Rupert Mayer

Description: (Catholic priest)
German Catholic priest Rupert Mayer is remembered for his lifelong opposition to Nazism. He had been an army chaplain during World War I and had earned the nickname The Limping Priest after losing a leg to a grenade attack. The Nazis had sent him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

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Birthday January 23, 1876 (Aquarius)
Born In Stuttgart, Germany
Died on November 1, 1945
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