Sunday, August 12, 1945. War, ripples of war, and impacts of war.
Fr. Karl Leisner died of tuberculosis after having been imprisoned in Dachau. He was beatified in 1996.
The number of German Catholic Priests that resisted the Nazis is really not appreciated. They were not alone, of course Evangelicals (Lutherans) did as well, but nonetheless their numbers are remarkable, and in some instance their resistances to the Nazis is astounding.
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