Posted on 01/15/2005 2:12:47 PM PST by Embraer2004
Translated J.R. Orellana
So it reveals the Catholic newspaper Avvenire according to statements made by former Nazi General Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff, who says that he personally received orders from the Führer to kidnap the Pope
EFE El Universal online Roma, Italia Saturday 15 january 2005
13:24 Adolf Hitler had planned to kidnap Pope Pius XII 1944 due to his position against Nazism and his collaboration with the Jews, according to today's edition of the daily Avvenire, which is based on testimony from former Nazi General Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff.
According to the paper, Wolff's information is found in a written declaration in 1972 that pertains to the Nüremberg process and is among the documents filed in the beatification process of Pius XII. Avvenire claims that the former general received personal orders from Hitler to kidnap Pius XII on May 1944, when the General was to visit the Pontiff.
The audience occurred on 10 May 1944 and that is where the German General informed the Pope of Hitler's intentions.
As a proof of sincerity, the Pope asked Wolff to liberate two deathy-row inmates, which he did on 3 June 1944.
Once kidnapped, the plan was to transfer the Pontiff to the Liechtenstein Castle, in Württemberg, adds the newspaper, which also has collected documents which showed the Vatican's preoccupation with an imminent Nazi action against the Pope.
Some historians, such as Andrea Tornielli, author of "Piuso XII, The Pope of the Jews", have already pushed forward the theory that Hitler intended to deport the Pontiff in revenge of his presumptive help to the Jews and point out that it was Wolff's opposition to the Fuhrer that prevented such action.
In spite of his supposed collaboration to save the Jews, Pius XII , at the end of World War II, was severely criticized for his apparent passivity in the face of the Holocaust.
Go to the link. It's all right there. Letter was (deliberately or carelessly) mistranslated. And Goldhagen, unfortunately, was all too willing to believe the very worst about the Catholic church without checking it out at all. . . . which seems to be a common problem hereabouts.
Next thing you know, I'll be telling everybody about the secret Catholic indoctrination camps and Attila the Nun forcing little Baptist children to say the Rosary . . .
. . . just put it down to my being a newbie Catholic . . .
< grin >
It's the people who demand everyone worship their way or be killed that really worry me.
It's no justification to malign the Pope.The information was false, why perpetuate it?
Ask the same question of any liberal ----the true answer is that some people reject objective truth if it doesn't fit their prejudices.
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