What role did the church play during WWII?

Answer 1

Many Catholic Priests and Nuns helped to save many lives at great risk to their own by providing shelter and underground networks to save not only the Jews, but many other persecuted people during that time. Could the Pope have spoken out more by condemning Hitler? Maybe he could have but if he did would the Nazis have left the Vatican alone during the occupation of Rome? What about the Catholics in the occupied territories would he have turned on them quicker because no doubt once the Jews and any other undesirables were done away with he would have turned on them. The Pope was in a position that didn't matter which way he turned he was dammed. The church as a whole did an awful lot during the War. I am a Protestant and not exactly a great fan of the Catholic church but recognise that at that time much of what the Catholic church did was in secret. To say it did nothing is wrong, it did what it could and many individuals did more.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The Pope was threaten with total annihilation if he persisted in speaking out against Hitler and Mussolini. In order to prevent greater bloodshed the Pope develop an underground railroad for Jews, Christians, and Catholics in jeopardy of dying to escape.

Through these monasteries, Catholic schools, and Catholic Churches throughout Germany, Italy, and the conquered territory many many were saved and rescued.

The Church saved millions upon millions of lives. Living witnesses to their heroics still exists today and speak publicly how the Catholic churched saved their lives in secret. Maximillian Kolby was one priest who sacrificed his life so that a Jewish father of five children may live. That Jewish father still speaks publicly of his gratitude to the underground church for saving his life.

Answer 4

Roman Catholics died in the concentration camps along with Jews and other Christians. As human-beings they suffered like everyone else.

I do know that one RC priest willingly gave up his life to replace a condemned prisoner in a concentration camp.

Answer 5

Wrong big time. Hitler was an occultist. Now if you are saying that some of the German churches support the occult, the orgies of the Nazis and the seans, tarot reading and the psychics, well that's hard to explain. Hitler not only reinvented the Ten commandments to create twelve of his own(include one that demanded respect to him and designed to elevate himself to god status eventually), he also replaced the christian holidays with the old German pagan rune / nature holidays. Many Christians stood up to him but many were helpless and many Germans were swept away by his lies, because he aimed to replace the church in one generation. He hated Jesus Christ because he was after all, a Jew!!! and he considered Germans as the original occult Aryans superior to Jews!
CONSIDER THIS FACT: Goebbels, Hauer and Hermann Mandel(developer of Nazi THEOLOGY) and other Nazi heavyweights carried the Hindu Bhagvad Gita not the Bible or any other theology book in their cases! They were fascinated with the occult. Their rumination on this book led to many pseudo-scientific theories. Pro-Nazi ideologues like Jakob Hauer saw Christianity as "a foreign faith and psychology imposed on Germany." They praised "Aryan religion" that did not place good and evil in opposition and attacked "the absolutism of Christianity."

Answer 6

Individuals inspired by what they could do to help the vctims played their role but I think the one religion that I admire is the stace of the Quakers whereas the Vatican should be ashamed of its cowardice

Answer 7

I guess the church supported Hitler during the WWII. The pope was politically on the side of Musulini and Hitler

Answer 8

A lot of the tall spires made good targets for the hun

Answer 9

churches on both sides of the conflict encouraged the war, which directly violates the bibles command of not killing, not being violent, and being no part of the world.
the churches of christendom showed themselves to be false.
it is a little known fact that the nazi regime also tried to exterminate Jehovah's witnesses. there were very few about at the time, but they stuck together and nearly all survived the concentration camps. not only that, their number actually increased during their captivity. it was during this time that many of the kingdom songs, still sung by the witnesses, were written.
in trying to destroy God's true worshippers hitler actually advanced their numbers and faith in Jehovah

Answer 10

The church played the leading role in WWII.

"The anti-Semitism of the new movement (Christian Social movement) was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge." [Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", Vol. 1, Chapter 3]

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