There is little information about Heilige-Geist-Kirche during the Nazi regime. One publication says that church resistance developed slowly here and soon tailed off. In 1939, there was an ‘emergency congregation’, but only one percent of the nearly 17,000 congregation members joined the Confessing Church, which gave Protestant Christians one option for resistance. They were attended by pastor Birk. The situation was different at St. Johanniskirche, which is unfortunately not on our route, where there was active resistance. Parishioners hid political dissidents and Jewish people. Pastor Hellmuth Hitzigrath even went to prison for a short time because of his illegal activities.