THE PRIEST BARRACKS Dachau, 1938-1045 by GUILLAUME ZELLER

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At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of the thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men in these barracks were Catholics–2,579 priests, monks, and seminarians from all over Europe. More than a third of these men died in the “priest block”. The story of these men is told in this riveting historical account. Both tragedies and magnificent gestures are chronicled here–from the terrifying forced march in 1942 to the heroic voluntary confinement of those dying of typhoid to the moving clandestine ordination of a young German deacon by a French bishop. This book sheds a new light on Hitler’s system of concentration camps and the intrinsic anti-Christian animus of Nazism. Paper.