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“From the very fist month of the occupation [in Poland], hundreds of priests were arrested and executed; Catholic intellectuals, both clerics and laics, were sent to the concentration camp at Oranienburg (Belt 71).” “Of five hundred priests in the diocese [Chelmno-Pelplin in Pomeranic, Poland], only twenty were still alive (Belt 72).” “A report sent to Rome concluded that out of two thousand priests a third were dead and that seven hundred were in prison (Belt 78).” “The Nazis in Poland alone murdered more than three million Catholics together with over three million Jews (Chao 7).” The Jewish community was not the only people under persecution by the Third Rich during the Second World War. “"The heaviest blow to humanity" he [Hitler] once said, "was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of Jews (Chao 7)."” Hitler wanted to extirpate the Catholic Church because he thought that Catholics and Jews were the source of every evil. Hitler wanted to create a national German Church that would be loyal to the Führer; the leader, Hitler himself. If this church had been created, then Hitler would have not had as much resistance and the ‘Final Solu