1937 Letter Secretly Condemns Nazis

Mit brennender Sorge ("With Burning Concern") was a papal letter that was secretly smuggled into Nazi Germany and read aloud from every Catholic pulpit on Palm Sunday, 1937. It condemned the Reich government's violations of human dignity and religious freedom, subtly mocked Hitler as a "prophet of nothingness," and implied that even Heaven was laughing at his delusions of grandeur.

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