Albanus Schachleiter
German Benedictine monk, friend of Adolf Hitler
Reverend Albanus Schachleiter (January 20, 1861 – June 20, 1937) was a German Benedictine monk and abbot emeritus of the Prague Emmaus Monastery.
Life
changeSchachleiter, a Catholic monk from Mainz, was a close friend of Adolf Hitler,[1] the leader of Germany responsible for World War II and the Holocaust which killed at least 6,000,000 Jews (67% European Jews).[2]
Death
changeSchachleiter died on 20 June 1937 at Feilnbach in Upper Bavaria. Hitler ordered a state funeral for him.[1]
Related pages
changeReferences
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- "EX-ABBOT SCHACHLEITER; State Funeral Ordered for Nazi Supporter by Hitler". The New York Times. June 21, 1937. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
- Doino Jr., William (2008). "Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism". First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (187). Institute on Religion and Public Life: 61–63. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- Brown-Fleming, Suzanne (2014). "Real-Time Narrative Responses to Nazism: March/April 1933 in Germany and Rome". Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte. 27 (1): 120–136. doi:10.13109/kize.2014.27.1.120. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- Rossi, Lauren Faulkner (2015). Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674286382-intro. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
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- Shapiro, P.A. (2007). "Faith, murder, resurrection: The Iron Guard and the Romanian Orthodox Church". Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253116741. OCLC 191071016. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
- Laqueur, Walter (July 30, 2009). "Towards the Holocaust". The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780195341218. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
- "Deportation of Hungarian Jews". Timeline of Events. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Archived from the original on 25 November 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- Brosnan, Matt (12 June 2018). "What Was The Holocaust?". Imperial War Museum. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- "36 Questions About the Holocaust". Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles. Retrieved 2024-10-14.