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(‘popes pius XI’ (‘1922′ –’1939’) + ‘pius XII’ (1939–58) led the ‘roman catholic church’ through the ‘rise’ + ‘fall’ of ‘nazi germany’)
(~ 1/3 of germans were ‘catholic’ in the ‘1930s’)
(the church in ‘germany’ had spoken against the rise of ‘nazism’, but the catholic-aligned ‘centre party’ capitulated in ‘1933’ and was subsequently ‘banned’)
(in the various ‘1933 elections’, the % of ‘catholics’ voting for the ‘nazi party’ was remarkably lower than the ‘average’)
(nazi key ideologue ‘alfred rosenberg’ was banned on the index of the ‘inquisition’, presided by later pope ‘pius XII’).
(‘adolf hitler’ + several key ‘nazis’ had been raised ‘catholic’, but became hostile to the ‘church’ in ‘adulthood’)
(while ‘article 24’ of the ‘NSDAP party platform’ called for ‘conditional toleration’ of ‘christian denominations’ + the 1933 reichskonkordat treaty with the ‘vatican’ purported to guarantee ‘religious freedom’ for ‘catholics’, the ‘nazis’ were essentially hostile to ‘christianity’ + the ‘catholic church’ faced ‘persecution’ in ‘nazi germany’)
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*its *’press’ / ‘schools’ / ‘youth’ organizations* were closed*
*much ‘catholic property’ was confiscated*
*~1/3 of its ‘clergy’ faced ‘reprisals’ from ‘authorities’*
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(‘catholic lay leaders’ were targeted in the ‘night of the long knives’ purge)
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(the ‘church hierarchy’ attempted to co-operate with the new government, but in ‘1937’, the papal encyclical mit brennender sorge accused the government of “fundamental hostility” to the church)
(among the most courageous demonstrations of ‘opposition’ inside ‘germany’ were the ‘1941 sermons’ of ‘bishop august von galen’ (of ‘münster’))
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“[n]either the ‘catholic church’ nor the ‘evangelical church’… (as institutions), felt it possible to take up an attitude of ‘open opposition’ to the regime”
alan bullock
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(in every country under ‘german occupation’, ‘priests’ played a major part in rescuing ‘jews’, but ‘catholic resistance’ to ‘mistreatment’ of ‘jews’ in ‘germany’ was generally limited to ‘fragmented’ (+ largely ‘individual’) efforts)
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(‘mary fulbrook’ wrote that when ‘politics’ encroached on the ‘church’, ‘catholics’ were prepared to resist, but that the record was otherwise ‘patchy’ + ‘uneven’, and that, with notable exceptions…)
(“it seems that – for many germans – adherence to the ‘christian faith’ proved compatible with at least ‘passive acquiescence’ in, if not ‘active support’ for, the ‘nazi dictatorship'”)
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(‘catholics’ fought on both sides in the ‘world war 2’)
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(hitler’s invasion of (predominantly catholic) ‘poland’ ignited the conflict in ‘1939’)
(here, especially in the areas of ‘poland’ annexed to the ‘reich’—as in other ‘annexed regions’ of ‘slovenia’ + ‘austria’—’nazi persecution’ of the church was intense)
(many ‘clergy’ were targeted for ‘extermination’)
(through his links to the ‘german resistance’, ‘pope pius XII’ warned the ‘allies’ of the planned ‘nazi invasion’ of the ‘low countries’ in ‘1940’)
(from that year, the ‘nazis’ gathered ‘priest-dissidents’ in a ‘dedicated clergy barracks’ at ‘dachau’, where 95% of its ‘2,720 inmates’ were ‘catholic’ (mostly ‘poles’ along with ‘411 germans’) + ‘1,034 priests’ died there)
(‘expropriation’ of ‘church properties’ surged from ‘1941’)
(the ‘vatican’ (surrounded by ‘fascist italy’), was officially ‘neutral’ during the war, but used ‘diplomacy’ to aid ‘victims’ + lobby for ‘peace’)
(‘vatican radio’ and other media spoke out against atrocities…)
(…while ‘nazi anti-semitism’ embraced modern ‘pseudo-scientific racial principles’, ancient antipathies between ‘christianity’ + ‘judaism’ contributed to ‘european anti-semitism’)
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(during the ‘nazi era’, the ‘church’ rescued many thousands of ‘jews’ by…)
*issuing ‘false documents’*
*lobbying ‘axis officials’*
*hiding them in ‘monasteries’, ‘convents’, ‘schools’ and elsewhere;
including in the ‘vatican’ + ‘papal residence’ at [‘castel gandolfo’])
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(the pope’s role during this period is contested)
(the ‘reich security main office’ called ‘pius XII’ a “mouthpiece” of the ‘jews’)
(his first encyclical summi pontificatus called the invasion of ‘poland’ an “hour of darkness”, his ‘1942 christmas address’ denounced ‘race murders’ + his mystici corporis christi encyclical (‘1943’) denounced the murder of ‘the handicapped’)
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(the ‘roman catholic church’ was an ally of the ‘national socialist movement’ in germany)
(even though hitler believed that catholics were “afraid” of germans)
(did he consider himself a catholic?)
(according to my old jewish sixth grade teacher ‘missus hochheiser’)
(who hated michelle dackis)
(jewish women are probably catty towards one another)
(especially when she absent-mindedly answered ‘george washington carver’ to a ‘which president?’ question)
(her turkey gobble violently shook as she uttered “why we’ve NEVER had a black president!”)
(as in) “why are you being so ridiculous?”
(most ‘germans’ were ‘protestants’)
(though propaganda minister ‘joseph goebbels’ was a fervent ‘catholic’)
(the nazi ‘minister of propaganda’)
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥