Nazis Archives

Bosnian church official defends Mass for victims of communist massacre

Jun 2, 2020

Bosnian church leaders defended their decision to hold a Mass for civilians and former soldiers slaughtered by victorious communist forces in Yugoslavia, despite international condemnations and domestic protests.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Catholic priests, nuns were among those killed by Nazis

May 10, 2020

The Nazis’ systematic persecution and genocide led to the deaths of 6 million Jews in Europe, but Catholic priests and nuns were also among their victims.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Bishops criticize actions of their predecessors in Nazi Germany

Apr 30, 2020

The Catholic bishops in Germany have marked the upcoming 75th anniversary of the end of World War II by issuing a statement criticizing the behavior of their predecessors under the Nazis.

By Catholic News Service

Vatican Radio was ‘positively aggressive’ in countering Nazi ‘fake news’ efforts, new book says

Feb 17, 2020

Nathan Morley’s ‘Radio Hitler: Nazi Airwaves in the Second World War’ – due to be published by Amberley in August – uses first-hand interviews, archives, diaries, letters and memoirs to examine Hitler’s radio and how it used ‘fake news’ to spread Nazi propaganda.

By Charles Collins

New research details Catholic inmates at Auschwitz

Jan 26, 2020

A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of the Nazi-run death camp’s liberation was marked in Israel and Poland.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Catholic publisher reissuing book with release of Jagerstatter biopic

Dec 22, 2019

With the release of a film biography of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, the conscientious objector who was martyred by the Nazis, Orbis Books is reissuing its 10-year-old collection of the Austrian farmer’s letters and other writings from prison.

By Mark Pattison