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German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism (1878–1946)
Yes. , with persecution escalating in stages from the mid‑1930s and becoming markedly harsher during the war years. Historians locate important turning points around (legal and ideological assaults, p...
The Catholic Church’s response to Nazi persecution was complex and mixed: institutional leaders sometimes protested Nazi attacks on the Church and issued public condemnations (notably the 1937 encycli...
Between 1933 and 1945 the systematically sought to subordinate, co‑opt, marginalize and, in many cases, annihilate religious communities that conflicted with its racial and political ideology; it comb...