What was the role of the Vatican during the time the
six million Jews were alleged to have been exterminated?
52. What was the role of the Vatican during the time the six
million Jews were alleged to have been exterminated?
The IHR says:
If there had been an extermination plan, the Vatican would most certainly
have been in a position to know. But since there was none, the Vatican had
no reason to speak out against it.
Nizkor replies:
Lies. The Nazis hated the Catholic church, and executed many clergymen
in Poland and other places. The church had no power or influence over the
Nazis. Reich propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary on
March 26, 1942 (see Lochner, The Goebbels Diaries, 1948, p. 146):
It's a dirty, low thing to do for the Catholic Church to continue its
subversive activity in every way possible and now even to extend its
propaganda to Protestant children evacuated from the regions threatened
by air raids. Next to the Jews these politico-divines are about the most
loathsome riffraff that we are still sheltering in the Reich. The time
will come after the war for an over-all solution of this problem.
Or, look at the following:
Letter to Reich Minister of Justice
... Buses arrive in Hadamar several times a week with a large number
of these victims. School children in the neighborhood know these
vehicles and say: "Here comes the murder wagon." After the
arrival of such vehicles the citizens of Hadamar then see the smoke
coming from the chimney and are upset by constant thoughts about the
poor victims especially when, depending on the direction of the wind,
they have to put up with the revolting smell. The consequence of the
principles being practiced here is that children, when quarreling with
one another make remarks like: "You are thick, you'll be put in the
oven in Hadamar." People who do not want to get married or who do
not get the opportunity say: "Get married? No fear. Put children
into the world who then end up going through the stack." Old people
are saying "on no account will I go into a state hospital! After
the feeble-minded, the old will be next in line as useless mouths to
feed."
The last paragraph refers to the systematic annihilation of tens of
thousands of insane and retarded people by the Nazis, in the so-called
"euthanasia"
or "mercy killing" program.
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