That summer, the conflict between Church and Party ran out of control in Bavaria, almost entirely thanks to the efforts of Adolf Wagner, the Bavarian Minister for Education and Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria. Here the state takeover of Church lands and buildings disturbed an intense, local sense of sacred landscape and inherited order. Next Catholic journals, nurseries and, above all, education became targets for secularisation. Things came to a head when Wagner issued a decree that crucifixes and Christian pictures be removed from schools during the summer holidays. For hardliners like
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