You need to understand that the Deseret News in Utah is not your normal newspaper. It's owned by the Mormon church. Therefore, Mormon journalists and Mormon editors in a published piece paid for by Mormon tithe-givers to Lds, Inc. were furnishing propaganda on behalf of Nazis and Hitler!
An example of Mormon CHURCH funished pro-Nazi propaganda:
From the column: Early in the article, Clark writes, ominously, that religious freedom flourishes in Nazi Germany, except for “a few sects (which) have been prohibited or restricted.” We can guess at least one people of faith persecuted in Hitler’s Germany at that time — the Jews. And this leads to the most disturbing part of Clark’s national hagiography: finding a missionary moment in Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews. After detailing previous difficulties to get access to Germany’s archives to do genealogy, Clark writes, “Now, due to the importance given to the racial question, and the almost necessity of proving that one’s grandmother was not a Jewess, the old record books have been dusted off and stand ready and waiting for use. No questions are asked. In fact some of the Saints instead of being refused by the pastors now have received letters of encouragement complimenting them for their patriotism.”
From the column: Clark’s effusive cheerleading for Nazism is a dark moment in LDS history. But, as mentioned, it is history, delivered in a blunt, pure fashion. It underscores the enabling that many organizations, religious or otherwise, used to have a presence in the heart of evil. Church President Heber J. Grant, no doubt worried about persecution Mormons might receive, urged members in Germany in 1937 to get along and not cause problems. Another disturbing example — as late as 1939 — of Mormon enabling of Nazism was remarks in a Nazi media organ written by West German LDS mission president, Alfred C. Rees. Like Clark, Rees enthusiastically compared Nazism with Mormonism.
Hmm...a Mormon "enthusiastically compared Nazism with Mormonism."
To be fair, Christianity neglected to fully respond to the Nazi threat in the 1930s. Still, clarion calls existed in the U.S. to oppose the Nazis. A good example is E. Stanley Jones' 1937 book, The Choice Before Us. (Jones was a Methodist missionary to India who worked inter-denominationally to some degree)
A real coincidence in timing of your remark, given that Mormon columnist Doug Gibson published this two days ago!
Bull Crap.
What an absurd comment. He's reading a 1933 publication. I guess it's "amazing" that someone would bother to dig back into 1933 to find something to complain about, but it's hardly surprising to read something nice about Hitler from 1933.
Does the author remember that we actually had an Olympics in Germany in 1932? We were long away from the war, from the otrocities, from the knowledge of what Hitler really was. Even the Catholic church wasn't screaming about the evils of Hitler in 1933.
I'm sure we would fire the editor of the "LDS Church News" today, if he wasn't dead and buried along with Hitler, the 2nd world war, the depression, and a host of other things from the 1930s.
Maybe next week the author can write a scathing editorial about Howard Hughes.
Praising Hitler in 1933, is just a tad different than praising him in 1941, don’cha think?
So did the New Youk Slimes.
“LDS Church, through Church News, praised Hitler, Nazi Germany”
So did the New Youk Slimes.
This is just a hit piece, regardless of who wrote it.
One of the great ‘faith promoting rumors’ of Mormonism is that Mormons were killed by Nazi’s. In fact, the opposite is true. Long after most Christians began to fight the Nazis the Mormons worked hand in hand with them with many leaders even in the SS.
I have been told that Mormons deny the holocaust..
any truth in this ???