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The Reverend Alfred Delp SJ | |
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Died | 2 February 1945 Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany | (aged 37)
Occupation | Catholic priest |
Movement | Kreisau Circle |
Alfred Friedrich Delp SJ (German: [ˈal.fʁeːt ˈdɛlp] , 15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. A member of the inner Kreisau Circle resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism. Falsely implicated in the failed 1944 July Plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler, Delp was arrested and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1945.