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Extracts from an encyclical, on religious conflict in Germany and the German government's violations of the 1933 Concordat with the Vatican
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Authors
Pius XI (Pope (Achille Ratti))
Pius XI
pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939
- Born: 1857-05-31 (Desio) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia)
- Died: 1939-02-10 (Vatican City)
- Country of citizenship: Kingdom of Italy (period: 1861-03-17 through 1939-02-10)
- Occupation: Latin Catholic priest (since: 1879-12-20); librarian; mountaineer
- Participant in: 1922 papal conclave
- Position held: Apostolic Nuncio to Poland (of: Poland; since: 1919-06-06); Catholic bishop (since: 1919-10-28); Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan (diocese: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan; period: 1921-06-13 through 1922-02-06; replaced by: Eugenio Tosi); cardinal (since: 1921-06-13)
- Educated at: Pontifical Gregorian University; Sapienza University of Rome
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/88598915
Date: 14 March 1937
Literal Title: Excerpt of the Papal Encyclical: "Mit Brennender Sorge" [With Burning Concern] on March 14, 1937 . . . [in] "The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich"
Defendant: Franz Papen, von
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3280
Document Book No: Prosecution 11 (von Papen)
Citations: IMT (page 3264), IMT (page 11942)
HLSL Item No.: 453483
Notes:The encyclical was issued on 14 March 1937; the book on persecution was published in London in 1942. For the Concordat, see document PS 3280A. Another copy of PS 3280 was entered as US exhibit 567. In the transcript at p. 3264, this extract is referred to as PS 3476, which is not in the document book; it is cited as PS 3280 at p. 11942.