Abstract
After the French Catholic propaganda work La Guerre Allemande et le Catholicisme (1915) with its interpretation of the war as an anti-Catholic Prussian aggression had appeared, the ‘spectacle’ of an open clash between the French episcopate, which had backed the book, and the German episcopate was narrowly avoided and the task of anti -propaganda delegated to a working group of Catholic theologians, philosophers, historians, and Centre Party politicians. As a historian of Christian art and as a specialist for the preservation of monuments, especially churches, Joseph Sauer had a central part to play, given the massive destruction of cultural heritage in Belgium and France by the German forces. In his long contribution to the German answer to La Guerre Allemand Sauer was able to draw on his first-hand-experiences.
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