Seventy years ago today German Jesuit Alfred Delp was executed by the Nazi state in the final few months just
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Alfred Delp S.J. |
before Nazi Germany fell to the Allied troops in 1945. Delp is considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism.
Here is a reading of his final letter before his execution … 70 years ago today. … “Here I am at the parting of the ways, and I must take the other road after all. The death sentence has been passed… (Click on the link for a reading of Delp’s gripping final letter.)