Word: paderborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruhr, Wehrmacht resistance was collapsing swiftly. U.S. Ninth and First Army units, driving from the north and the south, bisected the pocket at Hagen. Ruhr civilians had learned by the examples of ruined Dortmund and flattened Paderborn that to resist was to be destroyed. Essen (pop. 659,871) gave up with little struggle; the Yanks found hundreds of drunken civilians reeling in the streets...
Another rescued prelate, Polish-born Cardinal Hlond, was found in good health and spirits in a convent near Paderborn. Of his treatment by the Germans, he said only: "All is now forgotten; those are little personal things." Of German morale: "It is difficult to get any idea of the state of the German mind...
Archbishop Joseph Frings of Cologne and Bishop Laurenz Jaeger of Paderborn in Westphalia issued a pastoral letter warning their faithful against the Hitlerian campaign for more babies through forced marriages, or even no marriage at all. Noting a growth of free love, adultery and divorce, the prelates flatly denied the Nazi theory that virginity is "treason to the race," and attacked the Nazi teaching that "denies a great difference between men and animals...
...earlier pastoral letter the Archbishop of Cologne had got off a direct and public attack on Naziism: "The doctrine of the superman will not bring happiness and prosperity to men." It went unanswered. This week he joined with the Bishop of Paderborn in a denunciation of Nazi morality...