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Documents Reveal Nazi Plans for Destruction of Churches After WarBy MAX JORDAN(By N. C. W. C. News Service)BERLIN.—That the Hitler regime had planned to destroy the Christian churches, had it won the war, is conclusively revealed in documents discovered in the files of the former Nazi propaganda department. As far back as 1941. these documents show, only wartime expediency was preventing action aimed at total eradication of Christianity.In the summer of 1941 sermons by the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen, Bishop of Mucnster in Westphalia, protesting publicly against the so-called mercy-killings” of the insane and other Nazi crimes, had met with a widespread response among German Catholics and Protestants. A propaganda department official had suggested on August 12 of that year that the Bishop be hanged. but Dr. Joseoh Goebbcls turn-
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Sat, Dec 22, 1945

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