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To: 2banana
Tens of thousands of Catholic priests were murdered in concentration camps.

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Just in Poland alone:

Similarly, in the German Extraordinary Pacification Campaign of 1940, some 15,000 Polish priests, teachers and political leaders were transported to Dachau , or shot in the Palmiry Forest.

http://www.asthma-drsprecace.com/paper.html

There have been several Saints made of priests who died in the concentration camps while bravely doing good deeds.


The claims you present here are greatly exagerated. I did a search on "Extraordinary Pacification". From what I read it looks that Germans vigorously persecuted Catholic clergy in the annexed territories.

From http://www.ushmm.org/education/resource/poles/poles.php?menu=/export/home/www/doc_root/education/foreducators/include/menu.txt&bgcolor=CD9544

The Roman Catholic Church was suppressed throughout Poland because historically it had led Polish nationalist forces fighting for Poland's independence from outside domination. The Germans treated the Church most harshly in the annexed regions, as they systematically closed churches there; most priests were either killed, imprisoned, or deported to the General Government. The Germans also closed seminaries and convents, persecuting monks and nuns. Between 1939 and 1945 an estimated 3,000 members of the Polish clergy were killed; of these, 1,992 died in concentration camps, 787 of them at Dachau.

3,000 sounds right, tens of thousands - bullsh*t.
109 posted on 03/22/2005 12:34:20 PM PST by chukcha
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To: chukcha
3,000 sounds right, tens of thousands - bullsh*t.

3,000 for Poland, then add the USSR, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, France, Norway, Holland, etc.

119 posted on 03/22/2005 3:27:05 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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