before WWII
"We
demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as
they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and
moral sense of the German race. The Party, as such, stands for positive
Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular
confession...."
Article 24th of Hitler's German Workers' Party in the 1920s*click here
Hitler with Archbishop Cesare
Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin On April 20, 1939, 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 with "fervent prayers which the Catholics of
Germany are sending to heaven on their altars."
"Whoever
exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State,
or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human
community--however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly
things--whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes
them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world
planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from
the concept of faith which that faith upholds."
Pius
XI, (14 March, 1937)*click
here
"Kinder, Kirche, Kueche"
(Children, Church, Kitchen)
Nazi
Slogan
Mementoes
of German soldiers before the Christian cross and Hitler's Brown Army attending
church service
The first photo: Die Jugend Des Fuhrers Adolf Hitler: Bildbuch uber
die grossdeutsche Jugend, 1942
(The youth of the Fuhrers Adolf Hilter: Picture book for German youth.)
The second photo: Das Braune Heer: mit einem geleitwort von Adolf Hitler
(The Brown Army: with a foreword by Adolf Hitler)
"Gott
mit uns"
(God with
us)
