The Cross and the Third Reich: Catholic Resistance in the Nazi Era / John Frain

The stories of these men and women, some distinguished in office but many simply ordinary Christians, rank alongside the tales of persecution from any other period of the Church's two thousand year history.

Contents include: An idea emerges; The path to peril; The early years: 'Co-ordination', Conflict, the Concordat; The Catholic Church and Hitler's Germany: 1939-45 -- Persecution intensifies; Cataclysm: 1939-45 and the fight for the faith; 'Heroic Vitrue': Individual opposition to Nazism; The Papacy in the Nazi era; and Reflections.