Wilhelm Peterlechner sent the two-page handwritten text to the KU’s “Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter Institute” in Jägerstätter’s birthplace of St. Radegund (Braunau district) in September 2021. He came across it by chance while researching a court chronicle in a family’s private estate.
It could be one of the last texts written by the Innviertel resistance fighter Jägerstätter before he was arrested by the Nazi regime on March 2, 1943. In it he discusses when and how his trains of thought intertwined in such a way that it became clear to him that conscientious objection was morally correct and what role his faith played in this.
Jägerstätter was executed on August 9, 1943. His widow Franziska Jägerstätter supported his legacy. Franz Jägerstätter was beatified in October 2007.
Source: Nachrichten
