Bishop von Galen
Subtitle: German Catholicism and National Socialism
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780300092233
Subjects: Biography: historical; European history: Second World War; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; 20th century; Second World War, 1939-1945; Germany - History - Third Reich (1933-1945); Roman Catholic Church; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General; Religious; Biography & Autobiography / Religious; Galen, Clemens August; Europe - Germany; 1878-1946; Biography; Cardinals; Galen, Clemens August,; Germany; Graf von,
Description: "Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Munster from 1933 until his death in 1946, is renowned for his opposition to Nazism, most notably for his public preaching in 1941 against Hitler's euthanasia project to rid the country of sick, elderly, mentally retarded, and disabled Germans.

This provocative and revisionist biographical study of von Galen views him from a different perspective: as a complex figure who moved between dissent and complicity during the Nazi regime, opposing certain elements of National Socialism while choosing to remain silent on issues concerning discrimination, deportation, and the murder of Jews."--BOOK JACKET.