Every year o­n August 9 the small parish of St. Radegund and Pax Christi Austria organise the commemoration day for Franz Jaegerstaetter, a native farmer of St. Radegund, who during Nazi reign refused to fight in the German Wehrmacht and, consequently, was executed in Brandenburg/Havel o­n August 9, 1943.

Franz Jägerstätter – Christian and Martyr
with original handwritten excerpts from his letters and notes
Published by the Bishop’s Secretariat of the
Diocese of Linz, Austria

The German Resistance Memorial Center Berlin shows a new exhibition about Franz Jägerstätter.

These writings, including the correspondence between Franz and his wife Franziska and a series of reflections written in prison, represent the first complete English translation of his writings.

Commemoration plans of Franz Jägerstätter o­n 21 May 2009 in Linz and Gmunden.