@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ Hitler, like many autodidacts, believed a strange grab bag of ideas, most of them incoherent and none of them forming any kind of whole. Exactly what he thought about Jesus is unclear, though yes, he does seem to have seen him as some kind of Aryan "fighter" against "the ...
@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ ... Jews". He does not seem to have seen him as divine. And he certainly wasn't an atheist - he believed in a divine "Providence" or God. "The Church" did not have one response to him, because there was not one "Church". Many of the Protestant churches operated in the parts ...
@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ ... of Germany where Nazism was strong and largely acquiesced. Some Germans went along with the Nazis' "Positive Christianity" ruse, which was basically Protestantism with a Nazi twist. But the Protestant "Confessing Church " movement openly defied the Nazis and many of its ...
@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ ... leaders were persecuted, sent to concentration camps and killed. The Catholic Church was openly and vehemently anti-Nazi in the years before they came to power. Once in power, the Nazis manoeuvred the Papacy into accepting a Concordat that had been negotiated with the ...
@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ ... Weimar Republic, but never ratified. The Papacy didn't trust Hitler, but saw the Concordat as the best of bad options and wanted to prevent German Catholics from having to choose between their faith and their country. Official policy was to respect the Nazis as the ...
@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ ... legitimate legal authority while protesting its inhumane policies. This quickly led to the Nazis seeing the Catholic Church as a major source of opposition. And as the War began and the inhumanity of the regime became clearer, the policy of open diplomatic neutrality was ...
@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ ... supplemented by one of covert resistance to the Nazis. Pius XII acted as a back channel between the German Resistance and the Allies and assisted no less than three plots to have Hitler killed. Catholics were active in the Resistance movement in Germany and the Nazis were ...
@Elishabenabuya @perseus1977 @ReginaldODonog1 @__Helicon__ ... quite clear that the Catholic Church was its enemy.
