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How Catholics Resisted The Nazis Is Now Being Told

By MAX JORDAN Incontestable documentary evidence of the fearless struggle waged by the German Bishops and faithful against the Nazi regime has been published in Munich, in an 800-page volume called Cross and Swastika, prepared by Mgr. Neuhaeusler, who spent four years in a Nazi concentration camp.
The hook is prefaced by Cardinal Fauthaber, Archbishop of Munich. who throughout Hitler's reign was one of his most open Based on documents now revealed for the first time, the book presents in its first part the complete story of the Nazi persecution of the Church, and in its second illuminates the active organised resistance on the higher and lower levels, by the Pope, the Bishops, the clergy and the people, Illustrative of the diabolical methods used by the Nazis to undermine Christian influence in Germany and elsewhere are the following facts :
Guided tours arranged in Rome for German visitors to St. Peter's and the Vatican were used as an opportunity to spread slander against the Papacy.
The Nazi police in Munich complained to Cardinal Faulhaber because "he drove home too slowly " after a public procession, and accused him of doing so in order to stir up the people against the Government, A wire was installed in Munich Os/ER TO BACK PAGE




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