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...political stronghold was Bavaria, the most intensely Catholic part of the Reich. Last week on the Führer's orders Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner closed every Catholic public school in Bavaria, fired 670 teachers, secularized 966 schools. This was in flagrant violation of the Nazi Concordat with the Vatican (TIME, July 17, 1933 and ailing Pope Pius, attended by twelve cardinals, was reported to feel that an open diplomatic rupture between the Hooked-Cross (Swastika) and the Cross cannot be much longer avoided. Meanwhile the great bulk of German Protestants who, like the Catholics, are resisting...
...Catholic clergy were up in arms. Pastoral letters flew like autumn leaves protesting that the school campaign was a breach of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat (TIME, July 17, 1933). Hitler, however, had a trump card. He had long been lining up "evidence" to prove that German Catholic monasteries were hotbeds of immorality. In a climactic, triumphant effort to squelch Catholicism on Aryan soil he threw all the immorality trials into the courts at the same time. He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, that the Reich...
...Holy Father's encyclical" (TIME, March 29). Among the victims were reported such famed firms as Regensberg of Munich, Bachem of Cologne. The Pope was reported to have finished his "White Book," a stack of evidence to show that Hitler, not the Vatican, has violated the Vatican-Nazi Concordat. It looked as though the Church was campaigning in as big a way as the Third Reich...
Pope Pius' pastoral letter of last March, which took Germany sharply to task for persistent breaches of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat of 1933, had been answered by a rude peremptory note. Read the official resumé: "The Vatican applies to the new Germany, democratic and parliamentary standards which are not applicable...
...Angered by the Pope's charges that his concordat with the Reich had been violated, Nazis last week threatened to void or revise it. In Rome German diplomats boycotted Vatican Holy Week services...