Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany was a component of German resistance to Nazism and of Resistance during World War II. The role of the Catholic Church during the Nazi years remains a matter of much
Erich Klausener
Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster
Alfred Delp SJ
Konrad von Preysing of Berlin
Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was a speech delivered by Pope Pius XII over Vatican Radio on Christmas 1942. Towards the end of the lengthy speech occurs the sentence, "Mankind owes that vow t
Pope Pius XII in 1942, the year he delivered the address in which he denounced racial extermination
