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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
Catholics joining Hitler’s party. The ban on the party’s ideological orientation
naturally remained in force. The systematic infringement of the Concordat’s
decrees, the infringement of basic human rights, the euthanasia programme and
the holocaust against the Jews united the bishops in a decisive condemnation of
the Nazi regime’s ideology. The bishops also made an important contribution
to the contents of the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (1937) of Pope Pius XI. But
they differed in their way of expressing their protest against the criminal activities
of the Nazi party. The government simply ignored the numerous diplomatically
polished protest notes of Cardinal Bertram, while the public were not informed
about them at all. In their sermons and pastoral letters the Berlin bishop Konrad
von Preysing and the Münster bishop Clemens August von Galen publicly con-
demned the crimes of Hitler’s regime. The strictness of loyalty to the ruling
authorities, based on Paul’s Letter to the Romans, saying that every authority is
from God (13:1), Bishop Galen followed up with Peter’s words in The Acts of the
Apostles that regarding breaches of basic human rights “We must obey God
rather than any human authority” (5:29). Many Catholic priests paid with their
lives for giving active support and rescuing Jews. The same was true of Catholic
priests and lay people who were actively involved in subversive anti-Nazi resis-
tance. Unfortunately, during the Second World War the German Episcopal
Conference failed to be united in making a decisive public protest against the
crimes of Nazism, as it succeeded in doing after the war.
Prevod povzetkov v angleščino: Margaret Davis
Bibliografska obdelava: Alojz Cindrič
444
Catholics joining Hitler’s party. The ban on the party’s ideological orientation
naturally remained in force. The systematic infringement of the Concordat’s
decrees, the infringement of basic human rights, the euthanasia programme and
the holocaust against the Jews united the bishops in a decisive condemnation of
the Nazi regime’s ideology. The bishops also made an important contribution
to the contents of the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (1937) of Pope Pius XI. But
they differed in their way of expressing their protest against the criminal activities
of the Nazi party. The government simply ignored the numerous diplomatically
polished protest notes of Cardinal Bertram, while the public were not informed
about them at all. In their sermons and pastoral letters the Berlin bishop Konrad
von Preysing and the Münster bishop Clemens August von Galen publicly con-
demned the crimes of Hitler’s regime. The strictness of loyalty to the ruling
authorities, based on Paul’s Letter to the Romans, saying that every authority is
from God (13:1), Bishop Galen followed up with Peter’s words in The Acts of the
Apostles that regarding breaches of basic human rights “We must obey God
rather than any human authority” (5:29). Many Catholic priests paid with their
lives for giving active support and rescuing Jews. The same was true of Catholic
priests and lay people who were actively involved in subversive anti-Nazi resis-
tance. Unfortunately, during the Second World War the German Episcopal
Conference failed to be united in making a decisive public protest against the
crimes of Nazism, as it succeeded in doing after the war.
Prevod povzetkov v angleščino: Margaret Davis
Bibliografska obdelava: Alojz Cindrič
444
