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In the post-war period, false identification documents were given to many German war criminals by Catholic priests such as Alois Hudal, frequently facilitating their escape to South America. Both Protestant and Catholic clergy routinely provided Persilschein or "soap certificates" to former Nazis in order to remove the "Nazi taint"; [ 10 ] but ...
In all, an estimated one third of German priests faced some form of reprisal in Nazi Germany and 400 German priests were sent to the dedicated Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp. Of the 2,720 clergy imprisoned at Dachau from Germany and occupied territories, 2,579 (or 94.88%) were Catholic.
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]
Prisoner's Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp.. Dachau was established in March 1933 as the first Nazi Concentration Camp.Dachau was chiefly a political camp, rather than an extermination camp, but of around 160,000 prisoners sent to its main camp, over 32,000 were either executed or died of disease, malnutrition or brutalization.
Bernhard Lichtenberg – German Roman Catholic priest, was sent to Dachau but died on his way there in 1943; Henryk Malak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, who wrote a memoir, Shavelings in Death Camps: A Polish Priest's Memoir of Imprisonment by the Nazis, 1939-1945, published in 2012. Martin Niemöller, imprisoned in 1941, liberated 4 May 1945
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 .
Hans B. Schmidt (1881 [1] – February 18, 1916) was a German Catholic priest, rapist, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer. He was executed by way of the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York State for murdering and dismembering a pregnant woman in the United States.
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 ...