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I keep on thinking about it.

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I really hope this is the first sentence.

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It's such a sad sentence.

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I learned much from the Order of the
Jesuits.

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Until now, there has never been anything
more grandiose on the earth than the

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hierarchical organization of the Catholic
Church.

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I transferred much of this organization
into my own party.

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I am going to let you in on a secret.

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I am founding an Order.

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In my birds of the Order, we will raise up
a youth which will make the world tremble.

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July, 1897.

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Hitler enrolled in a monastery's choir in
school.

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Adolf continues to do well, achieving the
Austrian equivalent of straight A's.

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He will later recall, Since my free time,
I have received singing lessons in the

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cloister at Lambach.

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I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate
myself with the solemn splendor of the

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brilliant church festivals.

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It seemed to me perfectly natural to
regard the abbot as the highest and most

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desirable ideal, just as my father
regarded the village priest as his ideal.

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May, 22nd, 1904.

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Fifteen-year-old Adolf Hitler is confirmed
Roman Catholic at Linz Cathedral,

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sponsored by one of his father's
pallbearers and former customs house

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colleague.

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Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic Church,
died while defending Christianity.

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It is therefore understandable that words
cannot be found to lament over his death,

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when so many were found to exalt his life.

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Over his mortal remains stands his
victorious moral figure, with the palm of

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the martyr, God gives Hitler the laurels
of victory.

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Spanish dictator Francisco Franco,
Knight of the Order of Christ,

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published on the 3rd of May, 1945,
the day of Hitler's death.

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The Fuhrer had come to power thanks to the
votes of the Catholic Zentrum only five

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years before.

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But most of the objectives cynically
revealed in Mein Kampf are already

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realized.

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This book of insolent challenge to the
Western democracies was written by the

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Jesuit Father Stampf and signed by Hitler.

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For, as so many ignore the fact,
it was the Society of Jesus which

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perfected the famous pan-German program.

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As laid out in this book, and the Fuhrer
endorsed it.

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The Secret History of the Jesuits,
page 138.

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On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was
appointed Chancellor.

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On 23 March 1933, his government was given
legislative powers through the Enabling

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Act and was passed by all Reichstag except
for the Social Democrats and Communists

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whose deputies had already been arrested.

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Hitler had obtained the votes of the
Center Party led by prelate Ludwig Cass by

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issuing oral guarantees of the Party's
continued existence and the autonomy of

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the Church and her educational
institutions.

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He also promised good relations with the
Holy See, which some interpret as the hint

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of a future Concordat.

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Born in Trier, Cass was ordained a priest
in 1906 and studied history and canon law

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in Trier and Rome.

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In 1906, he completed a doctorate in
theology and in 1909, he obtained a second

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doctorate in philosophy.

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In 1910, he was appointed rector of an
orphanage and boarding school near

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Koblenz.

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Until 1933, he devoted his spare time to
scholarly pursuits.

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Later, Cass would frequently travel to
Rome where he would stay with Priscilla

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and he experienced first-hand the new
ladder entry, which he published on.

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In 1931 and 1932, he continued as an
advisor in negotiations for the Reich

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Concordat.

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That, however, came to nothing until 1933.

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In 1933, on 15 March, Cass was the main
advocate supporting the Hitler

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Administration's Enabling Act in return
for certain constitutional and allegedly

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ecclesiastic guarantees.

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Hitler responded positively via Franz von
Papen.

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On 23 March, Cass gave a speech outside
Reichstag voicing the center's support for

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the bill amid concerns put aside.

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This vote for the Enabling Act was a major
step in the institution of the

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dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and is
remembered as the prime example of a

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democracy voting for its own demise.

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Because of Cass's request for guarantees
and because of his later involvement in

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the Reich Concordat negotiations,
Cass and Papen traveled together to Rome

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and had discussions on the train.

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Von Papen assured Cass that a Concordat
with the new government was a sure thing.

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Cass had worked on the Reich Concordat for
over ten years.

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Now, Hitler was offering.

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The liberal Social Democrats fiercely
opposed the Enabling Act.

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Hitler needed a two-thirds majority,
so the balance lay with the Zentrum,

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the Catholic party.

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Zentrum leader Monsignor Ludwig Cass,
a close friend and advisor to Eugenio

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Fassilli, the future Pope Pius XII,
addressed the Reichstag.

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Far from attacking the Enabling Act or
disputing Hitler's claim that Nazism was

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based on Christianity, Cass called for a
yes vote.

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The Zentrum faction did vote yes and the
Act became law.

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According to the National Catholic
Reporter correspondent John Alleman.

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Cass acted in coordination with the German
bishops.

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Four days later, on March 28th,
the German bishops rescinded their ban on

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Nazi party membership.

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On April 1st, Cardinal Adolf Berthe of
Wetzlar addressed German Catholics in a

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letter warning them to reject as a matter
of principle all illegal and subversive

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activities.

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To most Catholics, it looked as if the
Church wanted a modus vivendi with Hitler.

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The same impression was created a few
weeks later when Hitler held a plebiscite

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to endorse the decision to pull Germany
out of the League of Nations, which

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received the endorsement of the Catholic
press and several Catholic bishops.

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When Hitler and the Church came to terms
for a concordat, it cemented the

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impression that Hitler was a man of the
Church which the Church could do business

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with.

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Signing the concordat is Cardinal Pacelli,
later to become Pope Pius XII.

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By 1933, he was the Vatican Secretary of
State.

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Far left is prelate Ludwig Cass,
leader of the Center Party.

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Seated second from his left is Franz von
Papen, who was a German nobleman,

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Catholic politician, general staff officer
and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of

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Germany in 1932.

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Standing at the far right can be seen the
little-known Vatican prelate, Montini,

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later to become Pope Paul VI.

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At a time when the heads of the major
nations in the world faced the new Germany

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with cool reserve and considerable
suspicion, the Catholic Church,

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the greatest moral power on earth,
through the concordat, expressed its

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confidence in the new German government.

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There was religious freedom for Catholics
during Nazi Germany, per the terms of the

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concordat between the Holy See and the
German Reich.

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Article I.

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The German Reich guarantees freedom of
profession and public practice of the

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Catholic religion.

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Another well-informed person, the
mainspring of the pact between the Holy

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See and Berlin and the Pope's secret
chamberlain, Franz von Papen, was even

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more explicit.

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The Third Reich is the first world power
which not only acknowledges, but also puts

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into practice the high principles of the
Papacy.

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To this we will add the results of this
putting into practice of the high

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principles of the Papacy.

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25 million victims of the concentration
camps, the official figure issued by the

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United Nations.

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Secret History of the Jesuits,
page 164.

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Pope Benedict XVI, current Pope when he
was in the Hitler Youth.

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His father, Joseph Ratzinger Sr.,
was an Ordnungspolizei, also known as

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Orpo.

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The Orpo was the name for the uniformed
regular German police force that existed

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in Nazi Germany between the years of 1936
and 1945.

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After their green uniforms, they were also
referred to as Grünpolizei, Green Police.

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Joseph Ratzinger Sr. served in the
Bavarian Landespolizei for several years

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as a rural policeman.

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Various sources state that the Ratzinger's
views toward the National Socialist German

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Workers Party caused the family some
hardship, including the family having to

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move several times in the 1930s.

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There is no evidence, however,
that Joseph Ratzinger Sr. was ever

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arrested for anti-Nazi tendencies.

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He continued to serve in the police even
after such events as the Night of the Long

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Knives and the passing of the Nuremberg
Laws.

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In 1936, Joseph Ratzinger Sr. became a
member of the Orpo after all the police

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forces of Nazi Germany were incorporated
into a national police force.

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Here are some pictures of Dominican monks
serving meals to Nazis.

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You can see how this could play a role in
the conscience of the Nazi.

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The religion he grew up in was supporting
their fascism.

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Who is more evil?

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The Roman Catholic Church, of course.

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Although the Nazis are not by any means
innocent.

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The Inquisition was suggested by Dominic
de Guzman and was begun in 1204.

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It was hell's masterpiece of crime,
perfidy, cruelty, and all-around

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wickedness.

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It was conducted with the rankest
injustice.

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The victim was dragged into court without
witness and without any information as to

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what the charge against him.

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He was not allowed an attorney or the
presence of friends.

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But under the cruelest torture,
it was demanded that he recant his

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heresies, oftentimes not knowing what the
item in charge of which he was to recant.

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Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, and most
members of the party's old guard were

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Catholics, wrote M.

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Frederick Hoffert.

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It was not by acting that, because of its
chief religion, the National Socialist

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Government was the most Catholic Germany
ever had.

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This kinship between National Socialism
and Catholicism is most striking if we

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study closely the propaganda methods and
the interior organization of the party.

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On that subject, nothing is more
instructive than Joseph Goebbels' works.

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He had been brought up in a Jesuit college
and was a seminarist before devoting

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himself to literature and politics.

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Every page, every line of his writings
recall the teaching of his masters.

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So he stresses obedience and contempt for
truth.

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Some lies are as useful as bread,
he proclaimed with virtue of moral

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relativism extracted from Ignatius of
Loyola's writings.

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Joseph Goebbels.

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He was Nazi member of the Reichstag from
1928 to 1933.

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Reich Minister of Enlightenment and
Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

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Reich Commissioner for Total Mobilization
from 1944 to 1945.

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On May 1st, 1945, he poisoned his six
children, then shot his wife and killed

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himself to escape the advancing Allied
armies.

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Joseph Goebbels was born into a strict
Catholic working class family from Rheyd

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in the Rhineland on October 29th,
1897.

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He was educated at a Roman Catholic school
and went on to study history and

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literature at the University of
Heidelberg.

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Goebbels was exempted from military
service during World War I because of a

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crippled foot, the result of contracting
polio as a child.

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Joseph Goebbels' wife Magda, whose Jewish
father died at the Buchenwald slave labor

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camp and the six children whom they killed
before killing themselves.

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The eldest son in uniform by Magda's
previous marriage was in the Luftwaffe and

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survived the war.

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Goebbels was so close to fellow Catholic
Hitler that he had him serve as first

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witness at his Catholic marriage.

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Heinrich Himmler, the son of a pious,
authoritarian Roman Catholic schoolmaster

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who had once been tutored to the Bavarian
Crown Prince.

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His mother, Anna Maria Himmler,
maiden name Hader, was also a devout

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Catholic.

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Kurt Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer of the
SS, Gestapo, and German police forces,

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seemed to be one of the most impregnated
by clericalism amongst the Catholic

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members of Hitler's entourage.

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His father had been director of a Catholic
school in Munich, then tutor of Prince

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Ruprecht of Bavaria.

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His brother, a Benedictine monk,
lived at the monastery of Maria Lach,

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one of the pan-German high places.

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He also had an uncle, Jesuit Himmler,
who had held the important position of

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canon at the court of Bavaria.

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The German author Walter Hagen gives also
this discreet information.

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The Jesuits general, Count Halk von
Ledwitzowski, was ready to organize,

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on the common basis of anti-communism,
some collaboration between the German

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secret service and the Jesuit order.

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As a result, within the SS central
security service, an organization was

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created and most of its main posts were
held by Catholic priests, wearing the

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black uniform of the SS.

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The Jesuit Father Himmler was one of its
superior officers.

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After the Third Reich's capitulation,
the Jesuit Father Himmler was arrested and

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imprisoned at Nuremberg.

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His hearing by the international tribunal
would have apparently been most

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interesting, but Providence was keeping a
watchful eye.

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Heinrich Himmler's uncle never appeared
before that court.

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One morning, he was found dead in his
cell, and the public never learned the

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cause of his death.

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Another highly placed Nazi, Walter
Schellenberg, former chief of the German

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counter-espionage, completed this
confidence from the Führer after the war.

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The SS organization had been constituted
by Himmler according to the principles of

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the Jesuit's order.

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Their regulations and the spiritual
exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola

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were the model Himmler tried to copy
exactly.

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The Reich's Führer SS, Himmler's title as
supreme chief of the SS, was to be the

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equivalent of the Jesuit's general,
and the whole structure of the direction

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was a close imitation of the Catholic
church's hierarchical order.

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A medieval castle near Paderborn in
Westphalia, and called Webelsburg,

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was restored.

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It became what could be called an SS
monastery.

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