Thread by @thirdreichpast

@ArminiusAnton Lmfao at you christian.

Here's the official NSDAP report that shows how the international churches all collaborated and fought against Hitlers Third Reich.

It is literally a 157 page report on the operations of all the international christian churches against Germany.

@ArminiusAnton There is also mention in the final summary of a further report to be made on the operations of the christian churches within Third Reich against the National Socialist state.

It's stamped with the Official Ordensburg Sonthofen stamp...

And it was Authored by...

@ArminiusAnton Dr. Matthes Ziegler, Reich Office Director in the Reich Leadership of the NSDAP

(Head of the Reich Office in the office of the Führer's Commissioner for the Supervision of the Entire Intellectual and Ideological Training and Education of the NSDAP)

The final summary reads...

@ArminiusAnton The results of our investigation can be summarized as follows:

1. Pius XI and his Secretary of State, Pacelli (later Pius XII), consistently opposed racial and ethnic ideologies, including National Socialism.

@ArminiusAnton This was evident in several statements, notably the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (March 14, 1937). Pius XII maintained this stance during the war, especially in his encyclical Summi Pontificatus (October 25, 1939), though with careful wording.

@ArminiusAnton Pius XII also pursued two main goals through peace propaganda:

Preventing or limiting German dominance in Europe to protect Catholic interests.

Securing a role for the Papacy in peace negotiations to enhance Church power.

@ArminiusAnton 2. Catholic churches in enemy nations stirred anti-German sentiment both before and during the war.

Without Vatican interference, they equated the Allied cause with Christianity and called for a holy war against Nazi Germany.

@ArminiusAnton Their message:
"Whoever fights against the Reich, fights for civilization, and Christ."

@ArminiusAnton 3. The Anglican High Church and Free Churches in England openly served English political goals. Despite their calls for Christian brotherhood, they were clearly tools of British interests, using churches worldwide for political ends.

@ArminiusAnton 4. Churches in the Reich failed to counter global religious propaganda against National Socialist Germany before the war. In many cases, they unintentionally or knowingly contributed to it.

@ArminiusAnton At war’s outbreak, church support for the Reich was scattered, cautious, and far from unified. Catholic leaders, in particular, tried to use the situation to push their own agendas.

@ArminiusAnton The Catholic episcopate of Greater Germany, whose shifting loyalties worried even the Vatican, reportedly could not agree to send a message of victory to the German people in August 1940.

@ArminiusAnton 5. Given these realities, it was unrealistic for the German people to expect strong church support during the war, especially considering their actions in the previous war and recent years.

@ArminiusAnton Despite the sacrifices made—especially by Protestant clergy—the National Socialist Reich has fought and will win this decisive struggle without church support.

@ArminiusAnton The churches, both in Germany and abroad, should not claim they were misused by the regime. But they also should not expect thanks from the German people or leadership after the war.

Matthes Ziegler

@ArminiusAnton What do the world churches say about this war?: Testimonies and Judgments.
Official NSDAP manuscript 1941

archive.org/details/wassag…

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