Article: German Catholic Church employed slave laborers


Ukrainian Weekly, The
10-15-2000
German Catholic Church employed slave laborers

COLOGNE, Germany - The German Catholic Church has admitted that it employed
slave laborers during the Nazi regime, reported the Catholic News Service
(CNS).

According to a recent television program aired in Germany, slave laborers
from Russia, Poland and Ukraine were employed in the farming operations of
a seminary in Westphalia and a convent and an abbey in Bavaria.

Teresa Majewska described how she was 9 years old when she and her whole
family were taken from Poland and forced to work at the Benedictine
monastery in Ettal.

CNS reported that Caritas, …

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