Difficult reading - Clergy in Dachau

Doc Farrell

Well, I've been reading a lot of William J O'Malley who writes very readable books. Anyway one of his pieces is called 'Catholic priests in Dachau' which also lists clergy of other denominations.
It makes for difficult reading. But I believe these records are very important.

http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/06/15/catholic-priests-of-dachau/

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Dachauscrapbook/KZDachau/DachauLife3.html

I understand if these kinds of historical records are not to everyone's tastes but if one makes a statement about history then it's best to be informed.

Benny_Cake

Great post, Bernhard Lichtenberg is a personal hero of mine, as is Dietrich Bonhoeffer(who was at Flossenberg) . The fact is that European Christians could have done more to oppose the Nazis, but that to me makes the individual Christians who spoke out all the more heroic. We should never forget them.

qrrgprgua

Many Protestant clergy stood side by side with Catholic Clergy and died for this.

I live in eastern europe for a number of years... You don't have to dig far to hear the stories

Sad reality and its absolutely no judgement against protestant clergy, is that while many protestant clergy did not agree with Nazi policies they had an additional factor of their family wife/Kids to consider. Very hard times for all. However some did stand up for what was right.. But paid a heavy price.

In Poland Thousands of Priests were killed by the Nazi's/Soviets.