Now that Hitler has the Catholics, he pursues the Protestants. He consolidates the various splinters into a single Reichskirche—Reich church—and recommends the appointment of a somewhat obscure, fiercely anti-Semitic pastor as bishop. On September 27, 1933, by a unanimous vote at a meeting of the National Synod, the church leadership approves Bishop Ludwig Müller, a man who wears a cross on his breast and a swastika in his heart.
