Additional documents

about the Lübeck Martyrs

Documents from the live and the imprisonment of the Lübeck Martyrs are listed and commented as some examples.

• Waltraut Kienitz about Corpus Christi on 12 June 1941

  Visit of Pastor Stellbrink at Corpus Christi

  Waltraut Kienitz is the youngest daughter of Karl Friedrich Stellbrink and Hildegard Stellbrink. In the movie „Widerstehen im Geiste Christi“ (To resist in Christ's spirit) by Jürgen Hobrecht she remembers Corpus Christi 1941.

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• Questioning of 9 April 1942

  Protocol of Pastor Stellbrink's questioning

  The hearing protocol of the Gestapo, border police commissioners, originated on April 9, 1941, according to spoken statements of Karl Friedrich Stellbrink’s. It is not to be concluded anymore to which degree force was involved, tactical approaches of Stellbrink's influenced the statements, the text wrongly represented the spoken, or statements were omitted.

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• Letter of 5 March 1943

  Bishop Berning to Hermann Lange

  The bishop of Osnabrück, Dr. Wilhelm Berning, writes a letter with words of comfort and encouragement to imprisoned vicar Hermann Lange.

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