Text transcribed from caption: #810 BERLIN COUNSELLOR FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC INTEREST Father Peter Buchholz is the Counsellor [sic. Councillor] for Roman Catholic interests and chairman of the Office for Church Affairs of the Berlin city government. For twenty years he was chaplain at the Plotzensee Prison near Berlin. During the Nazi regime he ministered to over 1000 political prisoners who were sentenced to die by hanging. These included Catholics executed for the famous July 20 attempt on Hitler’s life. Father Buchholz and other Catholic clergymen in Berlin frequently wear ordinary street clothes when engaging in civil affairs. Credit Line Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-LM-11-26-5)

Turner. (photographer)

1945

still image

portraits

negatives

negative : black-and-white ; 4 x 5 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Buchholz, Peter.
Catholic Church--Clergy.
Catholic Church--Diplomatic service.

Church and state--Germany--Berlin.
Prison chaplains--Germany.
Christian leadership--Germany--Berlin.
World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.

Germany
Berlin.
Germany.
Berlin (Germany)
Europe--Germany--Schleswig-Holstein--Berlin

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. 810; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_810

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