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According to Harry Schnitker, Kevin Spicer's Hitler's Priests found that about 0.5 per cent of German priests (138 of 42,000, including Austrian priests) could be considered Nazis. One of them was the academic theologian Karl Eschweiler , an opponent of the Weimar Republic, who was suspended from his priestly duties for writing Nazi pamphlets ...
The Cuncolim Massacre or Cuncolim Revolt was an incident that involved the massacre and mutilation of Jesuit priests and civilians by Hindu chieftains in the Portuguese Goa village of Cuncolim on Monday, 15 July 1583. The five priests along with one Portuguese civilian and 14 Goan Catholics were killed in the incident. [1]
Heydrich was a fanatical Nazi anti-Semite and anti-Catholic. One of the main architects of the Nazi Holocaust, he believed that Catholicism was a threat to the state. [57] He was assassinated by Czech commandos in Prague in 1942. [66] Hitler was angered by the co-operation between the church and the assassins who killed Heydrich. [67]
priest, member of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate: German resistance to Nazism: executed, Halle an der Saale (beheaded) Paul Schneider: 1897–1939: German: clergyman German resistance to Nazism: lethal injection, Buchenwald: Edith Stein: 1891–1942: German: Carmelite nun, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Catholic saint (born Jewish) Jewish: gas ...
They warned Catholics against Nazi racism and some dioceses banned membership of the Nazi Party, while the Catholic press criticized the Nazi movement. [13] Figures like Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, appalled by the totalitarianism, neopaganism, and racism of the Nazi movement, had contributed to the failure of the Nazi Munich Putsch of 1923 ...
Pages in category "Roman Catholic priests executed by Nazi Germany" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bernhard Stempfle (17 April 1882 in Munich – 1 July 1934) was a Roman Catholic priest and journalist. He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf. [1] [2] He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. Bernhard Stempfle in 1928.
Catholic bishops in Nazi Germany differed in their responses to the rise of Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust during the years 1933–1945. In the 1930s, the Episcopate of the Catholic Church of Germany comprised 6 Archbishops and 19 bishops while German Catholics comprised around one third of the population of Germany served by ...