Last Catholic Priest to Survive Dachau Concentration Camp Passes Away at Age 102

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Last Catholic Priest to Survive Dachau Concentration Camp Passes Away at Age 102

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 7:30am

“Scheipers is a fanatical proponent of the Catholic Church and thus likely to cause unrest among the population.”

 

The last Catholic Priest to survive the Nazi labor camp in Dachau passed away earlier this month. He was a few weeks away from his 103 birthday.

Imprisoned in 1940, Father Hermann Scheipers escaped in 1945 during a death march.

 

John Burger of Aleita has Father Scheipers’ story:

 

Dachau had a large population of priests: some 95% of the 2,720 clergymen imprisoned there were Catholic.

 

Father Scheipers died June 2 in Ochtrup in Münsterland, the same town where he was born on July 24, 1913.

 

His work among young people, soon after his ordination, drew the attention of the Nazis. An obituary at KNA, a German Catholic news agency, translated by Mark de Vries, noted:

 

Because he was sympathetic with Polish forced laborers, celebrated Mass with them and heard their confessions, he was arrested [in] October of 1940 and brought to Dachau five months later. His file, which he came across by chance, states the true reason for his arrest: “Scheipers is a fanatical proponent of the Catholic Church and thus likely to cause unrest among the population.”

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