Catholic Opposition

• The Nazis broke their Concordat with the Catholic Church. They harassed and arrested priests, closed Catholic schools

  and banned Catholic youth organisations.
• Around 400 Catholic priests were arrested for speaking out against Nazi policy. They were imprisoned in the Priests’

  Block at Dachau concentration camp.
• In 1937, the pope spoke out against the Nazis in his statement known as ‘With Burning Anxiety’. This was read in all

  Catholic Churches in the country.