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To: vladimir998

“While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.”

“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”

Adolf Hitler


14 posted on 03/15/2008 10:48:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (http://www.fourfriedchickensandacoke.blogspot.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So you actually believe Hitler was Catholic because he said so even though he was murdering Catholic priests?

Hitler was NOT Catholic after his childhood. He simply manipulated people when he wanted to. And now, from the grave, he’s manipulated you too.


18 posted on 03/15/2008 10:53:33 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
From: PROTESTANT SUPPORT OF THE NAZI GOVERNMENT which has an interesting "red state/blue state" type graphic showing that Nazi support came primarily from rural Protestant areas:

During the Nazi regime, the Protestant Church in general supported Hitler. The Protestant clergymen who wound up as inmates at Dachau were those who were anti-Nazi, such as the Reverend Martin Niemöeller, one of the founders of the Confessional Church. Other Protestant ministers who were incarcerated in the Dachau concentration camp were Ernst Wilm and Kurt Scharf. Although there were far fewer Protestants who were persecuted by the Nazis than there were Catholics and Jews, Germany's Protestant Church has admitted using slave labour during World War II, and has pledged to pay compensation to Nazi victims. The admission came after revelations that Berlin church parishes set up a forced labour camp during the war, and used workers from mainly central and eastern Europe for tasks such as grave-digging. "This was complicity in a regime based on force and removed from the rule of law. We accept this guilt," said church council president Manfred Kock.

and

Let me conclude by quoting for the last time Mr. Peter F. Wiener "Throughout the Last war (WWI) and throughout the present one (WWII), the Germans have committed atrocities which are impossible to imagine by those who have merely read or heard about them. This is teaching hatred, but an undeniable though most unplasant fact. Not once in either war has any section of the Lutheran clergy protested -- such as have the churches of Norway and other occpied counties where the Gestapo is at least as strong as inside Germany. With the exception of a few refugee pastors in Britain, I do not know of any section of the German Protestant Confessional Church whose pastors have refused to preach, to serve, to ordain and bless the atrocities and horrors committed by the German armies and their leaders. These facts are unpleasant and horrible. I maintain that we can understand them and explain them only if we look at the dark figure from whom the German Lutheran clergy has for four centuries taken their orders: Martin Luther"

24 posted on 03/15/2008 11:06:17 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("...millions hate what they mistakenly think that the Catholic Church is." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Catholic Church helped Nazis escape to Argentina. One can find the information.

One of the most brutal killers of World War II, Ante Pavelic, hid in Via Giacoma Venezian No. 17-c, 2nd floor. He hid there under a false ID. while he was waiting for some fixed papers to excape to Argentina. He used a Vatican car SCV number plate when he was out and about from time to time.

Lieutenant Colonel Father Cecelja, look it up.

Father Draganovic worked closely with Bishop Ivan Bucko smuggling Nazis out of Europe after the war. Both knew Pope Pius very well. All knew about San Girolamo.

Even the CIA knew about the Rat Line.

448 posted on 03/15/2008 6:02:00 PM PDT by SQUID
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.”
- Albert Einstein:


534 posted on 03/15/2008 7:12:36 PM PDT by TradicalRC (Ferraro/Wright: democrat racism rears its ugly head.)
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