When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness.
Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish Catholic Church Under German Occupation that the persecution of the Church was most sev.
As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of Poland\'s population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious target of the Nazi regime\'s policies of ethnic, racial, and cultural Germanization.
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness