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Pope Pius Attacks Nazi Sterilization Program in Christmas Speech

December 26, 1933
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Before the College of Cardinals and the Roman prelates at his annual Christmas address today, Pope Pius severely criticized the sterilization program of Germany. Expressing anxiety for the future, he felt the world was enveloped in a cloud of “conflicts and contradictions.”

The Pope pointed out, in his Vatican City address, in scoring the Nazi sterilization order, that it

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