HITLER'S PLOT TO KILL THE POPE

[kepha31]

As soon as Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was ousted from power on July 25, 1943, Adolf Hitler began hatching a plan to kidnap Pope Pius XII and plunder the Vatican. Clearly, the Fuehrer thought, the “Jew-loving” pope had encouraged King Victor Emanuel II and some rival fascist leaders to overthrow his Italian puppet.

The following day Hitler called for an urgent meeting of his military leaders. They must liberate Mussolini and return him to power, he cried. And “we must occupy Rome” and “destroy the Vatican’s power, capture the pope, and say that we are protecting him.” The pope might even have to be killed.

About six weeks later, on September 13, SS General Karl Wolff, the SS commander in Italy, received a phone call from his boss, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, orchestrator of the Holocaust. Himmler, Wolff told me, bellowed that the Fuehrer wanted to see him urgently.
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New evidence published today (June 6, 2009)by Avvenire now points to the role of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (the Third Reich’s main security office) in devising a plot to take out the Pope.

The newspaper cited the testimony of Niki Freytag Loringhoven, 72, the son of Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, who during World War II was a colonel in the High Command of the German Armed Forces.

According to the son, days after Hitler’s Italian ally, Benito Mussolini, had been arrested at the orders of King Victor Emmanuel III, Hitler ordered the Reichssicherheitshauptamt to devise a plot to punish the Italian people by kidnapping or murdering Pius XII and the king of Italy.

Hearing of the project, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German counterintelligence service, informed his Italian counterpart, General Cesare Amè, during a secret meeting in Venice from July 29-30, 1943.

Also present at the meeting were colonels Erwin von Lahousen and Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, who both worked in Section II of German counterintelligence, which dealt primarily with sabotage.

Canaris, Von Lahousen and Freytag von Loringhoven had all been part of the German resistance against the Nazis.

Amè, upon returning to Rome, spread news of the plans against the Pope and the king in order to block them, which proved successful. The plan was quickly dropped.

According to Avvenire, this testimony coincides with the deposition given by Von Lahousen during the Nuremberg war crimes trials on Feb. 1,1946 (Warnreise Testimony 1330-1430).
More Proof of Hitler’s Plan to Kill Pius XII – ZENIT – English

 

[Jenny_8675309]

So Hitler was bad? Who knew?

 

[kepha31]

So Hitler was bad? Who knew?

 

[Petros2015]

What was more interesting, I think the Pope was gunning for Hitler too.
I gave the book to a friend as a gift, read the first chapter, I think it's probably pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Church-Spies-Pope’s-Secret-Against/dp/0465022294

 

[Albion]

HITLER'S PLOT TO KILL THE POPE

Well, THAT would be ingratitude, wouldn't it, after all that this man had done to put Hitler into power in the first place!

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Well, THAT would be ingratitude, wouldn't it, after all that this man had done to put Hitler into power in the first place!

Not really entirely true. The Concordats of the Catholic Church essentially entailed the forcing of the Vatican's hand. The political position was untenable and hence the Centre Party and Von Papen, along with the Vatican, tried to maintain the Church's institutional rights. That Hitler did not keep up his side, immediately transgressing the terms, and the implosion of the opposition to the Nazis was an unforseen consequence. The fact that continued Church relations with the German government legitimised Nazi rule after the reichstag fire, was likewise unavoidable without Catholicism losing significant rights in central Europe. The Nazis were hardly nice to the Catholic Church, any Church. They persecuted clergy, closed religious press and schools, and dismissed overtly religious people from positions of power from the get go. Their long term plans from Rosenberg, was to convert Churches into a national German Church, worshipping the Aryan Volk, with Mein Kampf as their religious text.

 

[Albion]

I think you have to go back to prior to those events to get the full picture.

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

I think you have to go back to prior to those events to get the full picture.

Please enlighten me to what prior events you are referring, where the Pope helped Hitler's rise to power? I cannot think of any such event, myself.

 

[kepha31]

I think you have to go back to prior to those events to get the full picture.

There were no genocides prior to the Concordat the Vatican signed with Germany, as did the United States.

 

[kepha31]

Well, THAT would be ingratitude, wouldn't it, after all that this man had done to put Hitler into power in the first place!

I've seen a lot of idiotic posts but this one takes the cake.

Q: A Jehovah's Witness told me that Pope Pius XI signed document endorsing Nazi Germany and that he thus gave the Church's stamp of approval to Hitler and his group.

A: Pope Pius XI signed a concord with Germany to secure the rights of Christians in the country, because the Vatican recognized what a threat Hitler and his henchmen were to religious liberty. This was not an endorsement of the Nazi Party or its philosophy (it may be remembered that America also had treaties with Germany before the war broke out).

When Hitler went back on the deal and began abrogating the civil rights of Christians, the Vatican responded by issuing the only encyclical ever written in German (Mit Brennender Sorge or "With Burning Anxiety"), concerning the horrors of the National Socialist German state. This encyclical was smuggled into Germany (it would never have been allowed in, had the Nazis known it was coming) and read at all the parishes on the same day.

The Encyclopedia of Catholic History (by Matthew Bunson) notes: "the encyclical was a strong denunciation of Nazism, noting that the Nazis had broken several points of the concordat and were actively involved in anti-Catholic and anti-Christian programs, such as the removal of the OT [Old Testament] from schools and the promotion of the so-called German National Church. The encyclical was read from the pulpit of every German church on March 21, 1937" (p. 563).
The Nazareth Resource Library

 

[Albion]

I've seen a lot of idiotic posts but this one takes the cake.

If you say so, but there's no reason to attach it to a quote from me that did not refer to the material quoted here from some source you did not identify. Send your complaint to the Jehovah's Witnesses or to whoever else is involved (below).

Q: A Jehovah's Witness told me that Pope Pius XI signed document endorsing Nazi Germany and that he thus gave the Church's stamp of approval to Hitler and his group.

A: Pope Pius XI signed a concord with Germany to secure the rights of Christians in the country, because the Vatican recognized what a threat Hitler and his henchmen were to religious liberty. This was not an endorsement of the Nazi Party or its philosophy (it may be remembered that America also had treaties with Germany before the war broke out).

When Hitler went back on the deal and began abrogating the civil rights of Christians, the Vatican responded by issuing the only encyclical ever written in German (Mit Brennender Sorge or "With Burning Anxiety"), concerning the horrors of the National Socialist German state. This encyclical was smuggled into Germany (it would never have been allowed in, had the Nazis known it was coming) and read at all the parishes on the same day.

The Encyclopedia of Catholic History (by Matthew Bunson) notes: "the encyclical was a strong denunciation of Nazism, noting that the Nazis had broken several points of the concordat and were actively involved in anti-Catholic and anti-Christian programs, such as the removal of the OT [Old Testament] from schools and the promotion of the so-called German National Church. The encyclical was read from the pulpit of every German church on March 21, 1937" (p. 563).
The Nazareth Resource Library