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                            ADF                             
                                                            
 
 
opponent in war has caused us during the past week, and yesterday, on July 12,  
1941, the secret Police took possession of the two settlements of the Society  
of Jesus, the Jesuit Order in our town, Haus Sentmaring on the Weselerstrasse,  
and the Ignatiushaus in the Konigstrasse, drove the inmates out of their   
property, forced the priests and brothers immediately on the same day to leave  
not only our town, but also the provinces of Westphalia and Rhineland.  And  
the same hard fate was yesterday imposed also on the Sisters in the   
Steinfurtherstrasse.  Their house too was confiscated and they must leave  
Westphalia and Munster by 6 this evening.  The houses and properties of the  
 inventory were taken over for the "Gauleitung" of Northern 
 
                                                            
 
 
So now the storming of the monasteries, which has already raged long in   
the Ostmark, in South Germany, in the newly acquired territories, in the  
Warthegau, in Luxemburg, in Lorraine and in other parts of the counrty, has  
broken out here in Westphalia.  We must expect such alarming items of news  
to pile up in the next few days, when one monastery after another is confiscated  
by the Gestapo, when its inmates, our brothers and sisters, children of our  
families, faithful German citizens, are thrown into the streets like worthless  
rascals, chased from the country like criminals, and at that time when all   
the trembles before new night attacks which kill us all, which can make every  
one of us homeless refugees; then innocent, highly respected men and women   
beloved by many are driven out of their modest possessions, and German citizens,  
 fellow townsmen in Munster, are turned into homeless refuge
 
                                                            
 
 
Why?  I was told: for state-political reasons|  No further reasons were  
            given.  Not one inhabitant of these