Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@anamariecox In 1940–45 at least 464 priests, seminarians, and monks, and 35 nuns were deported to Auschwitz from Poland and other countries of the occupied Europe: France, Czechia, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany. Most of them lost their lives. Many more were murdered in other camps. x.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1520040373577523200

A copy of the letter of 22 September 1939 to the Minister of Church Affairs, Hanns Kerrl, signed by Doctor Wilhelm Stuckart, Secretary of State at the Reich Ministry of the Interior. The letter presents decisions made four days earlier at a session of the Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich concerning Polish Catholic clergy. It emphasises the powerful position and major influence they enjoyed, together with teachers, in the Polish society. That is why it was recommended that, especially in the bilingual areas, Polish priests should be replaced by German ones.
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A copy of the letter of 22 September 1939 to the Minister of Church Affairs, Hanns Kerrl, signed by Doctor Wilhelm Stuckart, Secretary of State at the Reich Ministry of the Interior. The letter presents decisions made four days earlier at a session of the Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich concerning Polish Catholic clergy. It emphasises the powerful position and major influence they enjoyed, together with teachers, in the Polish society. That is why it was recommended that, especially in the bilingual areas, Polish priests should be replaced by German ones.