The Priest Barracks: Dachau 1938-1945

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 162164099X ISBN13: 9781621640998 Release Date: April 2017 Publisher: Ignatius Press Length: 280 Pages Weight: 0.65 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9" At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men imprisoned in these barracks were Catholics--2,579 priests, monks, and seminarians from all over Europe. More than a third of the prisoners in the priest block died there.The story of these men, which has been submerged in the overall history of the concentration camps, is told in this riveting historical account. Both tragedies and magnificent gestures are chronicled here--from the terrifying forced march in 1942 to the heroic voluntary confinement of those dying of typhoid to the moving clandestine ordination of a young German deacon by a French bishop. Besides recounting moving episodes, the book sheds new light on Hitle