[Uncle Chip]

Also, the CCP was Catholic in name only, and had already given its votes to Hitler at the time the Enabling Legislation was passed, well before the Concordat was signed. The Concordat had absolutely nothing to do with the surrender of the CCP to Hitler.

That's not so. The dismantling of the CCP was a precondition of the Concordat. It was part of the deal. Here is what Time Magazine said about the deal back in 1933 when it happened:

"Before the initialing took place German Catholics were forced to bow the political knee to Adolf Hitler, hoping all the while that the concordat would safeguard their religious rights. As a peace offering to the Nazis, they dissolved their Catholic Centre Party, the Party which fought Prince Bismarck so stoutly three generations ago." [Time magazine link at post #188]

Had the CCP not been dismantled, there would have been no Concordat of 1933. The deputies dismantled the party as a prerequisite for the Concordat.

[AnAmericanMother]

False. That was rumored (thanks to Time) but after the war it became clear that the CCP was working on its own.

Time, anticlerical as always, hoped it was true.