NAZI GERMANY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: THE TRUTH AT A GLANCE

The late, great, Catholic poet, Roy Campbell, knew the truth. And,as Campbell reminds us, Adolf Hitler knew the truth. It is a truth which, however obvious, seems to have eluded John Cornwell when he was fabricating his Hitler’s Pope. The truth known by Campbell and Hitler, but ignored studiously by Cornwell, is that the Nazi only came to power through the votes of Protestants, agnostics and atheists. Catholics were singularly unimpressed with the Aryan heresy and the promise of a Thousand Year Reich. The diagrams below show the obvious truth at a glance. Wherever there were most Catholics there were least votes for the Nazi Party; wherever there were least Catholics there were most votes for the Nazi Party.

If a picture paints a thousand words, these two simple diagrams unravel the thousands of deceiving words written by Cornwell and Goldhagen. The truth is plain to see; it takes a fool to ignore it and a charlatan to hide it. Eat your heart out, Cornwell; eat your heart out, Goldhagen!

Map 1: Distribution of
the Catholic population
in Germany
(According to the 1934 census)

Thank you for this. Such graphical evidence speaks more eloquently than all the argumentation I could provide.

I usually begin such discussions by citing the objective fact that the Chief Rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism after the war, and took Eugenio as his baptismal name, which was also Pius XII's baptismal name. I'm sure that Pius XI's letter Mit Brenneder Sorge, reputed to be inspired by the future Pius XII's experiences as nuncio in Berlin, had significant influence on German Catholics as well. And then there's the Jewish historian Pincus Lapide's evidence that the Catholic Church was responsible for saving the live of as many as 850,000 Jews. And that in addition to the 6 million Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust there were approximately 3 million Polish Catholics put to death in the camps, 1 million gypsies, and an additional million "others".

It's understandable how many pastors (including a few Catholic ones) would have looked to the Nazis as a counterpoint to Weimar decadence, as a way to return to traditional morality. It took a deeper analysis to see that the Nazis were not advocating Christian morality, but the "discipline" of neopagan Nietzschean nihilism.

The same depth of understanding was also necessary to see that Fascism was, in fact, more dangerous than Communism (against which the Nazis had aligned themselves), because the former could actually succeed, whereas the latter was bound to eventually fail because it failed to take into account the ontological nature of man. The Protestant rejection of the philosophia perenis did not serve them well in this respect.

You also have the Einstein quotations:

"Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...

Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."

The Catholic Church really got a bum rap off of this, but seeing our media and its backing of hacks like Cornwell, well, that's what you get.

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