All Catholic weeklies in Britain today publish a report revealing that Cardinal Faulhaber, the leader of the Catholic Church in Germany, who has defied Hitler’s theories, arranged to have Torahs and other Jewish ritual objects from the Munich synagogue, which the Nazis burned down, safely stored in the Archiepiscopal Palace at Freising.
The report is published in reply to the charge made recently by the Archbishop of Canterbury that Catholics in Germany did not protest against the persecution of Jews and did not extend any aid to the persecuted Jews. It says that in 1938, while the Nazis were destroying synagogues throughout the Reich, the Chief Rabbi of Bavaria approached Cardinal Faulhaber with a plea that he help keep Jewish ritual articles out of the hands of the Nazis. When the Munich synagogue was set afire by the Nazis, Cardinal Faulhaber sent a special truck from Freising to Munich to salvage the holy objects from the flames and to bring them to safety, the statement reports.
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