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The true WW2 story of Sister Maria Restituta, the Catholic nurse executed by the Nazis for defying the Gestapo.

In Nazi-occupied Austria, Sister Maria Restituta Kafka was a hospital nurse who refused to remove crucifixes from patient rooms, openly defied Reich orders, and mocked Hitler’s regime through acts of conscience. Arrested by the Gestapo, she was charged with treason and condemned to death by the Nazi People’s Court.

This true war story reveals how a Franciscan nun used her faith as resistance—choosing obedience to God over obedience to the state. Despite imprisonment, interrogation, and a death sentence, Sister Restituta never recanted. At dawn on March 30, 1943, she was executed by guillotine in Vienna, forgiving her executioner moments before her death.

Documented in court records, Church archives, and postwar testimony, her story stands as a powerful account of WW2 faith, Christian resistance, and moral courage under totalitarian rule. Beatified by the Catholic Church in 1998, Sister Restituta remains a witness to the cost of conscience when faith is treated as a crime.
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