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In the hushed corridors of Berlin's Bundesarchiv lies a dossier of some 500 pages compiled by the Nazi Party's intelligence agency — the Sicherheitsdienst, or SD — on an unlikely group: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The B. H. Roberts Foundation recently acquired and published this dossier which provides an unfiltered view into the regime's scrutiny of the faith under the Nazi regime between 1933 and November 1939, two months after the war began. Surveillance reports, police files, confiscated literature, and internal Nazi correspondence reveal the Nazi government's suspicion and disdain toward German Saints who, though law-abiding, most often carefully distanced themselves from Nazism.
