Cardinal Faulhaber letter
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Aloysious K. Quinn
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The letter was written by Cardinal Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich on May 1, 1945, Munich, Germany. It was received by Aloysious Quinn. In 1996, Aloysious Quinn donated the letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Scope and Content
The Cardinal Faulhaber letter was written by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and addressed to the administration of Dachau concentration camp requesting the release of clergymen imprisoned within the camp. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber (1869-1952) was a German cardinal and archbishop of Munich, Germany who was a prominent opponent of the Nazis.
System of Arrangement
The Cardinal Faulhaber letter is arranged in a single series.
People
- von Faulhaber, Michael, 1869-1952.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei--Administration.
- Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Dachau (Germany)
- Clergy.
- Munich (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Letter.