Publication details
Gestapo proti katolické církvi. Zásah vůči opatství augustiniánů na Starém Brně a následné soudní spory
| Title in English | Gestapo versus the Catholic Church. Action against Augustinian Abbey in Staré Brno and the subsequent litigation |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Securitas Imperii |
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| Description | The study deals with persecution of the Catholic Church in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia using the example the Nazi secret state police (Gestapo) action against the Augustinian monastery in Staré Brno in 1943. In the introduction the author briefly describes the position of Catholics in Nazi Germany and the occupied countries. Next he introduces the Augustinian order ant their activities in Brno from the Middle Ages to WWII. The core of the study is dedicated to the circumstances of the Gestapo action, it introduces the individual people involved, including their role in the whole case. The author drew primarily on sources from the collections of the Moravian Land Archive in Brno and the history department of the Moravian Museum in Brno. |