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    Erich Klausener (25 January 1885 – 30 June 1934) was a German Catholic politician and Catholic martyr in the "Night of the Long Knives", a purge that...
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    disposed of his body by dumping it in a ditch. The Gestapo also murdered Erich Klausener, the leader of Catholic Action, and a close Papen associate. Papen...
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    Nazi Government to close its youth organisations. Probst, along with Erich Klausener (head of Catholic Action) and Fritz Gerlich (editor of Munich's Catholic...
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    in August 1946. In May 1953, he was convicted in the murder of Dr. Erich Klausener, head of Katholische Aktion (Catholic Action) group, during the "Night...
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    primary, a secondary (Realschule) and a high school (Gymnasium). The Erich Klausener Gymnasium has 723 pupils and 46 teachers. The secondary school has...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    targets of the 1934 Night of the Long Knives purge: Catholic Action head Erich Klausener, Papen speechwriter and adviser Edgar Jung (also a Catholic Action...
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  • Knives purge: those executed included the head of Catholic Action, Erich Klausener; Papen's speech writer and advisor Edgar Jung (also a Catholic Action...
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    Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning looked for a way to oust Hitler. Erich Klausener, an influential civil servant and president of Berlin's Catholic Action...
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    smuggling or "immorality". In Hitler's Night of the Long Knives purge, Erich Klausener, the head of Catholic Action, was assassinated. Adalbert Probst, national...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    assistance of Papen's secretary Herbert von Bose and Catholic leader Erich Klausener, and Papen had first seen the text of the speech only two hours before...
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    Jung, with assistance from Papen's secretary Herbert von Bose and Erich Klausener. It was delivered in an auditorium in the "Alte Universität," one of...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Former aviation head Ernst Brandenburg took over Motor Transport and Erich Klausener was appointed Director of Maritime Shipping. The RVM remained sidelined...
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  • Voters were outraged by the killings of two prominent Catholic leaders, Erich Klausener and Adalbert Probst, in the Night of the Long Knives. A requiem mass...
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    ASSO Michael Kitzelmann (1916–1942), Lieutenant in the Wehrmacht Erich Klausener (1885–1934), Zentrumspartei, Catholic church Reinhold Kleinlein [de]...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    most infamous NKVD agent who served in the Republican death squads was Erich Mielke, who later became the widely detested head of East Germany's secret...
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  • Lichtenberg's encouragement of Catholics to view a screening of the film version of Erich Maria Remarques' anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front prompted...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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    Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl Leisner Erich Klausener Kulturkampf China Martyr Saints of China Auguste Chapdelaine Persecution...
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