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In reply to the discussion: How religion can drive someone to slaughter his fellow citizens – and believe they deserve it [View all]Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)45. Here it is
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The Vatican Concordat With Hitler's Reich
Seventy years ago a fateful meeting occurred in Rome. The Vaticans secretary of state, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII), and Germanys vice chancellor, Franz von Papen, formally signed a concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich on July 20, 1933. This event ended negotiations that began after Adolf Hitler became Germanys chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933. Among the witnesses to this event were Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini (the future Pope Paul VI) and Msgr. Ludwig Kaas, the leader of Germanys Catholic Center Party. Neither Pope Pius XI nor Hitler attended the meeting; both had already approved of the concordat. The pope ratified the agreement two months later on Sept. 10. The Concordat of 1933 specified the churchs rights in the Third Reich.
The political significance of the signing of the Concordat of 1933 was, however, ambiguous in its day and still remains so. Hitler interpreted the concordat to mean that he had won the churchs approval, thereby gaining international recognition of his Nazi regime. At least some German Catholics took the signing of the treaty as an indication that church officials had softened their opposition to National Socialism. Some political commentators, journalists and historiansthen and nowhave viewed this event as a manifestation of Pope Pius XIs and Cardinal Pacellis underlying motives, which allegedly included their preference for dictatorships over democracies, their readiness to use Nazi Germany as a bulwark against the spread into Europe of Stalins Communism and their disregard for German Jews.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/448/article/vatican-concordat-hitlers-reich
As I said you need to brush up on history. This just touches the surface.
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You didn't really read what I wrote either...A common DU experience, I'm afraid.
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