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Shortly before World War II, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist, swallowed by Nazi expansion. Its territory was divided into the mainly Czech Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the newly declared Slovak Republic, while a considerable part of Czechoslovakia was directly joined to the Third Reich (Hungary and Poland also annexed areas).
Of a total of 2,720 clerics recorded as imprisoned at Dachau some 2,579 (or 94.88%) were Roman Catholics. 1,034 Catholic priests died there. The remaining 1,545 priests were liberated by the allies on April 29, 1945. [76] Among the Catholic clergy who died at Dachau were many of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II. [77]
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 ...
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 ...
Hugh O'Flaherty CBE (28 February 1898 – 30 October 1963) was an Irish Catholic priest, a senior official of the Roman Curia and a significant figure in the Catholic resistance to Nazism. During the Second World War , O'Flaherty was responsible for saving 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews .
Among the priest-martyrs killed at Dachau were many of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II. [146] Gerhard Hirschfelder died of hunger and illness in 1942. [ 147 ] Titus Brandsma , a Dutch Carmelite, was murdered by a lethal injection in 1942.
The Catholic Church had been a leading opponent of the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party through the 1920s and early 1930s. Upon taking power in 1933, and despite the Concordat it signed with the church promising the contrary, the Nazi Government of Adolf Hitler began suppressing the Catholic Church as part of an overall policy of to eliminate competing sources of authority.
This list concerns people who have been canonised or beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in connection with their actions during the era of Nazi Germany. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.