That was a deal that Hitler made with the church, if I'm informed correctly. And it does royally p- off some Catholic lay people in Germany. I know because I have in-laws who are Catholic and married to Germans. The German state taxes are high enough, then along comes the Church with a fixed amount they deduct from you.
That was a deal that Hitler made with the church, if I'm informed correctly.
More correctly, that was a deal Hitler made with all the othr churches, EXCEPT the Catholic one. Pius wouldn't agree to having the state involved in the church which is why he had made a trease with Hitler. He effectively kept the Nazi's out of the church that way, fooling Hitler. That's why Hitler was P.O'ed with the catholics and raized and pilfered thousands of Churches and threw over 800 priests to die in labor camps.