Word: oppeln
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priests, the letter declared, have been shadowed, menaced, tormented. Many have been jailed and sentenced to prison terms without trial. For refusing to sign the Communist-inspired Stockholm Peace Appeal more than 500 priests were barred from their classrooms. Seminary buildings at Wroclaw (Breslau), Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Opole (Oppeln) have been seized by the state. The religious press was being strangled by censorship. Religious instruction in more than 1,000 public schools ended when the schools were turned over to a Communist Association of Children's Friends...