Sankt Hedwigs-Kathedrale

This guide to Sankt Hedwigs-Kathedrale in Berlin traces Bernhard Lichtenberg, the cathedral's provost, who began publicly praying for persecuted Jews at evening services here after Kristallnacht in 1938 and kept doing so for three years. It reaches back to the church's improbable founding under Frederick the Great, who let Berlin's new Catholic subjects build a cathedral of their own despite Prussia's Protestant establishment. You'll hear about the Gestapo's response and the sentence a Berlin court handed down. Stand beneath the rebuilt dome, itself gutted by Allied bombs during the war.