Cardinal Pacelli sends a total of ten diplomatic protest notes to the German Government - May and early June 1934
Source: Timeline
May and early June 1934 Cardinal Pacelli sends a total of ten diplomatic protest notes to the German Government.
Summary of diplomatic notes May 4 through June 14
May and June 1934 Diplomatic notes from Cardinal Pacelli to the German Government:
May 4: Protesting the order of a Nazi district leader prohibiting and dissolving Catholic youth associations.
May 8: Protesting delays in the negotiations over Art. 31 and Catholic associations.
May 9: Protesting pressures on students to engage in swordfights and duels.
May 9: Protesting pressures on Catholic theology faculties and students. Ibid.
May 14: Inquiry concerning reports that the head of the SA has forbidden SA members to take part in “church-political demonstrations.”
May 14: Lengthy protest as to lack of progress in negotiations about Catholic associations, pressures on Catholic youth, promotion of Nazi neo-pagan religion, and various attacks on the Catholic religion, together with response as to German Bishops’ resistance to swastika.
May 31, 1934: Protesting a unilateral Prussian state decision concerning a university theological faculty, which affected Catholic seminarians studying for the priesthood at the state university and Catholic priests on the university’s theology faculty.
June 1, 1934: Protesting reductions of state subsidies for Catholic philosophy and theology faculties in Bavarian state universities.
June 11, 1934: Protesting actions of the Munich police in banning the films “Rome the Eternal City” and “The Vatican in Art and History.”
June 12, 1934: Protesting propaganda against Archbishop Faulhaber of Munich (signed by Stempel, not Pacelli).
June 14, 1934: Following up the May 4, 1934 protest against a prohibition by a Nazi regional leader [Gauleiter] of Catholic youth organizations.
Source: Albrecht, Note Exchange, pp. 118-173.