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To: Dumb_Ox

Hitler wasn't Catholic? That's indeed arguable if he was Catholic and he most likely simply used Christianity as a propaganda tool.


584 posted on 08/21/2006 4:28:08 PM PDT by Dante Alighieri
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To: Dante Alighieri
Hitler wasn't Catholic?

Correct, Hitler wasn't Catholic. He was a murdering Nazi son of a bitch. Nothing in Catholicism encourages, permits or sanctifies the wanton murder of human beings.

587 posted on 08/21/2006 5:12:26 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Dante Alighieri
Hitler wasn't Catholic? That's indeed arguable if he was Catholic and he most likely simply used Christianity as a propaganda tool.

Quite so.
You see, even though baptized and raised as a Catholic (as well as receiving Confirmation), Hitler just pretended to be Catholic. ;->


Hitler's SA (The Brown Shirts) attending and leaving church services.

Cardinal Michael Faulhaber marches between rows of SA men at a Nazi rally in Munich.

Hitler and the SA in front of the "Church of our Lady" Nuremberg 1928.

It wasn't a fluke. Hitler (now sans SA) in front of the same church, 1934.


The touching and emotional end of the rally in Vienna: "Let us pray..."


Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin celebrating Hitler's birthday April 20, 1939.
Thereafter, on each April 20, Cardinal Bertram of Berlin was to send "warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany" and added with "fervent prayers which the Catholics of Germany are sending to heaven on their altars."


Hitler as "best man" in the Catholic wedding ceremony of (then) Generalleutnant Hermann Göring and Emmy Sonnemann.
Conducted by Reichbishop Ludwig Müller at the Berlin Cathedral. -- The ceremony was broadcast live on radio.


Welcome Celebration for newly selected Bishop Konrad Graf von Preysing in the Sportpalast, Berlin, 8 Sept. 1935
(Note the Chi-Rho Cross to the right of the Nazi flag.)


Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII) signs the Concordat between Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 1933.

While the Reichsconcordate proscribed any active political participation by the priesthood. Some apparently didn't get the message ...


Undated photo of Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler.

Priests at a Catholic youth rally in the Berlin-Neukölln stadium in August 1933.


Bishop Friedrich Coch in Dresden, December 1933.

Not wishing to single out the Catholics, The party would create an amalgam of Lutherans and Protestants into a "German Christian" or Deutsche Christen (DC) church as a branch of the state.
On July 14, 1933, Hitler's government approves a new charter for the Protestant church. With massive intervention by the NSDAP, the church elections scheduled only a short time later result in a resounding victory for the "German Christians." Hitler himself appeals to all Protestant Christians in a radio speech on the eve of the election to vote for the "German Christians."
Of course, the Deutsche Christen had a strict policy to prevent "non-Aryans" from becoming ministers or religious teachers.


SA storm troopers with placards of the "German Christians," Berlin, July 1933.


Deutsche Christen (German Christians) on the march in front of the Berlin Cathedral.
(Note the flags with the Christian cross with the swastika in the middle)


Meeting of the German Christian Movement, Sportpalast, Berlin November 13, 1933.

Presidium of the German Christians, Berlin, November 13, 1933

And then :

While the Government is determined to carry through the political and moral purging of our public life, it is creating and insuring prerequisites for a truly religious life. The Government sees in both Christian confessions the most important factors [Protestant and Catholic] for the maintenance of our folkdom. It will respect agreements concluded between them and the States. However, it respects that its work will meet with a similar appreciation. The Government will treat all other denominations with equal objective justice. It can never condone, though, that belonging to a certain denomination or to a certain race might be regarded as a license to commit or tolerate crimes. The Government will devote its care to the sincere living together of Church and State.
-- Hitler's Speech at second meeting of the Reichstag of 1933, on 03 March 1933, asking for the adoption of the Enabling Act.

“You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
-- Hitler quoted by Albert Speer. Inside the Third Reich. 1970 p.96

Nope. Move along, nothing to see here.

646 posted on 08/22/2006 2:40:37 PM PDT by dread78645 (Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
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