Word: hlond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This barrage was a counterbombardment. For the best-informed agency on Nazi treatment of German-occupied Poland (a land verboten to foreign correspondents) is the Catholic Church itself. And the Vatican's short-wave station had already broadcast penetrating reports of German persecution, compiled by Augustus Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, who had escaped to Rome 17 days after the invasion...
Said Cardinal Hlond, who in 1935 voluntarily renounced the State-levied taxes which had supported the Polish Church and who for years worked to heal German-Polish enmity: "In my archdiocese alone I have verified the fact that 18 priests were shot . . . without counting those who died in prison. . . . The churches are all closed with very few exceptions. . . . In the district of Znin for two months no Masses have been allowed to be celebrated. All the priests have been arrested and it is forbidden to administer any sacrament. . . . The Gestapo is the owner of the Church. . . . But the people have...
...agency best able to gather information on Nazi treatment of Poland is the Catholic Church. Last week the Vatican radio let go for three days running on this subject, later released a bloodcurdling, stomach-turning report on treatment of Poles prepared by Augustus Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, who escaped to Rome...
Large, powerfully built Cardinal Hlond, friend of Polish farmers and laborers, an educator with a liberal, modern tinge, had long worked to heal the age-old enmity of Germany and Poland. Excerpts from His Eminence's report to Pope Pius XII and the radio digest...