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To: Petrosius
Perhaps we should condemn the United States for supporting Hitler too because I can produce a picture of William Dodd (second person to the right of Hitler), the United States' ambassador to Germany standing with Hitler.

The US never signed a Reichskonkordat with Hitler. The Roman Catholic church did...

The signing of the Reichskonkordat on July 20, 1933 in Rome. (From left to right: German prelate Ludwig Kaas, German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Giuseppe Pizzardo, Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, Alfredo Ottaviani, and member of Reichsministerium des Inneren (Home Office) Rudolf Buttmann)
20 posted on 07/07/2010 8:32:29 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: TSgt

The concordat was an interstate agreement that regulated the affairs of the church in Germany. It did not give any support to the Nazi agenda. The UK and Germany signed the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in 1935. Such treaties do not imply support for Nazi regime but were agreements with what was then the lawful government of Germany. There was nothing nefarious about the concordat despite your wishes to the contrary.


46 posted on 07/07/2010 9:04:55 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: TSgt

You wrote:

“The US never signed a Reichskonkordat with Hitler. The Roman Catholic church did...”

What is that supposed to mean? The Church wanted to protect Catholics in Germany. If there were 35 million Americans living in Nazi Germany you can bet we would have signed a treaty with the Nazis to protect them. We already were selling them war supplies throughout the 1930s! This is from a lefty union, but they get the facts right: http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uen_nastybiz.html

Again, if there were 35 million Americans living in Nazi Germany you can bet we would have signed a treaty with the Nazis to protect them.


60 posted on 07/07/2010 9:25:36 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: TSgt

The Vatican signed a concordat with Hitler , thinking that Hitler, like Mussolini, would keep that agreement out of self interest. The immediate concern was to prevent another Kulturkampf. It didn’t work. Mussolini was a gangster, Hitler and his gang was antichrist. Thy had no intention of allowing the Church to educate the youth of the country. They could not be appeased. That didn’t keep the pope and most of Europe from thinking they could be.


75 posted on 07/07/2010 11:41:24 AM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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