By Guillaume Zeller
ISBN-10: 162164099X
ISBN-13: 9781621640998
At the Nazi focus camp Dachau, 3 barracks out of thirty have been occupied via clergy from 1938 to 1945. The vast majority of the 2,720 males imprisoned in those barracks have been Catholics—2,579 clergymen, priests, and seminarians from all over the place Europe. greater than a 3rd of the prisoners within the "priest block" died there.
The tale of those males, which has been submerged within the total heritage of the focus camps, is advised during this riveting historic account. either tragedies and luxurious gestures are chronicled here--from the terrifying compelled march in 1942 to the heroic voluntary confinement of these demise of typhoid to the relocating clandestine ordination of a tender German deacon via a French bishop. along with recounting relocating episodes, the ebook sheds new mild on Hitler's approach of focus camps and the intrinsic anti-Christian animus of Nazism.
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