The Only German Bishop Who Publicly Defied Hitler in His Sermons — The Lion of Münster

Beneath the Medal - War Stories

In 1941, at the height of Nazi power, when speaking against Hitler meant certain death, one German bishop climbed to his pulpit and did the impossible. Bishop Clemens August von Galen publicly condemned the regime's euthanasia program by name, with Gestapo agents sitting in the pews. What happened n