When he returned to Germany on his trip back from Palestine, he was in Regensburg from January to August 1842 and wrote "Ein Ruf aus der Wüste" ("A Cry out of the Wilderness") while there.

[8] This enabled a gradual increase in baptisms, with there being 280 LDS Church members in Germany in 1880 and conversions would average 300 a year over the next two decades.

While praising Hitler's oratory skill and approving of his unifying a politically divided country, they saw arrests of dissidents, enforcement of Nazi eugenics, and widespread fear of the regime.

The church hoped that accepting a request of missionaries coaching the Germany men's national basketball team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics would improve relations.

Speakers avoided criticizing the government or, after the German declaration of war against the United States, emphasizing the church's relationship with that country.

The government ordered the church to avoid preaching about "Jewish" topics like "Zion" and "Israel", so leaders told members to not sing hymns with such words.

[15] The Nuremberg Laws increased access to and interest in genealogical records, and some saw the monthly eintopf as similar to Fast Sunday, but mandatory Hitler Youth membership ended most Mormon auxiliary organizations for young people.

[15] A few church members openly opposed the regime—Helmuth Hübener ended up being beheaded for anti-Nazi activities[19] and his friend Karl-Heinz Schnibbe spent five years in a camp for his part[20]—but their actions were motivated by BBC news reports of German defeats, not by LDS teachings.

Hübener was the youngest opponent of Nazi Germany to be sentenced to death by the infamous Special People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) and executed.

[15] Following World War II, then Apostle Ezra Taft Benson arrived in Europe to organise aid for church members.