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Jewish Prayers Cause Arrest Catholic Priest' BERLIN — P— Reliable quarters said Saturday that the Rev. Bernhard L ichtcnbcrg, Provost lt;Dean) of Berlin’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, St. Hedwig's had been arrested bv Nazi authorities, ac-wcused, among other charges, of offering prayers for Jews.Intensive Nazi measures against Jews have been renewed recently and tens of thousands are being transported east.The elderly Provost was known to have been called to German secret lolice headquarters previously. Thatoccasion was last summer when he was questioned about sermons he delivered in support of criticismwhich the Rev. Count Clemens August Von Galen, Roman Catholic Bishop of Muenster, directed against the Nazis and the Gestapo in particular last July.Reliable sources said he was being held in the Ploetzensee prison in northwestern Berlin.A prominent Catholic figure in Berlin, the head of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral sometimes represents the Bishop at public fhnctions.
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