Posted by Phil Jayhan, March 19th, 2007
Original link: http://nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
- Nazi photos: Nazi State Religion of Roman Catholicism – Adolf Hitler, Papabilly’s Favorite Son., Klara Hitler, Adolf’s Mother, good ‘Roman’ Catholic
- compiled by Jim Walker – created: 20 May 1998 additions: 13 May 2006
- The following photos provide a pictorial glimpse of Hitler, how his Nazis mixed religion with government, and the support for Hitler by the Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany. In, no way, does this gallery of photos intend to support Nazism or anti-Semitism, but instead, intends to warn against them.
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Hitler With Whip (acting like ‘Jesus’)Hitler’s close friend, Dietrich Eckart, told of overhearing Hitler showing off to a lady by denouncing Berlin in extravagant terms: “. . . the luxury, the perversion, the iniquity, the wanton display and the Jewish materialism disgusted me so thoroughly that I was almost beside myself. I nearly imagined myself to be Jesus Christ when he came to his Father’s Temple and found the money changers.” Eckart described Hitler as “brandishing his whip and exclaimed that it was his mission to descend upon the capital like a Christ and scourge the corrupt.”
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Hitler wth Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin, 1935
- On April 20, 1939, Archbishop Orsenigo celebrated Hitler’s birthday. The celebrations, initiated by Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) became a tradition. Each April 20, Cardinal Bertram of Berlin was to send “warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany” and added with “fervent prayers which the Catholics of Germany are sending to heaven on their altars.”
(Source: Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, by John Cornwell) (see also USHMM)
The Führer in Franken
Adolf Hitler (center) at the monument for the war dead in the small town of Franken. According to Ray Cowdery, Hitler rarely missed an opportunity to visit war memorials, even when a photographer was not present.
(Source: Hitler: The Hoffmann Photographs, Vol. 1, Ray Cowdery, Ed., 1990)
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Hitler greets Müller the “Bishop of the Reich” and Abbot Schachleitner
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Hitler greets a Catholic Cardinal (Source: USHMM)
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Finish this Photographic Indictment on the ‘Holy Roman See’ – Part II Below;
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Posted by Phil Jayhan, March 19th, 2007
Original link: http://nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
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Hitler leaving Church
Hitler leaves the Marine Church in Wilhelmshaven. (Source: The German Propaganda Archive )
Hitler at Nazi party rally
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Note the “Church of our Lady” in the background as if it represented the
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foundation of the party. Photo taken in Nuremberg, Germany (circa 1928).
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(Source: 20th Century History)
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Church & State
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Hitler in front of “Church of our Lady” in Nuremberg,
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Sept. 1934. Photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.
(Source: USHMM)
Hitler signing his autograph for a Catholic fan
(Source: Hitler in Seinen Bergen, Heinrich Hoffmann, Berlin, den 24.9.35)
Hitler praying
The caption reads: “Der ergreifende Abschlub der Kundgebung in Wien: Wir treten zum Beten…”
[The touching and emotional end of the rally in Vienna: Let us pray...]
(Source: Hitler: The Hoffmann Photographs, Vol. 1, Ray R. Cowdery, Ed., 1990)
Joseph Ratzinger 1940
Young Joseph Ratzinger at 13 years (c. 1940) Image Credit: KNA / AP – Now Pope Benedict – 2007
April 19th, 2005
The Pope with the Most
Posted by scim in politics, world, history
A new pope will have to end up being one of the biggest worldwide stories this year, so I have to post something. Ratzinger was a surprising pick given the the fact that he was a favorite and the pre-election buzz of popes of the past. He has the reputation for being one of the most hardline of the cardinals, so don’t expect the Vatican to budge too much on birth control, the role of women, or allowing priests to marry. After all, the government of Vatican City is more a Dictatorship than a Democracy.
Perhaps sensing his image and how he needs to soften it, he chose the name Benedict XVI, ostensibly to carry on the anti-relativistic, yet moderate policies of XV. The promise of relativism is assured from his quote in the AP article on his election:
“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism,” he said, speaking in Italian. “Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and ’swept along by every wind of teaching,’ looks like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.
Something that’s bound to be a controversy in the coming weeks was Ratzinger’s time in service to the Nazis, once as a Hitler Youth and once as a anti-aircraft gunner helper during WWII. Both times were apparently against his will, but it really doesn’t help the ongoing image of the Vatican colluding with the Nazis.
NEW: The London Times has an article that goes a little more in depth on the Ratzinger-Nazi connection. It does add more evidence to his argument that all his service was involuntary, but it also points out that he did not openly decry the Nazis either. From the article:
Some locals in Traunstein, like Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismiss such suggestions. “It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,” she said. “The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.”
Now I have no idea what it would be like to be in his shoes then, but I would tend to give him the benefit of the doubt for this. Back then, you could be killed for openly opposing the Nazis, so not resisting is not necessarily acquiescence. So, to clarify my original point: While I think Ratzinger himself is not guilty of being a Nazi, his connection to them will cause a stir given the past Vatican image in relation to the Nazis.
23 December 2005
U.S. judge dismisses Pope from sexual abuse case
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed Pope Benedict from a civil lawsuit lodged against him and other Roman Catholic church officials that accused them of covering up sexual abuse of a minor by a seminary student.
In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal agreed with a motion filed by the Vatican that Pope Benedict enjoyed “head-of-state immunity” in the case.
Three unnamed plaintiffs in the case have said church officials ignored their pleas to investigate Juan Carlos Patino-Arango, who they accused of sexual abuse, and that the clergy helped him leave the country.
The church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly called the Holy Office of the Vatican, headed by Pope Benedict when he was a cardinal, played a central role in the conspiracy to conceal the abuse that occurred in 1995 and 1996, the plaintiffs said.
(Notice how Reuters has Conveniently Pulled the Plug on this Story!) At least we have 1/2 of it!
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Hitler’s mother’s grave Klara Hitler was a pious Catholic mother who raised Hitler according to her beliefs.Hitler felt grief-stricken over his mother’s death. She was buried alongside her husband in Linz, Austria. German soldiers here pay their respects to the grave in 1938.Note the Christian cross on her monument.(Source: The Importance of Adolf Hitler, by Eleanor H. Ayer, Lucent Books, 1996, p. 25)To see what the gravesite looks like today, click here. |
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The Göring Wedding Only Christians perform Christian weddings, and the Nazis were no exception.Hermann Göring married Emmy Sonnemann, a famous Opera star.Adolf Hitler stands in the front row as “Best Man” during the ceremony in the Cathedral by Reichbishop Müller.(Source: ThirdReich.ca) |
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The Concordat between the Vatican and the NazisCardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII) signs the Concordat between Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 1933. Nazi Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen sits at the left, Pacelli in the middle, and the Rudolf Buttmann sits at the right.The Concordat effectively legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world. |
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Hitler Oath:I swear by God, this holy oath, to the Führer of the German Reich and people. Adolf Hitler…<Watch movie> (Source: Hitler: Tyrant of Terror, shown on the History Channel) |
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Nazi Graves: One must not forget that Germany represented the most Christianized country in the world in the 1930s and 40s. Nazi Christian soldiers died as Protestants and Catholics and their grave markers testified to their religion. 
- (Source: Photoarchive of the Thrid Reich: http://stolz.by.ru/)
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- ST Front
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- Chaplain with a machine gun unit
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- Most wars are justified on religious grounds.
- Of course if a soldier felt uneasy about slaughtering others, they could always turn to a chaplain who would then patiently explain to them that killing is allowed by God and about the righteous morality of war. He might then give a few Biblical examples of God ordained killings. And then he might tell them that Jesus will forgive them and send them to Heaven if they should happen to die.
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| Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler, future Pope Benedict in the Center brown suit Nazi |
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A Cardinal marches with the NazisCardinal Michael Faulhaber marches between rows of SA men at a Nazi rally in Munich.
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Cardinal Bertram in the funeral procession for Bishop Bares, Berlin, 7 March 1935 As a chairman of the German bishop conference the Breslauer Cardinal Bertram plays a crucial role in shaping the attitude of the German bishops in relation to the National Socialist state.(Photo source: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) |
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Welcome Celebration for Bishop Konrad Graf von Preysing in the Sportpalast, Berlin, 8 Sept. 1935Note the Catholic Chi-Rho Cross to the right of the Nazi flag. Chi and Rho are the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. The Chi Rho Cross, or warrior’s cross, originated from the monogram of Roman Emperor Constantine. How fitting it appears next to a swastika.Following the death of Berlin’s Bishop Bares, Pope Pius XI unexpectedly selects Konrad Graf von Preysing, a little-known Eichstätt bishop, as bishop of Berlin. Berlin, the region for which he is responsible, now also includes the center of the National Socialist power structure and so requires a high degree of political skill from its ecclesiastical leader.(Photo source: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) |
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Priests giving the Hitler salute: Priests giving the Hitler salute at a Catholic youth rally in the Berlin-Neukölln stadium in August 1933.(Source: A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen) |
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Ludwig Müller, a Nazi sympathizer, and a candidate of Hitler, was elected to the position of Reich Bishop in 1933 as Hitler attempted to unite regional Protestant churches under Nazi control. Hitler did not practice separation of Church & State.Although Hitler had problems with the Catholic Church and eventually wanted to replace Catholicism with his brand of Christianity, the very fact that Hitler wanted a united German Church proves that he supported Christianity.Berlin, Germany, November 17, 1933.(Source: USHMM) |
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This autographed portrait of Müller shows him wearing the NSDAP-Hoheitsabzeichen (Nazi Eagle party badge) and Feldschnalle (ribbons).(Click image for an enlarged view)(Source: sent by email from Gregers Forssling) |
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Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller, Berlin, 1934 (Photo source: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) |
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A radical wing of German Lutheranism and the main Protestant branch supporting Nazi ideology, the German Christian Movement reconciled Christian doctrine with German nationalism and antisemitism. (Source: Museum of Tolerance) |
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Investiture of Reich Church Bishop, 1933: Women in traditional dresses joined Nazis at the investiture of Ludwig Müller as Reich Church Bishop. Müller praised the concept of “one mighty, all-embracing German people’s church.”(Source: Museum of Tolerance) |
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Deutsche Christen (German Christians) - The Deutsche Christen (DC) became the voice of Nazi ideology within the Evangelical Church (the Religious Right of their day) and approved by Hitler. They proposed a church “Aryan paragraph” to prevent “non-Aryans” from becoming ministers or religious teachers. Most church leaders solidly supported the “Judenmission.” Only a very few number of Christians opposed Nazism such as the “Confessing Christians” (a Church movement not recognized by the Protestant orthodoxy) headed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The support of Nazism by the majority of German Christians and German Christian leaders shows the danger of mixing religion with government.
- The photo on the left shows Christian worshippers of Christ and Nazism on the march in front of the Berlin Cathedral. SS guards stand at attention. The head of the march shows members in party and SA uniforms while pastors follow in the rear.
- Note the flags with the Christian cross with the swastika in the middle (also described as the Double Cross).
- To see a movie trailer about the Deutsche Christen, from the documentary film, “Theologians Under Hitler,” click here.
(Photo sources: unknown)
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Deutsche Christen (German Christians) SA storm troopers with placards of the “German Christians,” Berlin, July 1933.On July 14, 1933, Hitler’s government approves a new charter for the Protestant church. With massive intervention by the NSDAP, the church elections scheduled only a short time later result in a resounding victory for the “German Christians.” Hitler himself appeals to all Protestant Christians in a radio speech on the eve of the election to vote for the “German Christians.” With its slogan “church must remain church,”(Source: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) |
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Presidium of the “German Christians,” Berlin, November 13, 1933: The “German Christians” desired to achieve absolute organizational and ideological conformity between the Protestant church and the National Socialist state. Following their triumphant success in the Protestant church elections in July 1933 and the election of Ludwig Müller to the office of Reich bishop, they feel they have reached the zenith of their power over church policy in the autumn of 1933.(Source: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) |
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National Bishop Friedrich Coch giving a Hitler greeting in Dresden, 10 December 1933: Dresden pastor Friedrich Coch is one of the leading men of the “German Christians” in Saxony. The NSDAP’s Gau consultant for church matters since 1932, he is elected to the office of state bishop by the “Brown Synod” in August 1933.(Source: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) |
For photos of Nazi artifacts and mementoes, click here. USHMM: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Pictures of Hitler
Close-ups
- Portrait of Adolf Hitler
- Hitler looks out the window of a train
- Hitler poses with a group of SS members
- Hitler begins a speech
- Hitler salutes the crowd while walking
- Adolf Hitler saluting with Hess and Himmler Behind Him
The Nazi Salute
- Hitler salutes the crowd from his open car
- Hitler salutes the ranks of German youth from his car
- Hitler salutes his followers at a Nazi Party rally
- Standing in an open car, Adolf Hitler salutes
- Hitler and Heinrich Himmler review SS troops
- Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg
- An athlete saluting Hitler
World War I
During Weimar Republic
- Hitler poses holding the “blood flag” from the Beer Hall Putsch
- Hitler posing With Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher
As the New German Chancellor
- Hitler votes at a Berlin polling station
- Hitler listens to a radio broadcast of the elections
- Hitler poses with members of his new government
- Hitler poses with members of his first cabinet in the Chancellery
- Hitler at the opening of the Nazi Party museum
- Members of the German leadership attend a ceremony
- Hitler wields a shovel at a groundbreaking ceremony
Before World War II
- Hitler speaks to the widow of a Nazi party member
- Hitler greets an autobahn worker
- Hitler congratulates Karl-Siegmund Lizmann on his birthday
- An SS guard shields Adolf Hitler from enthusiastic supporters
- Hitler and Robert Ley review a unit of DAF
- Hitler stands on a podium before crowd of youth (picture 1)
- Hitler stands on a podium before crowd of youth (picture 2)
- Hitler rides in a motorcade through the Brandenburg Gate
- Hitler receives an ovation from the Reichstag for the Anschluss
- Hitler Standing in Front of 47,000 People
- Hitler greets members of an unidentified group
During World War II
- Hitler smiles as he greets a soldier
- Adolf Hitler inspecting bomb damage in a German city
- Hitler standing in front of the Eiffel Tower
Nazi Rallies and Parades
- Hitler leads an SA unit in a Nazi Party parade in Weimar
- Hitler addresses a rally
- Walking to his car after addressing an SA rally
- Adolf Hitler surrounded by members of the BDM in the bleachers
Hitler and Other Nazi Officials
- Line of top Nazi officials
- Hitler poses with members of the High Command during Wehrmacht Day celebrations
- Hitler and Albert Speer Stand by the House of German Art
- Hitler and Joseph Goebbels with local Nazi officials
- Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess standing together
- Hitler and Heinrich Himmler review SS troops
- Hitler poses with members of his new government
Hitler and Foreign Dignitaries
- Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler standing together
- Hitler and Benito Mussolini in an automobile
- Adolf Hitler walks with Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler greets Neville Chamberlain
- Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Hitler
- Hitler meets with the Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck
- Romanian dictator, Marshal Ion Antonescu, with Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler greets King Boris of Bulgaria
- Adolf Hitler greets Ante Pavelic
Meeting Roman Catholic Dignitaries
- Hitler converses with the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo
- Hitler greets an unidentified Roman Catholic cardinal
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