Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber gained an early reputation as a critic of the Nazi movement . Soon after the Nazi takeover , his three Advent sermons of 1933 , entitled '' Judaism , Christianity , and Germany '' , affirmed the Jewish origins of the Christian religion , the continuity of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible , and the importance of the Christian tradition to Germany . Though Faulhaber 's words were cautiously framed as a discussion of '' historical '' Judaism , his sermons denounced the Nazi extremists who were calling for the Bible to be purged of the " Jewish " Old Testament as a grave threat to Christianity : in seeking to adhere to the central tenet of Nazism , " The anti-Semitic zealots ... " wrote Hamerow , were also undermining " the basis of Catholicism . Neither accommodation , nor acquiescence was possible any longer ; the cardinal had to face the enemy head on . " During the 1938 '' Kristallnacht '' pogrom , Faulhaber supplied a truck to rabbi of the Ohel Yaakov Synagogue , to rescue sacred objects before the building was torn down . Following mass demonstrations against Jews and Catholics , a Nazi mob attacked Faulhaber 's palace , and smashed its windows
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Rescue of Jews by Catholics during the Holocaust