I keep on thinking about it.
I really hope this is the first sentence.
It's such a sad sentence.
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.
I am going to let you in on a secret.
I am founding an Order.
In my birds of the Order, we will raise up a youth which will make the world tremble.
July, 1897.
Hitler enrolled in a monastery's choir in school.
Adolf continues to do well, achieving the Austrian equivalent of straight A's.
He will later recall, Since my free time, I have received singing lessons in the
cloister at Lambach.
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the
brilliant church festivals.
It seemed to me perfectly natural to regard the abbot as the highest and most
desirable ideal, just as my father regarded the village priest as his ideal.
May, 22nd, 1904.
Fifteen-year-old Adolf Hitler is confirmed Roman Catholic at Linz Cathedral,
sponsored by one of his father's pallbearers and former customs house
colleague.
Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic Church, died while defending Christianity.
It is therefore understandable that words cannot be found to lament over his death,
when so many were found to exalt his life.
Over his mortal remains stands his victorious moral figure, with the palm of
the martyr, God gives Hitler the laurels of victory.
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, Knight of the Order of Christ,
published on the 3rd of May, 1945, the day of Hitler's death.
The Fuhrer had come to power thanks to the votes of the Catholic Zentrum only five
years before.
But most of the objectives cynically revealed in Mein Kampf are already
realized.
This book of insolent challenge to the Western democracies was written by the
Jesuit Father Stampf and signed by Hitler.
For, as so many ignore the fact, it was the Society of Jesus which
perfected the famous pan-German program.
As laid out in this book, and the Fuhrer endorsed it.
The Secret History of the Jesuits, page 138.
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor.
On 23 March 1933, his government was given legislative powers through the Enabling
Act and was passed by all Reichstag except for the Social Democrats and Communists
whose deputies had already been arrested.
Hitler had obtained the votes of the Center Party led by prelate Ludwig Cass by
issuing oral guarantees of the Party's continued existence and the autonomy of
the Church and her educational institutions.
He also promised good relations with the Holy See, which some interpret as the hint
of a future Concordat.
Born in Trier, Cass was ordained a priest in 1906 and studied history and canon law
in Trier and Rome.
In 1906, he completed a doctorate in theology and in 1909, he obtained a second
doctorate in philosophy.
In 1910, he was appointed rector of an orphanage and boarding school near
Koblenz.
Until 1933, he devoted his spare time to scholarly pursuits.
Later, Cass would frequently travel to Rome where he would stay with Priscilla
and he experienced first-hand the new ladder entry, which he published on.
In 1931 and 1932, he continued as an advisor in negotiations for the Reich
Concordat.
That, however, came to nothing until 1933.
In 1933, on 15 March, Cass was the main advocate supporting the Hitler
Administration's Enabling Act in return for certain constitutional and allegedly
ecclesiastic guarantees.
Hitler responded positively via Franz von Papen.
On 23 March, Cass gave a speech outside Reichstag voicing the center's support for
the bill amid concerns put aside.
This vote for the Enabling Act was a major step in the institution of the
dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and is remembered as the prime example of a
democracy voting for its own demise.
Because of Cass's request for guarantees and because of his later involvement in
the Reich Concordat negotiations, Cass and Papen traveled together to Rome
and had discussions on the train.
Von Papen assured Cass that a Concordat with the new government was a sure thing.
Cass had worked on the Reich Concordat for over ten years.
Now, Hitler was offering.
The liberal Social Democrats fiercely opposed the Enabling Act.
Hitler needed a two-thirds majority, so the balance lay with the Zentrum,
the Catholic party.
Zentrum leader Monsignor Ludwig Cass, a close friend and advisor to Eugenio
Fassilli, the future Pope Pius XII, addressed the Reichstag.
Far from attacking the Enabling Act or disputing Hitler's claim that Nazism was
based on Christianity, Cass called for a yes vote.
The Zentrum faction did vote yes and the Act became law.
According to the National Catholic Reporter correspondent John Alleman.
Cass acted in coordination with the German bishops.
Four days later, on March 28th, the German bishops rescinded their ban on
Nazi party membership.
On April 1st, Cardinal Adolf Berthe of Wetzlar addressed German Catholics in a
letter warning them to reject as a matter of principle all illegal and subversive
activities.
To most Catholics, it looked as if the Church wanted a modus vivendi with Hitler.
The same impression was created a few weeks later when Hitler held a plebiscite
to endorse the decision to pull Germany out of the League of Nations, which
received the endorsement of the Catholic press and several Catholic bishops.
When Hitler and the Church came to terms for a concordat, it cemented the
impression that Hitler was a man of the Church which the Church could do business
with.
Signing the concordat is Cardinal Pacelli, later to become Pope Pius XII.
By 1933, he was the Vatican Secretary of State.
Far left is prelate Ludwig Cass, leader of the Center Party.
Seated second from his left is Franz von Papen, who was a German nobleman,
Catholic politician, general staff officer and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of
Germany in 1932.
Standing at the far right can be seen the little-known Vatican prelate, Montini,
later to become Pope Paul VI.
At a time when the heads of the major nations in the world faced the new Germany
with cool reserve and considerable suspicion, the Catholic Church,
the greatest moral power on earth, through the concordat, expressed its
confidence in the new German government.
There was religious freedom for Catholics during Nazi Germany, per the terms of the
concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich.
Article I.
The German Reich guarantees freedom of profession and public practice of the
Catholic religion.
Another well-informed person, the mainspring of the pact between the Holy
See and Berlin and the Pope's secret chamberlain, Franz von Papen, was even
more explicit.
The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges, but also puts
into practice the high principles of the Papacy.
To this we will add the results of this putting into practice of the high
principles of the Papacy.
25 million victims of the concentration camps, the official figure issued by the
United Nations.
Secret History of the Jesuits, page 164.
Pope Benedict XVI, current Pope when he was in the Hitler Youth.
His father, Joseph Ratzinger Sr., was an Ordnungspolizei, also known as
Orpo.
The Orpo was the name for the uniformed regular German police force that existed
in Nazi Germany between the years of 1936 and 1945.
After their green uniforms, they were also referred to as Grünpolizei, Green Police.
Joseph Ratzinger Sr. served in the Bavarian Landespolizei for several years
as a rural policeman.
Various sources state that the Ratzinger's views toward the National Socialist German
Workers Party caused the family some hardship, including the family having to
move several times in the 1930s.
There is no evidence, however, that Joseph Ratzinger Sr. was ever
arrested for anti-Nazi tendencies.
He continued to serve in the police even after such events as the Night of the Long
Knives and the passing of the Nuremberg Laws.
In 1936, Joseph Ratzinger Sr. became a member of the Orpo after all the police
forces of Nazi Germany were incorporated into a national police force.
Here are some pictures of Dominican monks serving meals to Nazis.
You can see how this could play a role in the conscience of the Nazi.
The religion he grew up in was supporting their fascism.
Who is more evil?
The Roman Catholic Church, of course.
Although the Nazis are not by any means innocent.
The Inquisition was suggested by Dominic de Guzman and was begun in 1204.
It was hell's masterpiece of crime, perfidy, cruelty, and all-around
wickedness.
It was conducted with the rankest injustice.
The victim was dragged into court without witness and without any information as to
what the charge against him.
He was not allowed an attorney or the presence of friends.
But under the cruelest torture, it was demanded that he recant his
heresies, oftentimes not knowing what the item in charge of which he was to recant.
Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, and most members of the party's old guard were
Catholics, wrote M.
Frederick Hoffert.
It was not by acting that, because of its chief religion, the National Socialist
Government was the most Catholic Germany ever had.
This kinship between National Socialism and Catholicism is most striking if we
study closely the propaganda methods and the interior organization of the party.
On that subject, nothing is more instructive than Joseph Goebbels' works.
He had been brought up in a Jesuit college and was a seminarist before devoting
himself to literature and politics.
Every page, every line of his writings recall the teaching of his masters.
So he stresses obedience and contempt for truth.
Some lies are as useful as bread, he proclaimed with virtue of moral
relativism extracted from Ignatius of Loyola's writings.
Joseph Goebbels.
He was Nazi member of the Reichstag from 1928 to 1933.
Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
Reich Commissioner for Total Mobilization from 1944 to 1945.
On May 1st, 1945, he poisoned his six children, then shot his wife and killed
himself to escape the advancing Allied armies.
Joseph Goebbels was born into a strict Catholic working class family from Rheyd
in the Rhineland on October 29th, 1897.
He was educated at a Roman Catholic school and went on to study history and
literature at the University of Heidelberg.
Goebbels was exempted from military service during World War I because of a
crippled foot, the result of contracting polio as a child.
Joseph Goebbels' wife Magda, whose Jewish father died at the Buchenwald slave labor
camp and the six children whom they killed before killing themselves.
The eldest son in uniform by Magda's previous marriage was in the Luftwaffe and
survived the war.
Goebbels was so close to fellow Catholic Hitler that he had him serve as first
witness at his Catholic marriage.
Heinrich Himmler, the son of a pious, authoritarian Roman Catholic schoolmaster
who had once been tutored to the Bavarian Crown Prince.
His mother, Anna Maria Himmler, maiden name Hader, was also a devout
Catholic.
Kurt Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer of the SS, Gestapo, and German police forces,
seemed to be one of the most impregnated by clericalism amongst the Catholic
members of Hitler's entourage.
His father had been director of a Catholic school in Munich, then tutor of Prince
Ruprecht of Bavaria.
His brother, a Benedictine monk, lived at the monastery of Maria Lach,
one of the pan-German high places.
He also had an uncle, Jesuit Himmler, who had held the important position of
canon at the court of Bavaria.
The German author Walter Hagen gives also this discreet information.
The Jesuits general, Count Halk von Ledwitzowski, was ready to organize,
on the common basis of anti-communism, some collaboration between the German
secret service and the Jesuit order.
As a result, within the SS central security service, an organization was
created and most of its main posts were held by Catholic priests, wearing the
black uniform of the SS.
The Jesuit Father Himmler was one of its superior officers.
After the Third Reich's capitulation, the Jesuit Father Himmler was arrested and
imprisoned at Nuremberg.
His hearing by the international tribunal would have apparently been most
interesting, but Providence was keeping a watchful eye.
Heinrich Himmler's uncle never appeared before that court.
One morning, he was found dead in his cell, and the public never learned the
cause of his death.
Another highly placed Nazi, Walter Schellenberg, former chief of the German
counter-espionage, completed this confidence from the Führer after the war.
The SS organization had been constituted by Himmler according to the principles of
the Jesuit's order.
Their regulations and the spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola
were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly.
The Reich's Führer SS, Himmler's title as supreme chief of the SS, was to be the
equivalent of the Jesuit's general, and the whole structure of the direction
was a close imitation of the Catholic church's hierarchical order.
A medieval castle near Paderborn in Westphalia, and called Webelsburg,
was restored.
It became what could be called an SS monastery.
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