Below the hill of Chartres, with its glorious Gothic tribute to the power of God, sprawls a drab and dirty token of modern manthe hutments and barbed wire of Prisoner of War Camp 501. Outwardly antithetical, camp and cathedral are both repositories of the same faith. Of the 5,000 German soldiers behind the wire, 450 are studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood under a prisoner-faculty of seven.
The abbé is tall, blond Father Franz Stock, prewar head of the German Catholic Church in Paris. During the Nazi occupation he served as priest in prisons and hospitals, and administered last rites to thousands...
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