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Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators, by Paul R. Bartrop and Eve E. Grimm. 2019. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California

LGBT Copies Nazi Magic. Catholic Church Did Not Help Nazis Escape Justice

This work offers 1-2 page biographies of the top 150 Nazis. All but a handful were Germans or Austrians, belying, with trivialities aside, the silly apologetic about “not all Nazis were Germans”. I focus on a few distinctive issues that are seldom mentioned in works on the German-made Holocaust.

LGBT COPIES NAZI MAGIC: FORCING THE BIBLE INTO AN IDEOLOGICAL STRAIGHTJACKET: THEN AND NOW

In discussing the theological work of Nazi Wilhelm Teudt (1860-1942), the authors write, “American readers knew of Teudt’s removal of all references to Jews as he worked through the Old Testament. They read about it in the pages of their newspapers and discussed the issue in their churches…In 1939, he [Hitler] authorized the creation of what today would be called a think tank to rewrite the Bible completely; its charge was to remove all reference to Jews and Judeo-Christian notions of compassion. Those appointed to work on this thoroughly Nazi version of the Bible had the brief of ‘cleansing’ church texts ‘of all non-Aryan influences'” (p. 286).

Exactly the same thing happens today. Some feminist and LGBT spokespersons “remake” Scripture to fit their ideology. They would have us believe that we have “misunderstood” the Bible all this time, that the Bible does not actually forbid homosexuality, and that the Bible is not clear about how many genders there are. These revisionists make about as much sense as did the Nazis of old.

TODAY’S ATHEISTS COPY NAZI CALUMNIES ABOUT THE BIBLE

Nazi Julius Streicher’s DER STUERMER (January 1935) had this to say about the Bible, “The history book of the Jews which is usually called the ‘Holy Scriptures’ impresses us as a horrible criminal romance…This ‘holy’ book abounds in murder, incest, fraud, theft, and indecency.” (p. 325).

This scurrilous Nazi message is exactly what atheists say about the Bible today. The only difference is that the Nazis slandered the Bible because it was written by the Jews, while the atheists slander the Bible because it because it is about God.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS IN NO SENSE PRO-NAZI

Enter Austrian bishop Alois Hudal (1855-1963). Hudal was a pro-Nazi aberration, and was soon rejected by the Church for this very reason. Bartop and Grimm write, “Hudal’s 1937 book, The Foundations of National Socialism, embraced the Nazi Party and reflected his belief that a working relationship should be established between Catholicism and Nazism. It was in direct opposition with the foreign policy of Pope Pius XI, whose 1937 encyclical, Mit brennender Sorge (With Burning Sorrow), condemned Nazism. Publication of this book ended Hudal’s influence among his fellow clerics and resulted in him being ostracized from the Vatican’s inner circle, including Eugenio Pacelli, cardinal secretary of state and soon-to-be Pope Pius XII. Suffering this rebuff, Hubal then isolated himself in his college.” (p. 158. Emphasis added). So Hudal was the exception that proved the rule.

INDIVIDUAL EXCEPTIONS ASIDE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DID NOT HELP NAZIS ESCAPE JUSTICE

The whole contrived issue of the Church allegedly protecting Nazi criminals is ironic, to begin with, because Jews very much protected Jewish Communist criminals from facing justice for their crimes. See:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/zydokomuna-no-justice-done-pluzanski/

Enter Alois Hudal again. Bartrop and Grimm comment, “With this, Hudal and several others created what because known as ratlines, by which Nazi war criminals could escape Europe with forged papers, visas, passports, and letters of recommendation, many of which were written by Hudal himself…In his defense, he [Hudal] claimed that he was acting out of Christian mercy for the men of the Nazi regime.” (p. 159).

Let’s put this in context. Were there not Catholic clergy that had ever called for “Christian mercy” and “compassion” for various other criminals? Remember how Pope John Paul II forgave his would-be assassin, Mehmet Agca?

In any case, Hudal’s acts had nothing to do with the Catholic Church as a whole, “…Hudal himself, in his memoir published posthumously, stated that Pius XII knew nothing of the ratlines. The argument acknowledges that Hudal aided Nazi war criminals to escape justice and concedes that fleeing Nazis may have crept into the Church’s programs to help refugees find a new start outside of Europe, but it unconditionally rejects the allegation that Pius XII or the Vatican supported or authorized, let alone financed, Hudal’s efforts.” (p. 159. Emphasis added).