Geoffrey Robertson: Pope Pius XII did everything to help the Nazis, and nothing to save the Jews 

Like, everywhere. Feeling a little misanthropic?

@@martinocelotl8326 the Jews always talk about " when good men do nothing ". Why haven't they spoken up against Russia invading Ukraine and condemned Russia ?? Cos they are full of it.

Good and bad people everywhere but John 4 v 22, says salvation is of the Jews.

This effort to wash the papacy clean of the Nazis is a sick joke. The Nazi regime was created by Rome to carry out its will. Hitler said as far as the Jewish/ Christian Christian question ¨Im only carrying out Church policy it has had in efect for over 1500 yrs.¨ Ive personly seen WW2 pictures most of the world will never see. Were members of the vatican Heirarchy are in their church robes side by side of their very selfs in their heads of Nazis uniforms. The ceramonies and rewards the vatican gave some of these duel operatives for their mind blowing ostracities will wake you up to reality and couse one to weep. There must be a special Hell for these people.

@@joelayonsanchez6854 Did nobody tell you about the priests sent to dachau or that the SS were actualy germanic PAGANS? They celebrated Yuletide and everything lol. if you actualy read mein kampf instead of pulling quotes out of context he literally hated the fucking church so bad. They murdered Joseph Ratzinger, mentioned earlier and future pope's cousin for being mentaly feeble. (He had downsyndrome.) You probably won't read Mein Kampf, but until you do you dont know shit about shit.

@@FirstNameLastName-is6yb let me try to untangle the web you sprang out . Number one excuse my English for its a foreign language to me . Furthormore excuse me if i don use , fucking and shit and words as such, they kinda get in the way in my opinion . Your right about the ss ect. being pagan. So was everyone from the priests to pope pius the 12.who by the way declared Hitler ¨son of the Catholic church¨ ¨)Your claim that i took a quote out of context ¨ Hitler said as far as the Jewish/ Christian question ¨Im only carrying out Church policy it has had in efect for over 1500 yrs.¨ Well ,what did Hitler actualy mean by that? What did Hitler and the Nazi party actualy mean with the concordants sighned with the vatican ? The historic pictures of vatacin oficials who were also High ranking Nazi oficials, pictured also ... (duel operatives). The , ¨´convert to catholicism or die.´´, policy carried out in parts of europe by Hitlers regime and the extermination of the Jewish people. Both these objectives caried out by Rome in the Holy Inquisitions. Events ,Many more quotes ,court documents, pictures ect. presentations in Nuremberg trials can still to this day be found in some historic books wich after reading them it becomes impossible for the ¨sane mind ¨ to stay in denile. Here is one book worth its weight in gold with all this information. ¨Smokesreens by Jack T Chick¨ From one human to another - check it out, have a great day

@@joelayonsanchez6854 Jack Chick says it all. I can see the images now, the Pope with devil horns hidden under his hat. Don't get me wrong -- I truly enjoy Jack Chick. He is a very good artist and storyteller, but history is a little more complicated than Chick's Anticatholic vitriol.

The German Catholic clergy, particularly in Bavaria, stood up against the Vatican-Nazi alliance and suffered greatly because of that. They are true heroes that should not be forgotten. And to anyone who dares say that all Catholics supported Hitler, let the story of the German clergy stand as proof that is not true. So, as a Catholic, it is not right to defend someone like Pacelli, who held Hitler's hand, when there were many other Catholics standing against that same devils, Pacelli and his band of Nazis.

He did speak out JL. Over and over again. Mr Robertson just didn't tell you that part. whatswrongwithatheism.wordpress.com/scholarly-articles/

Adam Fogarty OK. Quote something he said that denounced Nazism.

Utter. nonsence. He was a Religious Leader, not a politician. What you do not realise is that the Church which he lead was instrumental, under his leadership, for the saving of thousands of lives regardless of their race or creed. It's "deeds" not "words" which count.

Bull

JLDoggard if you add in that the catholic centre party did a deal with Hitler that gave him his dictatorship makes it worse, how many Catholics truly died during the war due to Pius 12 s decision, this doesn’t get talked about much.

Exactly 👏

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a Catholic/Jesuit pawn, and a Knight of Malta. Same goes for '46664' puppet president, Nelson Mandela .

The chosen people haven't spoken up about Russia invading Ukraine but the Pope did.

Amen

So then by that logic, we're all oppressors. Who the hell has the ability to stand against the infinite amount of injustices across the world?? And no, youtube comments or twitter posts do not count as fighting injustice. Such a dumb comment and a stupid quote.

ADOLPH HITLER SAID: Hitler was also ready to discuss with the Bishop his views on the Jewish question: "As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc. Bernhard Stempfle: Was a Catholic priest and journalist. He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf. He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. Stempfle entered the priesthood in 1904. He joined the Hieronymite order (the Poor Hermits of Saint Jerome) in Italy. Hitler himself stated, "I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits. Until now, there has never been anything more grandiose, on the earth, than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic church. I transferred much of this organization into my own party." Walter Schellenberg, former chief of Nazi counter-espionage made this statement: "The S.S. organization had been constituted by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly. Himmler's title as supreme chief of the S.S. was to be the equivalent of the Jesuits' 'General' and the whole structure was a close imitation of the Catholic Church's hierarchical order." Franz von Papen, another powerful Nazi, who was instrumental in setting up the concordat between Germany and the Vatican had this to say: "The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy." If you are not aware of what a concordat is, a concordat is an agreement between the Vatican and a government. As far as the Vatican is concerned, that government that signed the concordat has now become a part of the government of God, and the Vatican fully intends to stabilize that government, give it divine protection, and give it international protection. As James Carroll wrote in “Constantine’s Sword,” his 2001 study of the Church’s relationship with the Jews, “The Reichskonkordat effectively removed the German Catholic Church from any continued role of opposition to Hitler. More than that, as Hitler told his cabinet on July 14, it established a context that would be ‘especially significant in the urgent struggle against international Jewry

@@HebrewsvJohnv Perhaps you should concern yourself with truth rather than a distorted picture. This article answers your assertions. (In 3 parts as it cannot be posted in one piece) Pius XII: The Pope Who Defied Hitler George J. Marlin SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022 PART 1 of 3 At the end of the Second World War, Pope Pius XII was universally acclaimed for his courageous leadership. The Jewish historian Pinchas Lapide acknowledged that the Church saved the lives of 850,000 Jews in Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, and Hungary. Rome’s chief rabbi, Israel Zolli, converted to Catholicism. To thank and honor Pope Pius XII, he took the name Eugenio, after Eugenio Pacelli, the pope’s birth name. When Pius XII died, Israel’s Foreign Minister Golda Meir wrote, “When fearful martyrdom came to our people in the decade of Nazi terror, the voice of the pope was raised for the victims.” Leonard Bernstein asked the audience at a performance of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for a minute of silence “for the passing of a very great man, Pope Pius XII.” Within five years after the pope’s death, however, efforts began to calumniate Pius. Soviet disinformation sought to discredit him. But it was especially the 1963 play, The Deputy, by Rolf Hochhuth, an unknown clerk at a German publishing house and a radical leftist, that painted Pius XII as a pro-Nazi anti-Semite who was silent while 6-million Jews were murdered. The actual record did not stop the slander. Robert Graham S.J., a scholar of the period, was asked to explain why. With all the gruesome information coming out about the Nazi death camps in the 1960s and 1970s, someone “needed to be blamed for the Holocaust.” And a pope fit the bill. Since 2020, the full Vatican archives on Pius XII have been opened to scholars. This summer, two books have appeared based on that archival material: The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Vatican Secret Archives by German historian Michael Hesemann; and The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by Brown University professor David I. Kertzer. Hesemann’s meticulous research reveals Eugenio Pacelli to have been an outspoken critic of the Nazis throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In a 1935 public letter to the bishops of Cologne, for example, Pacelli called the Nazis “false prophets with the pride of Lucifer.” He was also the principal author of Pius XI’s encyclical, written in German and released on Passion Sunday in 1937, With Burning Concern (Mit brennender Sorge), which condemned Nazi racial theories: Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community. . . .above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God. The Nazis called Pacelli a “Jew-loving” cardinal. After learning of the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on Jews, he formed a plan that would enable 200,000 people “who were considered Jews by the Third Reich, to emigrate and, thereby, to save them from further persecution.” If the various governments issued visas, the Vatican would cover the relocation costs. Although Pacelli labored mightily, Hesemann reports that, because of “a lack of cooperation from governments,” only a few thousand were able to emigrate. One month after the outbreak of the Second World War, Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII, released his first encyclical, On The Unity of Human Society, which called on all people of goodwill to oppose “two pernicious errors”: racism and statism. He bluntly stated that the Nazis “abandoned Christ’s cross for another which brings only death.” The New York Times declared on its front page: “Pope Condemns Dictators, Treaty Violators, Racism.” The American Israelite praised the pope’s “denunciation of Nazism.” Pius XII with Allied troops, 1944 In his annual Christmas radio addresses, the pope regularly condemned Nazi barbarism. A 1941 New York Times Christmas editorial declared: “The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice. . . .[He] is about the only ruler left on the continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all. [He] left no doubt that the Nazi aims are also irreconcilable with his own conception of Christian peace.”

@@HebrewsvJohnv Part 2 of 3 Pius XII gave his blessing to German resistance groups dedicated to deposing Hitler; their cause was morally sound because “we had to wage war against the powers of evil.” On several occasions, Hitler ordered Pius to be kidnapped and Curia members executed. Although Hitler was talked into rescinding those orders, Pius prepared for the worst. He signed a Letter of Resignation - to take effect if he were taken prisoner. In that case, the cardinals were to travel to neutral Portugal and hold a conclave to elect a new pope. After the Germans occupied Rome in October 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered that the “Final Solution” be implemented there. “All 8,000 Roman Jews,” Hesemann reports, “regardless of age, sex, or state of health, were to be deported to the Reich ‘for the purpose of liquidation.’” Hesemann discovered that on October 25, 1943, Pope Pius ordered in writing that “religious institutes and even the catacombs be opened for the Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis.” The pope sent food from the Vatican to feed thousands housed in Catholic institutions. He spent his own money on medicine, clothes, and other necessities; and he posted guards to protect compounds. Hundreds of Jews were hidden on Vatican territory including the pope’s summer residence, Castel Gandolfo. “Of the 7,705 Jews living in Rome on June 5, 1944, the day of the liberation by the Allies,” documents indicate 6,681 owed their rescue directly to the pope. But as in his previous works on Pius, Kertzer appears to be a historian in search of data to confirm a pre-conceived conclusion: that Pius XII did nothing to protect Jews. In a review of Kertzer’s The Popes Against the Jews, prominent American philosopher Russell Hittinger noted that the author failed to read papal condemnations of anti-Semitism, because “reading the public documents would cut against his thesis at every point.” Kertzer’s latest book has similar problems. About half the text traces the decline and fall of Mussolini, Hitler, and the House of Savoy. The other half portrays Pius XII as a weak, indecisive, incompetent, and unbending tyrant who turned a blind eye to the Holocaust and looked favorably on Fascists and Nazis. As the archival material indisputably shows, this is utterly preposterous. Kertzer even goes so far as to claim that Pacelli was not a favorite of the Cardinals at the 1939 conclave. He falsely asserts that it took three ballots for Pacelli to get the votes required. The conclave that elected Pacelli was the shortest since 1623. He received forty-eight votes on the second ballot, but as Hesemann rightly observes, “he insisted on a third ballot, in which he received sixty-one of the sixty-two votes, only his own went to another candidate.” Kertzer’s arguments rest on facts such as that Pius XII dealt with the head of the Italian state, King Victor Emanuel, and the head of the government, Benito Mussolini, to protect Catholic interests; he argued for peace, not war; and he used them as intermediaries with Hitler in attempts to broker a peace agreement. Kertzer is appalled that Pacelli, as Cardinal Secretary of State and as pope, dealt with Hitler’s government and had “secret” meetings with German envoys. Pius XII and his predecessor, Pius XI, recognized Hitler was evil, of course, but they negotiated with the German state to secure the Church’s freedom to educate youth and appoint bishops - and for German Catholics to practice their faith freely. Popes reaching out to rogue states is hardly unusual. To protect the flock, in the 1920s Pius XI attempted, on at least three occasions, to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Kertzer, to be sure, does not mention Pacelli’s documented efforts to save 200,000 “non-Aryans” after Kristallnacht. Or that, as Pius XII, he supported the resistance movement that sought to overthrow Hitler. And Kertzer dismisses Nazi plans to kidnap Pius XII as “Allied propaganda.” He asserts “there is no evidence the pope ever directed Church institutions to take in Jews,” a false statement, as archival materials show beyond all doubt. Throughout The Pope at War, the author disparages Pius XII’s public statements and speeches. He complains the pope used “opaque theological language and moralistic bromides” and spoke in a “monotonous tone devoid of any hint of spontaneity.” Pius XII’s sermons are - in this view - too long; his language “characteristically convoluted” or ambiguous. And the pope’s Christmas radio talks are dismissed as “long and of . . . rarified language.” The pope’s messages may be too opaque for Kertzer but were not so for millions of Catholics and Jews throughout the world at the time, including the New York Times, which was owned by a Jewish family. They understood the pope’s message and hailed him for his courage. Pius XII gave a radio address on August 1, 1941, for example, that is far from convoluted or ambiguous: A great scandal is presently taking place, and this scandal is the treatment suffered by the Jews; that is why I desire that a free voice, the voice of a priest, should be raised in protest. In Germany, the Jews are killed, brutalized, tortured because they are victims bereft of defense. How can a Christian accept such deeds?. . . . These men are the sons of those who 2000 years ago gave Christianity to the world. Despite such words, Kertzer’s primary accusation against Pius XII is his alleged “silence.” Kertzer claims, without evidence, that the pope was intimidated by Hitler and Mussolini and “clung firmly to his determination to do nothing to antagonize either man.” Hence, he concluded that “as a moral leader, Pius XII must be judged as a failure.” Pope Pius XII was far from silent, but he was certainly cautious. He instructed local bishops that they must “deliberate whether and to what extent the dangers of retaliatory measures and forms of pressure. . .make it seem advisable. . .to exercise restraint ad maiora mala vitanda [in order to avoid greater evils.].” There were sound reasons for caution.

@@DD-bx8rb No need, you shall know them by their fruits... The fact of the matter is the two most horrific slave trades we have witnessed, such as the Arab and Transatlantic Slave Trades were started under Islam and the Papacy/Catholic Churches, (Islamic Conquest, trade and expansion and European/Spanish and Portuguese Imperialism) both false prophets, Matthew ch 24, Jesus said you shall know them by their fruits, meaning legacies. The Papacy is a wolf in sheeps clothing and Catholics are duped, the Bible says to call no man Holy 'Father'. This is why both slave trades start centuries after the early Church in the 7th and 15th centuries. Early Anglicans too simply looked up to Queen Elizabeth 1, as the Head of The Church, when only Christ is, she simply partnered with John Hawkins, a former employee of King Phillip II, the Catholic Monarch, to herald the abomination of The British Involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Transsaharan Arab Islamic Slave Trade and Transatlantic Slave Trade, as authorised by The Pope and the resulting racial oppression have triggered the hate and it continued with the Scramble for Africa, in the Berlin Conference in 1884, perpetuating negative stereotypes. Pope Martin V, Henry the Navigator, Knights Templar, Military Order of Christ and slavery, Various sources.... Pope Martin V authorized a crusade against Africa in 1418 and this coupled with a later bull (1441) sanctioned the Portuguese trade in African slaves. Ten black African slaves were presented to Martin in 1441 by Prince Henry of Portugal. By 1444, a ‘cargo’ of 235 enslaved Africans had been brought to Lagos in Portugal. The Portuguese were using enslaved Africans on sugar plantations in Madeira, a Portuguese island off the west coast of Africa, by 1460. They built the first slave fort in 1481, on the coast of modern Ghana. This was Elmina Castle, the headquarters of the Portuguese slave traders. In the early 17th century, Portugal was a major trader in enslaved Africans. At this time, it held the asiento, or contract, to supply the Spanish colonies with slaves. This meant that as well as buying their own slaves, the Portuguese were buying slaves for Spanish owned plantations. This added to the overall number of slaves which Portuguese ships carried. Records show the total figure to be 4,650,000 enslaved Africans. On the 18th June 1452, Pope Nicholas V, issues the Papal Bull Dum Diversas, it authorised Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and any other unbelievers” to perpetual slavery. Other major Papal Bulls are Sane Charissmus in 1418, which launched a crusade on North Africa and the Saracens, Romanus Pontifex, 1455, which built on Dum Diversas, but literally just added the Pope's title to the bull and Inter Caetera, 1493. The language from the papal document Inter Caetera, dated May 4, 1493, identifies the nature of the “Deity” that the Catholic invaders of the original nations scrupulously worshiped. A sentence from that May 4 papal decree reads: “We trust in Him from whom empires and dominations and all good things proceed.” The pronoun “Him” is the only identifier of a “Deity” out of whom empire and domination issued forth or “proceeded.” The trade made the shift from Europe to the Americas as a primary destination for slaves around 1518. Prior to this time, slaves were required to pass through Portugal to be taxed before making their way to the Americas. The Papal bulls along with the Doctrine of Discovery and Berlin Scramble for Africa set off the basis of mass genocide, colonialism, destruction, and racial inequality for tens of millions of people maybe more, with people still stigmatised, racially prejudiced, left in dire conditions and not ever given any form of financial compensation. Henry the Navigator, has the dubious distinction of being a founder of the Atlantic slave trade. He sponsored Nuno Tristao's exploration of the African coast, and Antao Goncalves's hunting expedition there in 1441.Within a few years, Portugal was deeply involved in the slave trade. Henry died in 1460 in Sagres, Portugal. The Portuguese soon expanded their trade along the whole west coast of Africa. Henry the Navigator held the monopoly on all expeditions to Africa granted by the crown until his death in 1460.. Through his administrative direction, he is regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discovery. On 25 May 1420, Henry gained appointment as the Grand Master of the Military Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar, which had its headquarters at Tomar, in central Portugal. The Military Order of Christ, previously the Order of the Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo), is the former Knights Templar order as it was reconstituted in Portugal after the Templars were abolished on 22 March 1312 by the papal bull, Vox in excelso, issued by Pope Clement V. In Portugal, the Order of Christ accumulated great riches and power during the Age of Discoveries.

You shall know them by their fruits (Papacy): We also find the following in regards to the Papacy and its legitimization of the West African Slave Trade which grew into the Transatlantic Slave Trade: 1.) No direct admission of guilt, complicity, the foundational role played or the authorization given for the slave trade under the Roman Catholic Church - as given in various Papal Bulls. No condemnation of the blessings and approval for this! 2.) No papal accountability and reflection on the error of the Roman Catholic Church in assigning the Pope to have Papal Supremacy supposedly over the whole of Christendom - so as such that he was considered the supreme authority - as such to be unchallenged by such papal decrees. 3.) No wider acknowledgment of the wider damage, racial oppression, dehumanization and degradation caused and inflicted on the black race. 4.) No understanding of the mindset influenced and birthed for racists, especially those with power like Kings, who would in turn influence or perpetuate such attitudes and mindsets within the subjects of their kingdoms. 5.) No address towards reparations financially, mentally or otherwise to address the mass trauma caused from the slave trade. Come out of her, my people, that you ye be not partakers of her sin, Rev 18 v 4. To get some idea of the scale: Current estimates are that about 12 million to 12.8 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic over a span of 400 years, although the number purchased by the traders was considerably higher, as the passage had a high death rate with approximately 1.2-2.4 million dying during the voyage, maybe higher. This may even be conservative. Some numbers are even beyond these. King Leopold II, of Belgium separately under Brittanica Encyclopedia has the following attributed: "As many as 10 million people died in the Congo Free State under his atrocities". Slaves were traded by Portugal, Spain, France, Britain and the Netherlands. The Danes did it for a brief time. Arabs traded Black African slaves too throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Slaves were shipped to the modern-day countries of the United States, Cuba, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, etc.

You don't have that names on the shot down allied airmen, partisans, Italian army deserters or any of the 4,000 or so Jews who did the same?

Pat Aherne why are these revelant to the Nazis?

The Vatican helped Pavelic escape

@@lisainger6751 This murderer, Pavelis, was not only aided in escape, but he was hid in shelters where he gathered other Ustasi murderers escape justice under Vatican cloak.

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 Don't you think there's difference between helping victims escape and helping archmurderers escape justice?

Check out your history - about everything Pius XII did to save Jewish lives. “Poor loyal sheep”? Even if you were right about that, it would be better than being a horse’s ass who believes this blowhard, Robertson.

Wolves in sheep's clothing. Always existed, and will be judged by our creator.

Mega BASED.

The pope at the time ordered the crusaders not to attack Constantinople.

@@wonjubhoy Yeah, can’t be so direct about it. Also, the mercenary army/Crusaders thought the Pope was broke and they weren’t going to be paid… That on top of the ever worsening series of attacks/massacre by the Latin on the Orthodox and back and forth since the schism of 1054. Orthodox wiped out the Latin Catholics in Constantinople…60,000 Latin, they were forced to flee or worse/way worse. Latin Roman Crusaders saw a way to kill two birds with one stone: Get paid Get revenge. For 3 days in 1204, the Latin Crusaders sacked Greek Roman city of Constantinople that survived the fall of Latin/West Rome in 476…that was the end of Greek Eastern Roman Empire (East side of Rome).

Not fair. Many Catholics stood against Pacelli and his pro-Nazi policies.

@@martinocelotl8326 You are correct, not all individual Catholics; but for the most part, the hierarchy has historically been against the Jewish race.

lies. @@williamseric740

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8SWpN6jg6UI.html this video shows otherwise

How about reading a book or two??

@@vicm5272 ?

Propaganda lies, the entire damn thing.

Extra salty 🤣

@@mulagangsqueegi8776 extra going to hell

This is an ignorant comment. God doesn't think when the pope does. Pius XII did so much to help Jews. The Pope did speak up.

@@johnfisher247 the Pope planned our destruction. Christianity did the holocaust, Nazism was the tool

Except pius was an enemy to the nazi regime. The nazis planned to destroy the church and had plans to exile the pope and cardinals to concentration camps.

Tiso was a filthty traitor and a nazi puppet, he would have told Hitler if Pope Pius ordered him such thing.

Tiso didn't initiate the deportations and when they occurred there were loud protests from the Vatican. I m also curious how a priest whose primary function is the service of humanity came to be a fellow traveler of the merchants of death.

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 you defend it go on your lying your mouth off !

There is also the case of the Ustasi and Archibishop Stepinac in Croatia. The Ustasi was carrying out executions of Eastern Orthodox Christians who refused to convert to Catholicism. Not much pushback from the Church on this either. You'd think that maybe the Church didn't just suborn the Holocaust but was instead in it for the kill.

ADOLPH HITLER SAID: Hitler was also ready to discuss with the Bishop his views on the Jewish question: "As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc. Bernhard Stempfle: Was a Catholic priest and journalist. He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf. He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. Stempfle entered the priesthood in 1904. He joined the Hieronymite order (the Poor Hermits of Saint Jerome) in Italy. Hitler himself stated, "I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits. Until now, there has never been anything more grandiose, on the earth, than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic church. I transferred much of this organization into my own party." Walter Schellenberg, former chief of Nazi counter-espionage made this statement: "The S.S. organization had been constituted by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly. Himmler's title as supreme chief of the S.S. was to be the equivalent of the Jesuits' 'General' and the whole structure was a close imitation of the Catholic Church's hierarchical order." Franz von Papen, another powerful Nazi, who was instrumental in setting up the concordat between Germany and the Vatican had this to say: "The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy." If you are not aware of what a concordat is, a concordat is an agreement between the Vatican and a government. As far as the Vatican is concerned, that government that signed the concordat has now become a part of the government of God, and the Vatican fully intends to stabilize that government, give it divine protection, and give it international protection. As James Carroll wrote in “Constantine’s Sword,” his 2001 study of the Church’s relationship with the Jews, “The Reichskonkordat effectively removed the German Catholic Church from any continued role of opposition to Hitler. More than that, as Hitler told his cabinet on July 14, it established a context that would be ‘especially significant in the urgent struggle against international Jewry

Wow, never saw it from that point of view. It makes total sense now. Thank you

Great point point ☝️ In-between the crusades and WW1 however they did many more gory stuff and psychological warfare. Look at what they've done with Bach. If you really look close enough you will find out that they messed up many aspiring composers for there ongoing psyop against the non believers and other "enemies". The elites used currently known art as a weapon. "Look at us civilized folk, we know what's best for you".

But a bit of a liar.

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 your the liar

He put money in his hands so I don't believe that part he wasn't for the Nazis

@ what is the Catholic teaching of the didace on this point exactly?

The bible doesn't teach anywhere to kill anyone. It was the papal priest who setup the extermination camps in Croatia

FidesInXpristo lookup Bishop Hudal and the Ratline for a different perspective.

Jeremy James ante pavelich hid in the Vatican and was helped by bishop Hudal to escape via the Ratline, plus 100s more, who was in charge of the Vatican?

FidesInXpristo the trouble with this is the book it comes from is written by a Roman Catholic Nun, and the other troubling part is Pius 12 did not condemn the Nazis after the war, in fact he assisted them to escape via the Ratline, one of his key people in this was Bishop Hudal.

What Hitler had more power then the pope?? Nice try

I suggest you pick up Sister Pasqualina's diary and read the part about how Pacelli (later Pius XII) put money directly into Hitler's hand to fund the future Nazi Party.

I suggest you read the book "The Myth of Hitler's Pope" by RABBI David G. Dalin. Make sure you read it twice.

If the Catholics had of been liquidated instead do you think they would have spoke up for the Catholics ? I don't think so

@@martinocelotl8326 i will check it out. Thanks

@@charlesmartella Catholics were liquidated, Some were ignored by the Church.

he did not. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lmyRgq4hvjE.html

I need to understand. If you do not forget means you will revenge against Catholics?

Why don't ' The People of Israel ' with all their publicity ever speak up for the Australian Aboriginals or Native Americans who had Genocides perpetuated against them in a larger scale than the Holocaust ?? ps and this happened to them in their own native countries. ' The People of Israel ' weren't in Israel ,they were in Germany and Europe.

Pristo EXACTLY. It is only equalled by 7 decades of genocide in Palestine, a country established a millennium before the house of cards was created by the soon to be defunct Britishemwpire.

Nothing. The Nazis were impervious to all forms of reason. The Catholic church condemned the Nazis in mit Brenneder Sorge in 1937 without any improvement in their behaviour.

Diplomacy is always one big pile of bs. Golda Meir knew that it was important to establish political connections with Vatican at the moment at any cost.

@@DDD-sl7xp looks like you've bought into pseuod history already.

Funny how no one heard his voice during the war...

Polytheism idol worship atheism mysticism esoteric cults witchcraft paganism Judaism is also a part of humanity. Help them too.

@@serenemountain6769 that's correct, after helping countless Jews, partisans, downed allied airmen and Italian army deserters escape during the war. They also helped the families, wives and children of former Nazis to escape so they could be reunited.

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 Children yet not the soldiers themselves. Join our mailing list Join Support JVL Donate The Vatican & the Holocaust:Table of Contents|Background & Overview|"We Remember" People often ask: why did Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, not speak out more forcefully against Hitler? Historian Fr Dermot Fenlon of the Birmingham Oratory looks at the facts and sets the record straight. The answer is recounted by a former inmate of Dachau, Mgr Jean Bernard, later Bishop of Luxembourg: "The detained priests trembled every time news reached us of some protest by a religious authority, but particularly by the Vatican. We all had the impression that our warders made us atone heavily for the fury these protests evoked ... whenever the way we were treated became more brutal, the Protestant pastors among the prisoners used to vent their indignation on the Catholic priests: 'Again your big naive Pope and those simpletons, your bishops, are shooting their mouths off .. why don't they get the idea once and for all, and shut up. They play the heroes and we have to pay the bill.'" Albrecht von Kessel, an official at the German Embassy to the Holy See during the war, wrote in 1963: "We were convinced that a fiery protest by Pius XII against the persecution of the Jews ... would certainly not have saved the life of a single Jew. Hitler, like a trapped beast, would react to any menace that he felt directed at him, with cruel violence." The real question is, therefore, not what did the Pope say, but what did the Pope do? Actions speak louder than words. Papal policy in Nazi Europe was directed with an eye to local conditions. It was co- ordinated with local hierarchies. Nazi policy towards the Jews varied from country to country. Thus, although anti-Jewish measures were met in France by public protest from Archbishop Saliege of Toulouse, together with Archbishop Gerlier of Lyons and Bishop Thias of Mantauban, their protest was backed by a highly effective rescue and shelter campaign. 200,000 lives were saved. In Holland, as Fr Michael O'Carroll writes, the outcome was 'tragically different'. The Jewish historian Pinchas Lapide sums it up: "The saddest and most thought provoking conclusion is that whilst the Catholic clergy of Holland protested more loudly, expressly and frequently against Jewish persecutions than the religious hierarchy of any other Nazi-occupied country, more Jews - some 107,000 or 79% of the total - were deported from Holland; more than anywhere else in the West." Van Kessel's view is therefore borne out by the experience of Nazi Holland: protest merely made for more reprisals. What of Rome itself? In 1943 the German ambassador to the Holy See, Von Weizsaecker, sent a telegram to Berlin. The telegram has been cited as damning 'evidence' against Pius XII. "Although under pressure from all sides, the Pope has not let himself be drawn into any demonstrative censure of the deportation of Jews from Rome ... As there is probably no reason to expect other German actions against the Jews of Rome we can consider that a question so disturbing to German-Vatican relations has been liquidated." Von Weizsaecker's telegram was in fact a warning not to proceed with the proposed deportation of the Roman Jews: 'there is probably no reason to expect other German actions against the Jews of Rome'. Von Weizsaecker's action was backed by a warning to Hitler from Pius XII: if the pursuit and arrest of Roman Jews was not halted, the Holy Father would have to make a public protest. together the joint action of Von Weizsaecker and Pius XII ended the Nazi manhunt against the Jews of Rome. 7,000 lives were saved. In Hungary, an estimated 80,000 baptismal certificates were issued by Church authorities to Jews. In other areas of Eastern Europe the Vatican escape network (organised via Bulgaria by the Nuncio Roncalli - later John XXIII) has impressed those writers who have studied the subject, with the effectiveness of the Church's rescue operation. David Herstig concludes his book on the subject thus: "Those rescued by Pius are today living all over the world. There went to Israel alone from Romania 360,000 to the year 1965." The vindication of Pius XII has been established principally by Jewish writers and from Israeli archives. It is now established that the Pope supervised a rescue network which saved 860,000 Jewish lives - more than all the international agencies put together. After the war the Chief Rabbi of Israel thanked Pius XII for what he had done. The Chief Rabbi of Rome went one step further. He became a Catholic. He took the name Eugenio.

You are absolutely correct. I liked your input. It's so easy to stand añd critcise others, but what could we do in the circumstances.

The Israeli government was a stooge setup from the beginning. Wasn't Golda Meier from the US?

Well, that was nice of her. Did she thank them for the Ratlines too?

She wanted the Vatican to recognize the State of Israel which Pope Pius XII refused to do.

@@lugano1999 Good. Look at what Israel does to Palestinians.

What? You say that ven. Pope Pius XII was not good pope? Really? He was one of the best popes we've ever had. He was last defender of our Holy faith. He did his best to protect Holy Mother Church from all of her enemies. Stop accusin' this Saint!

The pope’s first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus , issued at the very outset of the war, not only defended Poland but also stressed the unity of the human race, explicitly quoting St. Paul’s equating of Gentiles and Jews (Col. 3:10¯11). Pius’ first Christmas message called for the protection of racial minorities and condemned "atrocities" committed "against noncombatants and refugees, against old people, women and children"; defended "dignity, freedom and human life"; and declared that actions that violated them call for "vengeance in the sight of God." Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels railed in his diary: "The Pope has made a Christmas speech. Full of bitter, covert attacks against us, against the Reich and National Socialism. All the forces of internationalism are against us. We must break them. In a March 6, 1939 editorial, "Leadership for Peace," the Palestine Post in Jerusalem said: "Pius XII has clearly shown that he intends to carry on the late Pope's [Pius XI] work for freedom and peace... we remember that he must have had a large part to play in the recent Papal opposition to pernicious race theories and certain aspects of totalitarianism..." Less than two months after World War II broke out, on October 27, Pius XII issued his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus. On the same day, the New York-based Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the equivalent of the Associated Press, reported that, "the unqualified condemnation which Pope Pius XII heaped on totalitarian, racist and materialistic theories of government in his encyclical Summi Pontificatus caused a profound stir... Although it had been expected that the Pope would attack ideologies hostile to the Catholic Church, few observers had expected so outspoken a document..." In a November 9, 1939 editorial, "Endowed with Reason," the American Israelite in Cincinnati also discussed the encyclical. "In decrying totalitarianism, Pope Pius XII called the individual the end and the state the means of bringing out the fundamental equality of men because men are endowed with reason," the editorial said. "This concept of democracy is reiterated in the Pope's Encyclical, stressing again the inviolability of the human person as a sacred being..." Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, upon Pius's death in 1958, said: "When fearful martyrdom came to our people in the decade o Nazi terror, the voice of the pope was raised for the victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking on the great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace." Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Isaac Herzog, sent Pius XII a personal message of thanks on February 28, 1944: "The people of Israel will never forget what His Holiness and his illustrious delegates, inspired by the eternal principles of religion which form the very foundation of true civilization, are doing for us unfortunate brothers and sisters in the most tragic hour of our history, which is living proof of Divine Providence in this world." Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome, "What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts...priests and even higher prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism." Zolli later converted to Catholicism and took the Christian name Eugenio after the pope, who's given name was Eugenio. www.firstthings.com/author/william-doino-

Pius saved more jews and preserved their lives more so in silence than in grandstanding. He protected the Jewish people by hiding them if he had spoken up the church and jews wouldn't had survived.

@@larrygraysmith8411 Read the Bible, follow the Bible not that cult.

@@EQOAnostalgia Read the Bible, follow the Church Christ estabilshed and turn away from that protestant cult.

Speaking out against the Nazis would of been like asking for a death sentence. Not only for the Church and Catholics but also for the Jews. In particular, the Jews *hiding within the Catholic institutions of Nazi Europe: such as Churches, Convents, Monasteries, the Vatican City-State and even the Pope's own personal summer home, Castle Gandolfo*. At any one time during the Final Solution phase of the Holocaust, there were between 500,000-870,000 Jews hiding in Catholic institutions. So yeah, I think it's ridiculous to complain about "openly condemning the Nazis" when you got large amounts of their targeted people marked for extermination hiding in your places...

@@serenemountain6769 lol nice facts man

@@serenemountain6769 looks like you have figured it out, congratulations. Or perhaps what you say is the biggest load of bullshit

@@serenemountain6769 It's like in the movie "The Nanny." He was lying to protect the integrity of the all the other nannies (the Church.)

“Speaking out and telling Catholics explicitly that nazism was unacceptable and excommunicating Catholic nazis (as he did to Catholic communists) would have done more harm than good ultimately, even though Germany was like 40% Catholic, cuz there were ‘forces’ at work we don’t know about that exonerate him” is quite the take

An absolute lie.

𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱: " *_You shall not make for yourselves carved idols or graven images, not of things above or things below, nor bow to them, for I am a jealous God who will deliver your iniquities unto the third and fourth generations of those who hate me and fail to keep my Commandments_* ."

I sincerely hope not.

Jewish scholars, historians and holocaust survivors have all testified that Pius XII secretly saved over 1M Jews. At first he spoke out and wrote about Hitler and the evil plans he carried out. However, every time he would do so, thousands and thousands of Jews and Catholics were killed. Pius XII was begged by priests and Nazis as well to be quiet since his words and actions resulted in massacres. Working behind the scenes further upset Hitler and ordered to have the Pope kidnapped and killed. The Vatican has requested the opening of secret vaults containing millions of notes and letters that will prove Pius XII was an ally to the Jewish community.

He hid Jews in his own home. And during his papacy, thousands of priests and bishops across Europe helped to hide and protect Jewish people from Hitler's regime. Even more so, the papacy itself, under Pius's command, was in league with the Germany resistance movement; the Germans that attempted to kill Hitler. Anyone who says that Pius did "nothing to help the Jews" can go to hell.

I disagree that evil is a part of human nature, but I very much agree that genocide has happened and is continuing to happen. We need to do better than this for those who are oppressed

No, he didnt. He saved 860,000 Jews with his personal inheritance. You are wrong, and he did speak out. You are just anti Catholic. He spoke out and Hitler killed priests. Not many helped of any denomination. What did your family do? You sound upper brit yourself. Baloney!

Golda Meir didn't think so. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, upon Pius's death in 1958, said: "When fearful martyrdom came to our people in the decade o Nazi terror, the voice of the pope was raised for the victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking on the great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace."

If popes are going to heaven so is hilter and satan.

Mit Brennender Sorge was an excoriation of German politicians for not adhering to the policies outlined in the Reichskonkordat, a document authored by Pacelli himself. Mit Brennender Sorge is itself proof of the high level of Vatican (Pacelli's) involvement in German politics.

@@etiennedevignolles7538 Not a single individual was excommunicated via Mit Brennender Sorge. Excommunication was implied, but Pius XI, in cahoots with Pacelli, did not have the courage to name individuals to be excommunicated for fear of damaging Vatican - Nazi relationship. The, so called, excommunication was Sententiae Latae, not Sententiae Ferendae. This itself is evidence of the high level involvement the Vatican had with Nazi Germany.

@@etiennedevignolles7538 Reichskonkordat was between who?

@@etiennedevignolles7538 Wasn't the German Government a National Socialist one?

@@etiennedevignolles7538 Yet, as you acknowledge, there were Nazis, and Hitler was involved. Still, according to Sister Pasqualina, Pacelli had been sponsoring Hitler since the early 1920s. Pacelli was involved with Germany and Hitler long before the Reichskonkordat, even if Germany was not at the time yet officially National Socialist. In short, Pacelli made a career out of Nazi Germany. This is actually an achievement for Pacelli and I would venture to say, the highlight of his diplomatic career.

And that could be any one of them, since they are all man made.

Alright, give me one proof against the proposition?

Dude, they helped Adolph Eichmann escape!

Did that rebuke include aiding Nazis in escaping justice (ratlines) after the war? How keen was that?

It shows you what leadership the Jews have.

Llandon; They were duplicitous. The jews they hid were nothing compared to the jews the refused to aid. Everything they did to aid the jews was eyewash. Additionally, pope boy did nothing to thwart the jesuits hiding nazis and aiding their escape. The Catholic Church hates the jews, always has.

Please do not call him holy father. That’s nonsense to use the name that belongs to God

@@solomonarthur9655 if you want to wallow in your Protestant Schism that’s fine with me . But do not tell me how to address the last Vicar of Christ on earth (so far)

@@llandonross1372 read revelation 17 and see the Catholic described and it’s impending doom

@@solomonarthur9655 😂😂😂😂

Is it true hell is really a cold and lonely place?

@@martinocelotl8326 they arre not sweet and innocent and victims that they make out to be and deep down you know that as well as me or anyone.

@@charlesmartella Any other group of people you would like to see exterminated?

pish

Konohas Oyabun lookup. Bishop Hudal and Ratline for another perspective.

Konohas Oyabun then why didn’t he say anything after the war?

rubbish , he said nothing so that he would be able to implement cannon law in Germany , he said nothing due to equating the jews with ungodly Bolshevick communism !

@@lizh1970 so that he would be able to implement Canon Law in Germany, AND in godless USSR ... with Hitler's help, of course.

What is your argument???

No Australians are wannabe Englishmen. How did ya come up with that ??

Such lies were already debunked by Jewish and non-Catholic historians Pope Pius XII helped many Jews escape the Holocaust and tried to overthrow Hitler

@@MZONE991 Pope Pius was likely an anti semite and the only reason he ever wanted to overthrow hitler was for the same reasons the Russians did. For political reasons not moral ones. His "plots" against hitler were largely centred around the year 1940 (which by the way were German resistance plots. The pope doesn't get the credit.). He had learned about the mass slaughtering of Jews in 1942. When asked by british intelligence to corroborate this information, he acted on the advice of one of his advisors who dismissed the claims as exaggerated and stated that there is not enough evidence to conclude that the slaughtering is taking place. The silence of this pope in the face of the holocaust was deafening. As for "rescuing the Jews" that was not the pope. He had nothing to do with it. That was regular catholic men and women not the pope. He gave no such order to help the jews. I had links to sources but it wouldn't let me post the reply

@@adenjones1802 Not true at all Again this is only some internet anti Catholic propaganda Even non Catholic historians have refuted such claims See the following books -the myht of Hitler's Pope (Jewish historian) -Church of spies

​@@MZONE991 I am somewhat familiar with the church of spies. It says that he was in contact with German resistance all according to transcripts released by who? THE VATACAN. Ah yes the most unbiased of places to go to when talking about. Instead of fantasy novels about pope 007, how about an academic article. Search: Pope Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews in Italy: Evidence of a Papal Directive? He was no saviour of the Jews. Like I said that was regular catholics and many other groups of people. He simply did not care. Why do you try to defend popes by the way? Catholic popes throughout history have been some of the most blood thirsty psychopaths in history (literally blood thirsty in the case of the ironically named Pope Innocent VIII also known as the pope who drank children's blood) You catholics just want to erase your crimes from history so that your fascist church can consolidate more power money and influence.

Read it again buddy, your comment has popes who were long dead before the Second World War and fought Napoleon.

@@lordjesuschristhavemercyon3251 he turned a blind aye to the nazis to gain power in germany

@@etiennedevignolles7538 the concordat was signed after Hitler came to power in July 20th , Hitler became chancellor in January 30th. The vice chancellor von Papen was from the Catholic Central party,who suggested the concordat in April 7th 1933. Churchill publicly denounced Hitler's on radio broadcasts more than pius x12. The syllabus of errors was against modernism and liberalism and democracy. No different from Hitler views regarding the international jews as perpetrators of such movements. Vatican 2 made your church more lenient regards the heirachial medieval power structure of complete autonomy over all peoples.

@@etiennedevignolles7538 l never said von papen was a Nazi. The point is Hitler had his way regards his policies regards the Communist and jews. The church had same ideas prior to Hitler time. Your church were just against the jews as Hitler. Nothing new in Germany anti jews policies. My point is it was a protection against the church, like the kulturekampf of Bismarck time. Check out the church policies against the jews and Hitler and others and its same source. No Catholic was to demonstrate publicly against Hitler,only the cardinals or Pope by diplomatic ways. Churchill voiced just as much against Hitler regime and many others besides the Pope.

@@etiennedevignolles7538 am not interested in this topic. The Roman papacy was anti Jews that a fact, even today their are the modernist movement or the SSPX who blame the Jews for infiltrationing the church by freemasonry liberalism communism,by the Jewish bankers. Hitler said same about them. The Jews who were forced to convert and be baptized we're protected if it was possible,those not different situation. Anti Semitism or the modern form was also believed in Catholic circles especially the Jesuits. Again only since Vatican 2 has the church changed its dogma about the perfidious Jew . Anton pavelic who was Catholic was responsible for many atrocities against those not of the Catholic faith and welcomed by Pope Pius. This genocide is forgotten in Croatia during his reign and the Catholic rat lines made him and many others escape to south america or wherever. So dont paint your church as benevolent towards the jews throughout its history.

@@etiennedevignolles7538 typical response defending your holy mother church despite its past record of anti jewish hatreds and persecutions. Parroting the same dogmas, a parrot repeats what it hears,yet never thinks what those words mean. Traditions keep traditions. 1,700 yrs of despotic rule and what is the function of the mother church to have the kingdom of heaven on earth. Its failed and the Jews will receive its king not a Pope your holy Father and pontifex maximus . Babylon Babylon has fallen.

@@etiennedevignolles7538 Why do you say that all Nazis were excommunicated? You're making this up. What will you cite? Latae Sententiae? Consider why you would lie to defend a Pacelli, Hitler's Enabler, rather than stand up for righteous Catholics who struggled against Pacelli's pro-Nazi diplomacy?

You mean heretics

@@tunabulut3910 Yes it apply to true popes.

They've been trying even before the Crusades when they and the Muslim competition tried to get rid of each other. With Catholicism dominating European Christendom/Christianity against the Islamic Empires

ADOLPH HITLER SAID: Hitler was also ready to discuss with the Bishop his views on the Jewish question: "As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc. Bernhard Stempfle: Was a Catholic priest and journalist. He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf. He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. Stempfle entered the priesthood in 1904. He joined the Hieronymite order (the Poor Hermits of Saint Jerome) in Italy. Hitler himself stated, "I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits. Until now, there has never been anything more grandiose, on the earth, than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic church. I transferred much of this organization into my own party." Walter Schellenberg, former chief of Nazi counter-espionage made this statement: "The S.S. organization had been constituted by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly. Himmler's title as supreme chief of the S.S. was to be the equivalent of the Jesuits' 'General' and the whole structure was a close imitation of the Catholic Church's hierarchical order." Franz von Papen, another powerful Nazi, who was instrumental in setting up the concordat between Germany and the Vatican had this to say: "The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy." If you are not aware of what a concordat is, a concordat is an agreement between the Vatican and a government. As far as the Vatican is concerned, that government that signed the concordat has now become a part of the government of God, and the Vatican fully intends to stabilize that government, give it divine protection, and give it international protection. As James Carroll wrote in “Constantine’s Sword,” his 2001 study of the Church’s relationship with the Jews, “The Reichskonkordat effectively removed the German Catholic Church from any continued role of opposition to Hitler. More than that, as Hitler told his cabinet on July 14, it established a context that would be ‘especially significant in the urgent struggle against international Jewry

This lot know everything and it's all about them .

ADOLPH HITLER SAID: Hitler was also ready to discuss with the Bishop his views on the Jewish question: "As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc. Bernhard Stempfle: Was a Catholic priest and journalist. He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf. He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. Stempfle entered the priesthood in 1904. He joined the Hieronymite order (the Poor Hermits of Saint Jerome) in Italy. Hitler himself stated, "I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits. Until now, there has never been anything more grandiose, on the earth, than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic church. I transferred much of this organization into my own party." Walter Schellenberg, former chief of Nazi counter-espionage made this statement: "The S.S. organization had been constituted by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly. Himmler's title as supreme chief of the S.S. was to be the equivalent of the Jesuits' 'General' and the whole structure was a close imitation of the Catholic Church's hierarchical order." Franz von Papen, another powerful Nazi, who was instrumental in setting up the concordat between Germany and the Vatican had this to say: "The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy." If you are not aware of what a concordat is, a concordat is an agreement between the Vatican and a government. As far as the Vatican is concerned, that government that signed the concordat has now become a part of the government of God, and the Vatican fully intends to stabilize that government, give it divine protection, and give it international protection. As James Carroll wrote in “Constantine’s Sword,” his 2001 study of the Church’s relationship with the Jews, “The Reichskonkordat effectively removed the German Catholic Church from any continued role of opposition to Hitler. More than that, as Hitler told his cabinet on July 14, it established a context that would be ‘especially significant in the urgent struggle against international Jewry

@@HebrewsvJohnv Hitler murdered thousands of priests. The pope saved thousands of Jews while in fascist Italy. Catholic bishops were able to stop Hitler murdering mentally handicapped children. Golda Meir thanked the pope for his efforts to save Jews. Hitler was a Darwinian through and through and he had nothing but contempt for Christianity. Hitler had far more in common with his fellow socialist Stalin than he did with Catholics

Because not all of them had as much blood on there hands as pope Pius xii & tens of thousands of Catholic hierarchy that turned away from the innocent men, women & children that were murdered after brutal slavery & torture.

Because they believe that the Jews are God's chosen people. It's estimated that about 860,000 Jews were saved thanks to Pius.

to look good on the picture, when they switched sides!

@@jodymcconnell2281 is well documented as to the tributes paid by Israel to pope pius xii and the Catholic Church for their work in trying to save the Jews.

I don’t think there is evidence they did. Some individual Catholics tried to save some Jews, but nothing organized on a scale to be called a church.

do research, there is some before he was pope. Or is that too much work?

Like what? Quote it. Prove me wrong. The ball's in your court not mine. He knew what was happening and did nothing. What would Jesus have done?

He had background people working to get them out using documents supplied by the church. Speaking out might have caused them to focus on the church thereby making it harder to get people out. Look it up. Jewish leaders at the time praised him for his actions.

Dennis McAtee Yeah like what Dennis? The Vatican still refuses to release the relevant files. He ex-communicated Stalin and other communists but none of the Nazis. The Jewish community in Rome was rounded up literally beneath his very windows and sent to Auschwitz, yet he remained silent. I don't give a dam what some "rent-a-rabbi" says. You can have your own opinions but not your own facts.

facts were what I was waiting for. Arm chair quarterbacking a period in time is not a fact.

the church is nazi... that's why, Germany represents fascism, religion never has an effect on war, look at governments and their connection to the church, there is no separation of church and state, its a lie, the churches are one of their biggest land buying clients!

Pacelli gave Hitler lots of money to start the Nazi party. It's documented in Murphy's book, "La Popessa," 1983. This happened in the very early 1920s. It's written by a Catholic in praise of Pacelli.

Was the church more important than holocaust lives. ...... I think he should have spoken up...

Because israel was stolen land given to the jews and the jewish faith is false and they deny jesus as the messiah. That is why.