Hitler's Pope
Pope Benedict XVI — Former Hitler Youth
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Papal hopeful
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London
Times | April 18, 2005
THE wartime past of a
leading German contender to succeed John Paul II may return to haunt him as
cardinals begin voting in the Sistine Chapel tomorrow to choose a new leader
for 1 billion Catholics.
Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, whose strong defence of Catholic orthodoxy has earned him a variety
of sobriquets — including “the enforcer”, “the panzer cardinal” and “God’s
rottweiler” — is expected to poll around 40 votes in the first ballot as
conservatives rally behind him.
Although far short of
the requisite two-thirds majority of the 115 votes, this would almost
certainly give Ratzinger, 78 yesterday, an early lead in the voting. Liberals
have yet to settle on a rival candidate who could come close to his tally.
Unknown to many members
of the church, however, Ratzinger’s past includes brief membership of the
Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a German army anti- aircraft
unit.
Although there is no
suggestion that he was involved in any atrocities, his service may be
contrasted by opponents with the attitude of John Paul II, who took part in
anti-Nazi theatre performances in his native Poland and in 1986 became the
first pope to visit Rome’s synagogue.
“John Paul was hugely
appreciated for what he did for and with the Jewish people,” said Lord Janner,
head of the Holocaust Education Trust, who is due to attend ceremonies today
to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp.
“If they were to appoint
someone who was on the other side in the war, he would start at a
disadvantage, although it wouldn’t mean in the long run he wouldn’t be equally
understanding of the concerns of the Jewish world.”
The son of a rural
Bavarian police officer, Ratzinger was six when Hitler came to power in 1933.
His father, also called Joseph, was an anti-Nazi whose attempts to rein in
Hitler’s Brown Shirts forced the family to move home several times.
In 1937 Ratzinger’s
father retired and the family moved to Traunstein, a staunchly Catholic town
in Bavaria close to the Führer’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. He joined
the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership was made compulsory in
1941.
He quickly won a
dispensation on account of his training at a seminary. “Ratzinger was only
briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an enthusiastic one,” concluded
John Allen, his biographer.
Two years later
Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that protected a BMW factory
making aircraft engines. The workforce included slaves from Dachau
concentration camp.
Ratzinger has insisted
he never took part in combat or fired a shot — adding that his gun was not
even loaded — because of a badly infected finger. He was sent to Hungary,
where he set up tank traps and saw Jews being herded to death camps. He
deserted in April 1944 and spent a few weeks in a prisoner of war camp.
He has since said that
although he was opposed to the Nazi regime, any open resistance would have
been futile — comments echoed this weekend by his elder brother Georg, a
retired priest ordained along with the cardinal in 1951.
“Resistance was truly
impossible,” Georg Ratzinger said. “Before we were conscripted, one of our
teachers said we should fight and become heroic Nazis and another told us not
to worry as only one soldier in a thousand was killed. But neither of us ever
used a rifle against the enemy.”
Some locals in
Traunstein, like Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau
as a conscientious objector, dismiss such suggestions. “It was possible to
resist, and those people set an example for others,” she said. “The Ratzingers
were young and had made a different choice.”
END
Germany's
Cardinal Ratzinger Elected Pope
Associated Press
| April 19, 2005
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the
church's leading hard-liner, was elected the new pope Tuesday evening in the
first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI and
called himself "a simple, humble worker."
Ratzinger, the first
German pope since the 11th century, emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter's
Basilica, where he waved to a wildly cheering crowd of tens of thousands and
gave his first blessing as pope. Other cardinals clad in their crimson robes
came out on other balconies to watch him.
"Dear brothers and
sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me a
simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord," he said after being
introduced by Chilean Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estivez.
"The fact that the Lord
can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I
entrust myself to your prayers," the new pope said. "I entrust myself to your
prayers."
The crowd responded by
chanting "Benedict! Benedict!"
If the new pope was
paying tribute to the last pontiff of that name, it could be interpreted as a
bid to soften his image as the Vatican's doctrinal hard-liner. Benedict XV,
who reigned from 1914 to 1922, was a moderate following Pius X, who had
implemented a sharp crackdown against doctrinal "modernism."
On Monday, Ratzinger,
who was the powerful dean of the College of Cardinals, used his homily at the
Mass dedicated to electing the next pope to warn the faithful about tendencies
that he considered dangers to the faith: sects, ideologies like Marxism,
liberalism, atheism, agnosticism and relativism the ideology that there are no
absolute truths.
"Having a clear faith,
based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism,"
he said, speaking in Italian. "Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be
tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only
attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Ratzinger served John
Paul II since 1981 as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In that position, he has disciplined church dissidents and upheld church
policy against attempts by liberals for reforms. He turned 78 on Saturday.
The new pope had gone
into the conclave with the most buzz among two dozen leading candidates. He
had impressed many faithful with his stirring homily at the funeral of John
Paul II, who died April 2 at age 84.
Ratzinger is the first
Germanic pope since monarchs imposed four men from that region in a row in the
11th century.
END
You may say, "Well, that was a long time ago. It's
not like that anymore." But has the Vatican really changed? Let's look at
her actions during World War II. Many of you have not read our Crusaders
book, THE
GODFATHERS, or the book,
THE SECRET
HISTORY OF THE JESUITS, and, therefore, you don't really know
what happened behind the scenes during World War II. So let me give you a
brief picture of the conditions.
The Jesuits had secretly prepared World War
II, and Hitler's war machine was built and financed by the Vatican to
conquer the world for Roman Catholicism, Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were
to be the defenders of the faith. They were set up to win and conquer the
world, and set up a millennium for the pope. Behind the scenes, the Jesuits
controlled the Gestapo. All this is fully
documented in
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE JESUITS, published by Chick
Publications.
Read what the press of the Spanish dictator,
Franco, published on the 3rd of May, 1945, the day of Hitler's death. It
said, "Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic Church, died while defending
Christianity." It goes on to say, "Over his mortal remains stands his
victorious moral figure. With the palm of the martyr, God gives Hitler the
laurels of Victory."
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.
Like
Italy, Germany signed a concordat with the Vatican in Rome, 1933.
The Godfathers, by Chick Publications, pg. 20
Signing the concordat is Cardinal Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius
XII). By 1933 he was the Vatican Secretary of State. Second from left is
Franz von Papen, a sinister Nazi and devout Roman Catholic who was
Hitler's ace diplomat and the Vatican's agent in helping to bring Hitler
to power. Standing at the far right can be seen
the little-known Vatican prelate, Montini, later to become Pope Paul VI.
"The Nazi Persecution of the Churches" by J.S.
Conway, Pgs. 25, 26 & 162.
Hitler with Reich Bishop Muller and Abbot
Schachleiter, surrounded by party bosses; September 1934.
|
ADOLPH HITLER SAID:
| "I am personally
convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity,
and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted. That is why I have
turned away from Ludendorff and that is why I reject that book by
Rosenberg. It was written by a Protestant. It is not a Party book. It
was not written by him as a Party man. The Protestants can be left to
argue with him ... As a Catholic I never feel comfortable in the
Evangelical Church or its structures. That is why I will have great
difficulty if I try to regulate affairs of the Protestant churches. The
evangelical people or the Protestants will in any case reject me. But
you can be sure: I will protect the rights and freedoms of the churches
and not let them be touched, so that you need have no fears about the
future of the Church."
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., because it knew what the Jews were like.
I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the
representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am
doing Christianity a great service."
"The Nazi Persecution of the
Churches" by J.S. Conway, Pgs. 25, 26 & 162. |
The three big defenders of the Roman Catholic
faith were Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. All three had concordats with the
Vatican. When the Nazi war machine swept through the Balkans on the way to
attack Russia, Yugoslavia had become a Nazi occupied country.
Bison Picture Library & Our Sunday Visitor, March 29, 1981
The pope despised the Russian Orthodox
members. They were called Serbians and they were marked for death in
Yugoslavia. They were given one choice: to convert to Catholicism, or die.
Why were they killed? Why did the pope have
such a vendetta against the Russian Orthodox? As we said in our Crusaders
book, THE
GODFATHERS, the communist party was created by the Vatican to
destroy one of her greatest enemies, the Russian Orthodox church. The
communists had double-crossed the pope and refused to destroy the Russian
Orthodox church members and at last, Pope Pius XII had created a machine to
do what the communists had failed to do - butcher every Orthodox church
member and their clergy. Let's see how this was accomplished.
|
Stane Kukavica, a Franciscan monk, also seen in the
uniform of the Ustashi.
|
The Catholic priests changed their robes for
the uniforms of the dreaded Ustachi killer squads, and led the most
barbaric, brutal raids upon those people and practiced satanic torture never
before known in this century. We are not talking 800 years ago. We are
talking 1940. I was in high school then.
Continue
Chapter 3
The Fighting Nun is really The Fighting Nut!
Margherita Marchione has been a nun her entire life. She became known
as the "fighting nun" for her aggressiveness. She has written forty
books defending Catholicism. One of her recent books was written
in defense of wicked Pope Pious XII. There is no way that anyone can
tell enough lies and twist enough truth to defend the Catholic Church or
Pope Pious XII. The Vatican was heavily involved with carrying out the
holocaust. The photos don't lie. The statements by Hitler and
Vatican Officials don't lie. History cannot be erased. The
Catholic Church is hiding the truth.
New Pope had brief stint in the Hitler
Youth Movement
Catholicism is of the Devil!
