The stench of sizzling human flesh filled the furnaces of German crematoriums last week as they worked overtime on the bullet-riddled remains of men and women who died fortnight ago in Adolf Hitler's "blood purge" (TIME, July 9). No respect was paid to the fact that cremation is against Catholic tenets. Into the flames, despite the protests of grieving relatives, went the corpse of Dr. Erich Klausener, beloved leader of the Fatherland's Catholic Action Society. What Dr. Klausener had done to deserve death the State had not...
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