Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to.

Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans.

We had two priests.

One of them, Father Adolf, was a very zealous and strenuous priest, much considered.
There may have been better priests, in some ways, than Father Adolf, but there was never one in our commune who was held in more solemn and awful respect.

This was because he had absolutely no fear of the Devil.