During the Holocaust, members of the Catholic Church were involved in rescuing Jews from persecution in Nazi Germany. They lobbied Axis officials, provided false documents, and hid people in monasteri
Pope Pius XII held the position during World War II
Kristallnacht, shop damage in Magdeburg. Pope Pius XI joined Western leaders in condemning the pogrom. In response, the Nazis organised mass demonstrations against Catholics and Jews in Munich.
Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) served as Pius XI's diplomatic representative in Germany (1917–1929) and then as Vatican Secretary of State (1929–1939), during which period he delivered multiple denunciations of Nazi racial ideology.
Bishop Konrad von Preysing was Bishop of Berlin, the capital city of Nazi Germany. He provided aid to the city's Jews and had links to the German Resistance.
The Catholic Church, led by Popes Pius XI and Pius XII, confronted National Socialism from the rise of the Nazi Party through the Second World War. In the early 1930s, about one third of the German po
Information from Heinrich Maier's group was used by the Allies for Operation Crossbow against the V-2
Centre Party supporters before the 1930 federal election
Heinrich Brüning, chancellor from 1930 to 1932
Although Adolf Hitler was raised as a Catholic, he came to despise the religion.