Word: miinster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Germans who plotted against Hitler but also those who tried "to help his victims, or just to defend their beliefs." While the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches were both ingloriously compliant, many individual churchmen in particular were outspoken foes of the regime. Clemens Cardinal von Galen of Miinster denounced the Nazis' euthanasia program from the pulpit, halting, at least for a time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray for the Jews, Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, dean of Berlin's St. Hedwig Cathedral, was sent to his death...
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