Never in the course of history have so many priests, monks and seminarians been murdered in such a small area: 1,034 lost their lives.
How many people know that at the Nazi death camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were permanently occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945? Were their moral convictions, forged by the Gospel and the tradition of the Church, able to resist the perversion of values imposed by the SS? Beyond the personal journeys of which it is composed, the history of the priests at Dachau sheds new light on Hitler's system of concentration camps, on the intrinsic anti-Christian animus of Nazism and, beyond the strictly historical perspective, on faith and spiritual commitment.25" x 8" The story of these men is unrecognized, submerged in the overall history of the concentration camps. Some 2,579 priests, monks and Catholic seminarians from all over Europe were imprisoned there.