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Hello! I'm a Leaving Cert student, but I felt this would be better posted here then in the LC board, because I'd wager you lot will be better able to answer my question.

I'm looking at topics to base my research project on for my Leaving. I came across an interesting one, namely Clemens August Graf von Galen, who was a German Bishop who spoke out against the Nazi regime and brought about the end to the euthanasia program. However, I can't seem to find any good books about him, which would be a must for sources for the project. I've tried searching library databases and the internet but no luck. Is there any other ways of finding if there's any books in circulation about him?

Thanks for your help!
Nicole

Judgement Day

Try Abebooks.com - 80 titles listed here.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=Clemens+August+Graf+von+Galen&sts=t&x=53&y=15

pjproby

search Google books-quite a few references there too

hivizman

If you can find a copy, a good starting point is Chapter 5 of Michael Burleigh's The Third Reich: A New History (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), entitled " 'Extinguishing the Ideas of Yesterday': Eugenics and Euthanasia' ". This contains a few pages on von Galen. Burleigh's earlier book Death and Deliverance: Euthanasia in Germany c. 1900-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) is a little more detailed but doesn't add all that much on von Galen.

Much more detailed is Beth Griech-Polelle's Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), although she seems to suggest that von Galen was more of a "speaker" than a "doer", and hints that the euthanasia project was anyway winding down when von Galen began to speak. She also claims that von Galen said nothing about Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Anyway, good luck with this interesting project.