What Church Backed Up Hitler?

Question

http://www.gospelgrace.com/nazis/hitler_cardinal.jpg

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Hitler.files/Hitler%20church.jpg

http://forum.axishistory.com/files/bishops-salute-hitler.jpeg

I am not Judging any church, just kinda make you wonder is all

Answer 1

Roman Catholic church, silly!

Answer 2

No church officially backed Hitler. The main Christian churches of Germany, Catholic and Lutheran, did try to work with the Nazi goverment. But that was the democratically elected government of Germany at the time. When the policies of Hitler became more clear, the churches changed.
Remember that even the government and people of the United States did not know or believe what was happening to the Jews until it was too late.

Answer 3

I have a story to tell you and it is true.

My mother walked in to one of her classrooms at Melrose Academy which was a perocial school run by the Order of the Grey Nuns, outside of Philadelphia, PA back in the late 1930's to find an Austrian nun that had immigrated to the U.S. crying.

When she came up on the nun and asked her what was wrong she noticed the nun was burning what looked to be some pictures.

The nun showed her one the pictures which was an old 1st Communion picture and pointed to a little girl in the picture and told my mother it was her.

Then she pointed at the little boy standing next to her and told my mother that was Adolph Hitler.

She was so ashamed of Hitler and that he was a fellow countryman and Catholic that she destroyed a part of her own history rather than have any association with him.

No, the Roman Catholic Church did not support Hitler.

That's a myth.

The Roman Catholic Church did pay lip service to Hitler and Moussilini to save the lives of the priests and nuns she was responsible for the lives and care of; and while she couldn't officially speak out against fasism and the atrocities that were occuring due to the danger to everyone, we were more than happy to unofficially and quietly sneak as many Jews, Gypsys (or Romani) and others persecuted out of the path of harm as we could.

Really think about this one.

If someone were threatening your family with imminent death, you too, would pay the perpitrators whatever lip service they required.....while sneaking your family out the back door now, wouldn't you?

Answer 4

I believe Hitler was against the philosophy of "organized religion". I have heard that the Catholic church never condemned Hitler, but I never heard they actually supported him in any formal way. Hitler & the Nazi party's political & social agenda had nothing to do with religion. With the Jews & the Holocaust, their destruction was for ethnic or racial reasons/issues (among other issues), not religious issues or difference in religious belief.

Answer 5

Jesus served as Hitler's role model. Hitler was raised Christian and used Christianity for his own purposes to manipulate the Germans,

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice....And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited. "
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 12 April 1922

"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of humankind has preserved-- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"

--John Adams

Answer 6

Christians. You can try to bash Catholics all you want, but the programs were widely popular in the west among all Christians until after the war when the EXTENT of them was discovered.

It seems no-one objected to the concept until they saw the bodies that the concept killed.

Answer 7

The Roman Catholic church did!

Answer 8

"backed up" as in... say... hiding Jews so Nazis couldn't get at them? That's what a young seminarian named Karol Wojtyla did in Poland.

You might have heard of him. He had another name.

John Paul II.

Answer 9

The Roman Catholic did.

Answer 10

Nice pics.