In November 1941 , a small group of German Catholic bishops drafted a pastoral letter that proposed to protest against hostile measures taken against the church by the Nazi regime . The proposed letter did n't mention the Jews . Saul Friedländer sees this lack of willingness to take a public stand to the growing awareness of the mass exterminations in the East as being calculated because Faulhaber recorded in a memo his thoughts as to the proposed letter contents and his belief that raising " the Jewish question " and other matters would hurt the reputation of the German people and its government . In his New Year 's Eve sermon in 1938 Faulhaber commented : " That is one advantage of our time ; in the highest office of the Reich we have the example of a simple and modest alcohol-and-nicotine-free way of life . " Also in 1938 the Nazis raided and turned upside down Faulhaber 's office . During Kristallnacht he provided the Chief Rabbi of Munich a truck to save the synagogue 's possessions before it was destroyed . Pinchas Lapide opined that Faulhaber " preached half-heartedly against the desecration of Jewish prayer-houses " and objects that the truck was only provided at the behest of the pope . Martin Rhonheimer , who , although he notes that Faulhaber " had long been known as a friend of the Jews " , wrote of Faulhaber 's Advent sermons : " It is clear that Faulhaber 's steadfast opposition to Nazi racial theories was never intended as a defence of post-Christian Jewry or of his Jewish fellow citizens against their persecutors . " Despite Rhonheimer and Lapide 's objection to the speeches as half-hearted , they nonetheless resulted in the arrival of uniformed Nazis at Faulhaber 's home , shouting " Take the traitor to Dachau ! " and breaking his shutters and window frames
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Michael von Faulhaber