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    Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von...
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    widespread. Church leaders who opposed it – chiefly the Catholic Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster and Protestant Bishop Theophil Wurm – were therefore...
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    Bernhard von Galen, prince-bishop of Münster during the Counter-Reformation. Clemens August Graf von Galen, better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, German...
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    Germany, during the Nazi era. In 1941, the Bishop of Münster, Clemens August von Galen, publicly denounced the Nazi “euthanasia” program in a sermon,...
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    congregants. They copied and distributed the anti-Nazi sermons of Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster. Then, following a March 28, 1942 RAF air raid, after...
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    The cathedral contains the tomb of former Bishop of Münster Clemens August Graf von Galen, who became a cardinal shortly before his death in 1946 and...
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  • of Münster, Clemens August von Galen) were therefore able to rouse widespread public opposition. On 6, 13 and 20 July 1941, Bishop von Galen spoke against...
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    Amid 1941 Catholic protests over Nazi euthanasia led by Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster, Hilfrich wrote to Franz Gürtner, the German Minister...
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    Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, (19 December 1935 – 19 May 1942) Clemens August von Galen, (22 February 1946 – 23 March 1946) Georges-François-Xavier-Marie...
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    transgressed on the ecclesiastical sphere. The bishop of Münster, Clemens August von Galen, had rallied to the nationalist cause at the outbreak of war in...
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    Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany (category Articles that may be too long from August 2016)
    . of 14 March 1937, read from all German Catholic pulpits. Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster, was typical of the many fearless Catholic...
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  • family Kinsky. Von Westphalen was the grandniece of Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen, who had been beatified by Pope John Paul II. Von Westphalen was...
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    the seminary in Munich, and was named Diocesan Youth Leader by Clemens August von Galen, Bishop of Münster. He spent six months in compulsory agricultural...
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    Paul, Mary Queen of the Rosary, Adolf Kolping, Arnold Janssen, Clemens August von Galen, Maximilian Kolbe). Other windows were designed by Weigmann in...
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  • German architect Clemens Krauss (1893–1954), Austrian conductor Clemens Rehbein (born 1992), German musician Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878–1946), German...
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    Westphalian noble family of Furstenberg, and Helene von Galen, daughter of Wilhelm Goswin Anton von Galen. His sister Maria Anna (1732–1788) was abbess in...
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    and provided leaflets including copies of the sermons of Bishop Clemens August von Galen, which he duplicated with the prelate Hermann Lange and chaplain...
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    congregants. They copied and distributed the anti-Nazi sermons of Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster. Then, following the 28 March 1942 RAF air raid, after...
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  • by clergymen (e.g. Joannes Baptista Sproll, Conrad Gröber and Clemens August von Galen and segments of the population, especially in the surroundings...
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    Figures like Bishops Clemens August Graf von Galen and Konrad von Preysing attempted to protect German priests from arrest. In Galen's famous 1941 anti-euthanasia...
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    copied and distributed the anti-Nazi sermons of the Catholic Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster. Then, following the RAF air raid on the city, after...
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    rights, the activities of Bishops such as Konrad von Preysing, Joseph Frings and Clemens August Graf von Galen came to form a coherent, systematic critique...
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    for the SS administration in Münster and Hamburg. In 1934, Bishop Clemens von Galen of Münster attacked the racist ideologies of the new regime, partly...
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  • Nazis remove crucifixes in schools. Catholic Bishop of Münster, Clemens von Galen, protests and public demonstrations follow. 1936 – Confessing Church...
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    Particular clerics stridently opposed Nazi crimes, as in Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen's 1941 sermons in which he expressed his opposition to the regime...
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    was also the year of the protest of the Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen. Sproll died in 1949 in Rottenburg am Neckar. Sproll initially...
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    gradually closed under Nazi pressure. The Jesuit-educated Bishop Clemens August von Galen's famous 1941 denunciations of Nazi euthanasia were partly motivated...
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    Aktion T4 (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from August 2017)
    summer of 1941, protests were led in Germany by the bishop of Münster, Clemens von Galen, whose intervention led to "the strongest, most explicit and most...
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    its site. Many members of the von Galen family served as members of the South Oldenburg Reichstag. Count Clemens August, who served as the bishop of Münster...
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    cathedral. After his return from Rome the newly appointed cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen celebrated on 17 March 1946 his first and only Pontifical High...
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