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To start with the original 20th century
totalitarian ideology, which originally

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called itself fascism, if in any account
you read of fascism, historical account

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you read, from its origins in Italy,
through Spain, Portugal, Croatia,

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Hungary, Slovakia, etc., if you take out
the word fascist and put Catholic right

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wing, it's the same story.

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There's no difference.

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And if you add parties in political
alliance with the Vatican, it's the same.

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All of them.

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Fascism is another word for the Christian
Catholic right wing.

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In Slovakia, the actual head of the
fascist dictatorship was a priest,

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Father Tiso.

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In almost every case the regime was in
holy orders and or with the direct

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alliance with the Pope himself.

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That's a simple matter.

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Anyone can check it out.

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I'm not going to search it now.

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I'll just say fact checking and I would be
as one on this point.

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Now that's not completely true in National
Socialism.

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It's true of the Nazi party in Austria and
Bavaria, in its heartlands, that it begins

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blessed by the Vatican, by a concordat
with the church, by the Protestant

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churches also.

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But it's not true to say it's a Christian
movement in quite the same way.

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It's a pagan movement to some extent.

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My favorite example is this, I suppose.

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Joseph Goebbels was expelled from the
Catholic church.

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He was.

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He was the only Nazi who was.

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Why was he expelled?

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For marrying a divorced Protestant.

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Magda Goebbels.

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You see, the church does have its
standards.

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However, it is estimated by Paul Johnson,
a Catholic historian, that more than 40%

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of the Waffen-SS were practicing
confessing Catholics.

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No one was ever excommunicated or
threatened with excommunication for taking

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part in the Final Session.

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And that was because of the alliance
between the Nazi party and the church on

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two main things, anti-Bolshevism and
anti-Semitism.