The First Sermon: We Demand Justice
Clemens von Galen
The transcript below is an English translation of a sermon delivered one Sunday morning at the Church of St. Lambert in Munster, Germany. Though it was the height of Nazi power in Germany, Bishop Clemen von Galen boldly and openly comdemned the Gestapo's tyranny and the arrests that were being made "for reasons of state policy."
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July 13, 1941 (almost 83 years ago)The transcript below is an English translation of a sermon delivered one Sunday morning at the Church of St. Lambert in Munster, Germany. Though it was the height of Nazi power in Germany, Bishop Clemen von Galen boldly and openly comdemned the Gestapo's tyranny and the arrests that were being ma...
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July 20, 1941 (almost 83 years ago)Bishop Clemens von Galen continues his open rebuke of Gestapo rule and Nazi philosophy, and exhorts his parish to remain steadfast in obeying the Lord, unretaliating yet unyielding.
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August 3, 1941 (almost 83 years ago)In this sermon, Bishop von Galen attacks the state's practice of euthanasia and condemns the Nazi doctrine that permits the murder of individuals deemed "unproductive' and of no use to the state.
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