Cardinal von Faulhaber ordered yellow armbands with the Star of David to be placed on all the statues of Christ and Mary throughout his Archdiocese. Cardinal von Faulhabers courageous actions infuriated Hitler and the Nazi leaders, but the Gestapo didnt dare remove the yellow armbands for fear of a Catholic uprising.
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If removing symbolic armbands from statues would have caused an uprising - why was there not an uprising? Far worse things happened than that.