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IS —(■)— A high Nazi official demanded the hanging of Cardinal-designate Count Clemens August Von Galen, the bishop of Muenster, in 1941. and Martin Bormann agreed a death sentence was “appropriate/’ secret papers of the missing Hitler deputy disclose.The demands were made after the bishop in a bitter denouncement of Nazi mercy killing;; tolaGerman mothers their woundedsons returning from the battlefields would be destroyed “like old horses gone lame, or old cows gone dry,’’ because they no longer were j productive.j The documents include letters and minutes of a conference between Bormann, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. and Walter Tiessler, official in the Nazi propaganda setup who proposed the hanging. The papers arrived here too late for use in the ; war crimes trial, in which Bor-1 mann is being tried in absentia.| “After a conference of minis-j ters. Dr. Goebbels discussed with me the sermon of the Bishop of) Muenster, said Tiessler's account I of the Aug. 13. 1941, meeting in! Berlin. “He could not say what jeffective measures could be taken at that moment ■ “I .explained to him that in my opinion there could be only one ef-1 fective measure, namely, ‘to hang j the bishop of Muenster and that | I already had informed ReichsleiterBormann accordingly.”A second and more insistent plea by Tiesler for the prelate’s execution brought this replav from Bormann: * jA death sentence certainly)would be appropriate. Considering! the state of the war. however, the! Fuehrer will hardly order such a measure.”Goebbels counselled restraint, pointing.out the position of power)held by the bishop in the commu-! nitv. and arguing that it would be better to wait until the war was! over to deal with the bishop and ! the entire Catholic church within the Reich, the documents disclosed.*Tiessler noted that Goebbels paid this tribute to the bishop:“The population of Muenster could be regarded as lost during j the -war if anything were done i against the bishop, and T fear that! one could safely include the whole of Westphalia.”
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Abilene Reporter News
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Sun, Jan 20, 1946
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