An article on Hitler
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"THE VATICAN COOPERATES WITH HITLER IN BLOODBATH
While it may be true that individual Catholics risked their lives to save the Jews from Nazi annihilation, the Church, as an entity, did not. Roman Catholic intelligence operations assisted thousands of Nazi war criminals such as Adolph Eichmann, Franz Stangl (the commandant of Treblinka), Walter Rauf (the inventor of the "mobile" gas chamber), Klaus Barbie (the "Butcher of Lyons") and Ante Pavelic (the bloody dictator of Croatia) to escape from justice. Pope Pius XII personally authorized the smuggling of Nazi war criminals, which was directed by his political advisor Giovanni Montini (later known as Pope Paul VI). Right after World War I, the Roman Catholic states of Croatia and Slovenia united with the Eastern Orthodox state of Serbia to form the nation of Yugoslavia. Immediately the Croats formed a terrorist network aimed, called the Ustashi, at the Serbs, headed by Ante Pavilec, financed by Mussolini. When King Alexander I of Yugoslavia visited France in 1934, he was assassinated at Marseilles by Pavelic. Although Pavelic was convicted in both the French and Yugoslav courts, he escaped to Italy where Mussolini gave him protection and refused to surrender him.
In 1941, the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia and Pavelic joined them. Hitler rewarded Pavelic by making him the head of the new "Independent State of Croatia". Boettner, in his book Roman Catholicism, states:
"His [Pavelic] minister of religion was Andrya Artukovic, another Roman Catholic. Then began a war of suppression or extermination of all Serbs and Jews. Nearly 70,000 of the 80,000 Jews in the new state were killed or forced to flee, their property being confiscated. Official records and photographs show that Pavelic and archbishop Stepinac were closely associated in governmental, social, and ecclesiastical affairs. Stepinac was appointed supreme military apostolic vicar of the Ustashi army led by Pavelic. He was, therefore, in a position to know of the atrocities that were constantly taking place. In May, 1941, after innumerable massacres had been committed, Pavelic went to Rome and was received by Pope Pius Xll, and on the same occasion signed a treaty with Mussolini."
John Loftus (attorney who worked for the Justice Dept. Nazi-hunting unit--also an expert witness before Congress) and Mark Aarons (international award winning investigative reporter with Austria Broadcasting Corp.) corroborate Boettner's historical facts in their book Unholy Trinity, p. 70-87:
"Pavelic had many reasons for concern, among them the horrific massacres of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies over the previous four years; half a million innocent civilians slaughtered at his personal command. Many had been dispatched using extremely medieval methods; eyes had been gouged out, limbs severed, intestines and other internal organs ripped from the bodies of the living. Some were slaughtered like beasts. Many more were simply burned alive."
Scott and John Lee Anderson in their book Inside The League (Dodd Mead and Co. 1986) also provide more detail of their atrocities.
"The Ustashi competed among themselves on how many of `the enemy' they could kill. In order to impress the poglavnik-Pavelic and be promoted or singled out for `heroism,' the bands would pose with their victims before cameras. Captured photographs --they are too grisly to reproduce -- show Ustashi beheading a Serb with an axe, driving a saw through the neck of another, carrying a head through the streets of Zagreb. In all of them, the Ustashi are smiling and crowding themselves into the picture, as if to prove they had a role in the atrocity. Some Ustase collected the eyes of Serbs they had killed, sending them, when they had enough, to the Poglavnik for his inspection or proudly displaying them and other human organs in the cafes of Zagreb."
THE POPE REWARDS THE MURDERERS
All these atrocities, and Pavelic still expected to be greeted by both the Church and British leaders as a prominent Catholic in the struggle against 'atheistic Bolshevism'...Pavelic was also aware that Pius XII and his senior advisers held extremely charitable opinions of his militant Catholicism. The Pope did receive Pavelic. However, the British Foreign Office reacted in outrage, calling Pope Pius XII "the greatest moral coward of our age."
In the same year that the Pope met with Pavelic, more than 100,000 Orthodox Serbian men, women and children were killed by the Ustashi:
"In all, some 250 Eastern Orthodox churches were destroyed or turned over to Roman Catholic parishes and convents. Documents requesting and authorizing such transfers are now in the state prosecutor's office at Zagreb and Sarajevo, bearing the signature of Aarchbishop Stepinac. In February, 1942, a TE DEUM was sung in Stepinac’s church in Zagreb, then the capital of Croatia, with special honors paid to Pavelic. In a pastoral letter, Stepinac declared that in spite of complexities, what they were seeing in Croatia was ‘the Lord's work,' and called on his priests to support Pavelic" (Roman Catholicism, Boettner, p. 436).
The reason for the support is because "during the war Pavelic had forcibly converted tens of thousands of Serbian Eastern Orthodox under penalty of death." (Loftus and Aaron) Although Pavelic was able to keep his death camps running even as the German death camps were being dismantled by advancing Allied armies, eventually Pavelic and the Roman Catholic priests had to run for their lives. The Yugoslav courts sentenced Stepinac to sixteen years imprisonment for his Nazi-Fascist collaboration, where he only served 5 years. Walter Montano, in his book Behind the Purple Curtain, expounds on the charges for which Stepinac was found guilty:
“A parade of prosecution witnesses testified at Zagreb, on October 5, 1946, that Catholic priests armed with pistols went out to convert Orthodox Serbs and massacred them. . . . Most of the witnesses were Croat Catholic peasants and laborers. One witness said six hundred and fifty Serbs were taken into a church under false pretenses, and then were stabbed and beaten to death by Ustashi members after the doors were locked. Archbishop Stepinac was convicted on all principal counts of aiding the Axis, the puppet Croatian regime of Ante Pavelic, and the terrorists Ustashi, and of glorifying the Ustashi in the Catholic press, pastoral letters, and speeches.” (237-238)
The sentence against Stepinac was answered by the Vatican's Osseruatore Romano denouncing it as "ignominous" and said the “trial was a trial against the Catholic Church”. (Ibid., 238) Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, said that Archbishop Stepinac was "a victim of the forces that seek to destroy men's freedom, ruin America, and dominate the world." (Ibid., 238) He also said the Yugoslav Archbishop had "defended the cause of true liberty for his hungry and harassed people" through the war, adding that the person and principles of Archbishop Stepinac were "violated". [Cutting Edge Note: Isn't it amazing how easy it is for men to "rewrite" history? Here, Archbishop Spellman and the Vatican are whitewashing the most heinous crimes possible by a few words that sound glorious, and even patriotic. This type of Hellish cover-up is one of the main reasons Jesus Christ must conduct a White Throne Judgment at the end of His Millennial Reign.]
But, notice, below, how this whitewashing of this Hitler-type genocide continues by American Roman Catholic leadership:
"Bishop Charles F. Buddy of San Diego, California, wired President Truman asking for a ‘straight forward fearless protest of the infamous persecution of Archbishop Stepinac and the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia. Liberty-loving Americans are not indifferent to the vicious travesty intended to discredit this great patriot who has valiantly championed the rights of his people” (Behind the Purple Curtain, Montano, 239)
Now, we are told it is OK to "champion the rights" of one people by annihilating another people?!
"Until his death in 1960, he [Stepinac] was played up in Roman Catholic circles, particularly in the U.S., as a ‘martyr,’ even to the extent that Cardinal Spellman, in New York, named a parochial high school after him" (Roman Catholicism, Boettner, 437; Emphasis added).
Just think, a school named after the murderer, Archbishop Stepinac, who said:"God, who directs the destiny of nations and controls the hearts of Kings, has given us Ante Pavelic and moved the leader of a friendly and allied people, Adolph Hitler, to use his victorious troops to disperse our oppressors...Glory be to God, our gratitude to Adolf Hitler and loyalty to our Poglavnik, Ante Pavelic" (A Woman Rides The Beast, Hunt, 301 ).
[Cutting Edge Note: Despite the crimes committed by Pavelic, Hitler, and Archbishop Stepinac, in particular, plus the Vatican in general, Stepinac dared to speak most gloriously about this murderous campaign of genocide against entire populations, man, woman, and child. But, lest you think that the Roman Catholic Church has changed, the Pope is preparing for another genocidal campaign during the coming New World Order of Antichrist. The New World Order Plan has named the Pope as the top Religious leader in their new global religion {Read NEWS1052 for full details}.
Further, Pope John Paul II reinstated the old Office of the Inquisition in 1983, led by Cardinal Ratzinger. As close as the world is to the appearance of Antichrist, we find it highly interesting that the Pope would revive the office which led the infamous Inquisitions from 1550-1850, a time period in which over 8 million Born Again Christians were martyred. Certainly, the Pope seems to be preparing for the Biblically prophesied holocaust of Revelation 13:16-18, when the False Prophet causes all the peoples of the world to take the Mark of the Beast. Surely, the same Vatican which has the blood of 8 million Christians on its hands, and the blood of Eastern European innocents on its hands, will have no difficulty assuming the leadership in history's last, and most horrific, genocide.]
The Church of Rome has a policy regarding freedom of religion: when they are in the minority, they want freedom from persecution; when in the majority, freedom to persecute. Rome has proven over and over again by their actions, when in power ... they persecute. Mussolini, and all the priests and Catholics that assisted them {Note: Pavelic, Hitler, and Mussolini were all Catholics}, were never excommunicated, or even severely censured for their actions. As a matter of fact, Rome went to great lengths to defend the actions of Stepinac..."
Of course, there are many quotes from Hitler to show that he truly detested Christianity, but this does not excuse church actions, does it?? |
