refers Below is another important piece of the puzzle that early and active involvement of the Vatican in the rise of the Hitler regime shows. Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, the then chairman of the Center Party, that is the political wing of Catholicism, had tried for a long time to get a concordat between Germany and the Vatican on his way. Now, with the specific aim of offering Hitler seemed much nearer to reality, and was for this purpose and further promises Kaas and the Centre Party 'tongue' the scales prepared to vote for the Enabling Act, which the story could finally take its disastrous run.
The following article is taken in several books referred to, for example, in "Behind the Dictators - A Factual Analysis of the Relationship of Nazi-Fascism and Roman Catholicism" by Leo H. Lehmann in 1942 and "No Friend of Democracy "by Edith Moore from 1941. An equally important piece of the puzzle is for example the testimony of Sister Pascalina Lehnert, the personal assistant of Pope Pius XII. In which it is literally a gift of money to fight the godless communism of Eugenio Pacelli, the later Pope Pius XII., reminiscent of the young Adolf Hitler. " .. Has
["] is this what Fritz Thyssen reveals that man was as chairman of the powerful Group of the 'United Steel Works' one of the main financial backers of Hitler, before he came to power a few months ago he escaped from Germany to Switzerland; and a letter from him to his colleagues published the Basel 'workers' newspaper on 31 January 1940, the following excerpts:
' Over the many years during which I could watch the Nazi regime - and as State and business leaders I had ample opportunity to do so - I'm with a constantly growing concern and, most recently with true Horror realized what a serious mistake I made in 1932 when I, together with Mr. von Papen, von Schroeder, Kirdford and Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, it took the Nazis to redevelop, financially, and we speak as a guarantor of Hitler's good behavior Germany and the world about the responsibility on us, invited him to admit to power.
time, just like today, and since then, Hitler promised everything we wanted: Herr von Papen power and honors, Mr. Krupp jobs and money, mountains of money. We are all one in particular deign course of German politics inside and outside; understanding with England; agreement with the workers, by broad should be social welfare for the loss of all political rights, the destruction of unions and the expropriation of their assets and compensation reconciled with the authoritarian regime. It hovered in front of us a kind of Christian corporate state, whose authority on the Church - to the west, the Catholic, to the east, the Protestant - should be based and to the military ...
Hitler promised now, which I was the main point, solemn and explicitly not to touch the rights of the Catholic Church. He repeated this pledge in a several-hour conversation with Monsignor Kaas, who on behalf of the then Papal Nuncio Pacelli, the current pope Pius XII. and without the knowledge of the Chairman of the Centre Party, Reich Chancellor Brüning visited. This conversation brought about the overthrow of the last legal German government Bruning and marked the beginning of the period of German and European politics, today we owe the second world war. The Catholic Church, rather, the diplomatic mastery of Nuncio Pacelli, the right-imprinted actually the whole policy of the last years of the Weimar Republic was their mark, the only defeat of Hitler, the Concordat that he has not openly and with brutal Violence has broken. But the truth of this concordat exists from his first day only paper, because it depends on the spirit that meets the letter of a contract with life, gives meaning and content "
These confessions, Basler of the 'workers' newspaper under the heading' Pius XII - as nuncio. . - brought Hitler to power published ', were of the Catholic press understandably immediately strongly attacked and declared to be untrue inaccurate in fact, to Thyssen's statements on the following: nuncio in Berlin was the time of the Reich Chancellor Brüning's not Pacelli, but Orsenigo ; Brüning was not then Chairman of the Centre Party (which was Prelate Kaas), but Chairman of the Center Party in the Reichstag
prelate. Kaas disputes from Rome, even during the reign of Bruning to have conferred with Hitler. This statement is contradicted testimony. Whether Kaas deserves more credit than Thyssen, like any judge for themselves. The representations of Thyssen's actually recognizable as wrong is certainly insignificant in relation to the main points: first
Together with von Papen and other Catholic politicians Thyssen floated in his plans to establish a 'Christian state' before.
second To this end, these Catholics secret agreements met with the Catholic Hitler financed his movement and guaranteed in the German ruling classes for Hitler 'governability'.
third As a key point was when the deal with Hitler to save the power of the Catholic Church and extend through the conclusion of a Reich Concordat.
4th A conversation between a representative of the Roman Curia and Hitler - to Thyssen's presentation - sealed the deal.
Whether Thyssen is a sympathetic character or not does not matter. Sympathetic characters to look behind the scenes is usually futile labor of love anyway. Other people can, as such, from behind the scenes but did not tell tales out of school. When Thyssen speaks, after all, speaks a man who was behind the scenes, as the freedom of the German People were bartered. ...
Is it now likely that Thyssen and his confession is essentially telling the truth or not? There are no convincing reasons to believe that his revelations would be a lie, but there are many reasons for their accuracy. The game, which he reveals, is consistent with what is observed in the Vatican's policy in all five continents.
Stands state idea is derived from the Pope's encyclical 'Quadragesimo anno' Down, released in May 1931, at the time of those intrigues in Germany that is still fairly new and probably was capable of a Catholic politician to excuse or encourage an intrigue to . Offer In an attempt to realize this idea, practically, Thyssen, von Papen, etc. so not alone, but Catholic politicians and dignitaries around the world, among them. Even in conservative Catholic circles in Switzerland such propaganda can be found. practical requirement for the corporate state experiment is the elimination of democracy , how has this in Austria, Portugal, the Canadian province of Quebec (under Cardinal Villeneuve), etc. shown.
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But quite apart from all the intrigue has indicated the attempt, the center, so the political Catholicism of the complicity of the German tragedy redeem fail if only because so approved in addition to all bourgeois parties and the center of the Enabling Act Hitler , So involved was to declare him to four years to the absolute dictator and hand over the German people at the mercy.
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against the minority wing to put it Brüning by the consent of the Centre Party to the Enabling Act. His opposition was "weaker than Hitler spoke of a Concordat and Papen assured that such was virtually guaranteed. That was the question that most interested Kaas, from his whole world view out. "(Heinrich Bruning: Memoirs 1918-1934 Stuttgart 1970, p. 656.)
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