The current issue of the far-right free-sheet ‘Alive’ carries a number of unusual stories.
One such story is about Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans.
The Scholls and their friends formed the resistance group, The White Rose, which opposed the Hitler regime.
The Sholls were murdered by the German authorities in April 1943, two months after the significant defeat at Stalingrad.
The ‘Alive’ story uses a photo of a stamp depicting the Scholls.
But the stamp is a stamp of the Deutsche Reichspost, the postal service of the German Democratic Republic.
The German Democratic Republic was an ardent opposer of the Catholic Church. It imprisoned priests, harassed clergy, including the Dominicans in Leipzig, legalised abortion on demand.
The government of the GDR made it impossible for young children to be altar servers. It was close to impossible for active Catholics to study at university.
The GDR was an anti-Catholic dictatorship and the free-sheet ‘Alive’ shows off its stamps.
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I was at a cousin's funeral in St Kilian's, Kingswood, yesterday and was glad to see they were not peddling this pestilential publication.
They did, however, have a candle-lighting shrine to St Pope John Paul II whose sainthood is becoming more tarnished by the day.
Maybe a (very) modern version of a film on The Year of the Three Popes would be an interesting project?
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