And what are we to think of seeing priests giving the Heil Hitler sign?????
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“And what are we to think of seeing priests giving the Heil Hitler sign?????”
That they were German.
September 1933: German Protestant deacons meet in Hamburg to celebrate the centennial of their association. A Protestant pastor addresses his comrades in a speech entitled Deaconry as attack: "All this is Protestant deaconry: Service and fight. We greet you all as the SA of Jesus Christ and the SS of the Church, you brave ... [fighters] of need, misery, despair and dereliction." [KS57] After the war the swastika was removed from most of the photographs of the meeting. Only a few survived unaltered, such as this one.
November 15, 1933: More than a thousand Lutheran nuns, meet under the swastika. The Bishop of Berlin in his speech: "Permit me to compare our sisters with the SA!" (a paramilitary Nazi troop). (Though it may be coincidental, even the layout of this meeting, at least on this photograph, seems to resemble a huge swastika.
We're certainly not to believe our lying eyes.
You can let your imigination run wild or maybe Baptist minister Francis Bellamy can shed some light on your question.