Blahoslavený Clemens August hrabě von Galen byl německý šlechtic a kardinál, biskup münsterský . Byl jedním z nejostřejších a nejznámějších kritiků Hitlerova režimu v Německu, jeho ostrá protinacistická vystoupení mu vynesla přezdívku Lev z Münsteru či Vestfálský lev. Jeho bratrancem byl další hlasitý odpůrce Hitlerova režimu Konrad von Preysing, biskup berlínský, kterého papež Pius XII. po válce taktéž jmenoval kardinálem. Wikipedia
“And now go and serve your fatherland.”
von Galen, to the philosopher Josef Pieper when he went to say farewell to the bishop, having been drafted into the German army in 1943. Pieper remarked; I was somewhat baffled; it was a long time since I had heard such words, but on his lips they were by no means a mere pathetic cliché; he meant them in all seriousness;they were to be taken literally. See Beth A. Griech Polelle, Bishop Von Galen, p. 20.
The argument goes: they can no longer produce commodities, they are like an old machine that no longer works, they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame, they are like a cow which no longer gives milk.
Speech against Nazi euthanasia (August 3, 1941)
Speech against Nazi euthanasia (August 3, 1941)
