Lera:
Actually, your statement is historically inaccurate, there are maps of where Hitler received the majority of his votes and where he did not recieve a majority of his votes and it was the Catholic parts of the Country that rejected him. In fact, the Catholic party of which produced the mass resistance to Hitler and which produced the officer that tried to kill Hitler in 1944 just after the invasion of Normandy, was the major opposition to Hitler in what was I think the 1932 or 33 election.
It was the Center Party who voted for the Enabling Act of 1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
because they didn’t want to buck party lines.
That Center Party was the Catholic party.
They voted in favor of their own destruction even though many of them argued against it.
Looks like they had a lot of Pelosi types
and in turn they gave him his power.
BTW it was a Luther Pastor by the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
that was executed for the attempt on Hitler’s life.
He also was one of the founding leaders of the Confessing Church movement . (church not controlled by the government and evangelical)
The Catholic support of Hitler did increase in the 1933 elections but the reasons are not quite as lurid as they would like us to believe.
The increase was because:
Catholics were lied to that the Hitler would not let the State intefere in Church affairs.
The legitimate fear that an unstable German state would mean the rise of atheistic Communism.
Hitler had not yet begun the euthansia and other programs which were so against Catholic teaching.
Once the true goals of Hitler became apparant the Pope issued “Mit brennender Sorge” in 1937.
As enamored of fantastic histories as some of the anti Catholic posters are on this thread, it will be very hard for them to understand the historical and social context of Germany during and following the Weimar Republic and to properly analyze the facts presented. No doubt the conclusions they draw will be at odds with any reputable historians have reached.