<HOLOCAUST AND THE [[Satanist]] CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES.
The Catholic [[Fantasy]] Church. [[never
criticized anti-Semitism - a rumour of Pius XI having
said that "Christians" would be Semites]]
In response to Hitler's anti-Semitic policies,
[[Satanist Pope]] *Pius XI, like the German [[Fantasy]]
episcopate, seems to have limited his concern to
Catholic non-Aryans. [...] (col. 910)
anxiety") of March 1937 rejected the myths of "race" and
"blood" as contrary to revealed [[Fantasy]] Christian
truth, but neither mentioned nor criticized
anti-Semitism per se. Nor was anti-Semitism mentioned in
the statement of the Roman Congregation of Seminaries
and Universities (issued on April 13, 1938) attacking
eight theses taken from the Nazi doctrine as erroneous
[[wrong]]. On Sept. 7, 1938, during a reception for
[[Fantasy]] Catholic pilgrims
from Belgium, [[Satanist]] Pius XI is said to have
condemned the participation of [[Fantasy]] Catholics in anti-Semitic movements and to
have added that [[Fantasy]] Christians,
the spiritual descendants of the [[Fantasy]] patriarch Abraham, were "spiritually
[[Fantasy]] Semites". This
statement, however, was omitted by all the Italian
papers, including L'Osservatore
Romano, from their accounts of the [[Satanist]]
pope's address.
[[The concordat of the [[Satanist]] Vatican with
[Rothschild stepchild] Hitler's regime from 1933 is
mentioned later only in one single sentence in this
article]].
The elevation of [[Satanist]] Cardinal Pacelli to the
papacy as [[Satanist]] *Pius XII in the spring of 1939
brought to the throne of [[Fantasy]] St. Peter a Germanophile who, in contrast
to his predecessor, was unemotional, dispassionate, and
a master of the language of diplomatic ambiguity.
[1942: emotionless statements about the
Holocaust from the Satanist pope]
The [[Satanist]] Vatican received detailed information
about the murder of Jews in the concentration camps from
1942 on, [[and surely knew about the mass shootings in
NS occupied eastern Europe]], but [[Satanist]] Pius XII
restricted all his public utterances to carefully
phrased expressions of sympathy for the victims of
injustice and to calls for a more humane conduct of
hostilities.
In his [[Satanist]] Christmas message of 1942, the
[[Satanist]] pope spoke of his concern for the hundreds
of thousands who, without personal guilt and merely on
account of their nationality or descent, were doomed to
death. Again, addressing the [[Fantasy]] College of [[Satanist]] Cardinals in June
1943, the [[Satanist]] pontiff mentioned his twofold
duty to be impartial and to point out moral errors. He
had given special attention, he recalled, to the plight
of those who were still being harassed because of their
nationality or descent and who, without personal guilt,
were subjected to measures that spelled destruction.
[1943: Jews rounded up in Rome - 50 kg of gold
within 36 hours - the Satanist pope remains silent -
deportations and hiding]
The [[Satanist]] pope's policy of neutrality encountered
its crucial test when the Nazis began rounding up the
8,000 Jews of Rome in the autumn of 1943. Prior to the
arrests, the [Rothschild's stepchild Hitler] Nazis told
the [[Fantasy]] Jewish
community that unless it raised 50 kilograms of gold
within 36 hours, 300 hostages would be taken. When it
seemed that the Jews themselves could raise only part of
this ransom, a representative of the community asked for
and received an offer of a loan from the [[Satanist]]
Vatican treasury. The [[Satanist]] pope approved of this
offer of help, which, as it later transpired, did not
have to be invoked.
During the [Rothschild's stepchild Hitler] German
authorities hunt for the Jews of Rome, [[Satanist]] Pius
XII, contrary to [Rothschild's stepchild Hitler] German
fears, remained silent. On Oct. 18, 1943, over 1,000
Roman Jews - more than two-thirds of them women and
children - were transported to the death camp *Auschwitz
[[and then probably to farms, or to the tunnel systems
or to Stalin's Russia]]. About 7,000 Roman Jews were
able to elude their hunters by going into hiding.
More than 4,000, with the knowledge and approval of the
[[Satanist]] pope, found refuge in the numerous [Fantasy
Church] monasteries and houses of [Fantasy Church] religious
orders in Rome, and a few dozen were sheltered in the
[[Satanist]] Vatican itself. The rest were hidden by
their Italian neighbors, among whom the anti-Jewish
policy of the [Rothschild's stepchild Hitler] Fascists
had never been popular.
[Criticism against the mute Satanist pope
1941-1945]
[[Satanist]] Pius'
failure to publicly protest against [Rothschild's
stepchild Hitler] Nazi atrocities, especially against
the murder of the Jews, drew criticism. In July 1942,
Harold H. Tittmann, the assistant to [Zionist]
Roosevelt's personal representative at the [[Satanist]]
Holy See, Myron C. Taylor, pointed out to the
[[Satanist]] Vatican that its silence was endangering
its moral prestige. In January 1943, Wladislaw
Raczkiewicz, president of the Polish government in exile
[in London], appealed to the [[Satanist]] pope to issue
an unequivocal denunciation of [Rothschild's stepchild
Hitler] Nazi violence [[and of their collaborators]] in
order to strengthen the willingness of the Poles to
resist the Germans and help the Jews.
Bishop Preysing of Berlin, a man of courage and
compassion, urged the [[Satanist]] Pope on at least two
occasions to issue a public appeal on behalf of the [[Fantasy]] Jews.
A similar request with regard to the Hungarian Catholics
was (col. 9119
directed to [the Satanist] Pope Pius in September 1944
by Isaac *Herzog, the chief rabbi of [Satanist Zionist]
Palestine.
[Criticism against the mute Satanist pope after
1945: no excommunication of Rothschild's stepchild
Hitler and Goebbels - an appeal could have had a great
flight and helping effect]
After the end of World War II, [[Satanist]] Pius XII was
again criticized for his silence. It has been argued -
among others, by the German playwright Rolf *Hochhuth -
that the pope could have saved numerous lives, if indeed
he could not have halted the machinery of destruction
altogether, had he chosen to take a public stand and
confront the Germans with the threat of an interdict or
with the excommunication of [Rothschild's stepchild]
Hitler, Goebbels, and other leading Nazis belonging to
the [[Fantasy]]
Catholic faith.
As an example of the effectiveness of public protest, it
is possible to cite the resolute reaction of the German
[[Fantasy]] episcopate
to the euthanasia program. In Slovakia, Hungary, and
Romania, the forceful intervention of [[Satanist]] papal
nuncios, who threatened the pro-Nazi governments with
public condemnation by the [[Satanist]] pope, was also
able, albeit [[though]] temporarily, to halt the
deportations. At the very least, it has been suggested,
a public denunciation of the mass murders by
[[Satanist]] Pius XII broadcast widely over the
[[Satanist]] Vatican radio, would have revealed to Jews
and Christians alike what deportation to the east
actually meant. Many of the deportees might thus have
been warned and given an impetus to escape, many more [[Fantasy]]
Christians might have helped and
sheltered Jews, and many more lives might have been
saved.
No way of proving or disproving these arguments exist,
of course. Whether a [[Satanist]] papal decree of
excommunication against [[Rothschild's stepchild]]
Hitler would have dissuaded Hitler from carrying out his
plan do destroy the [[Fantasy]] Jews
is doubtful, and revocation of the Concordat by the
[[Satanist]] Holy See would have bothered [[Rothschild's
stepchild]] Hitler still less. However, a flaming
protest against the massacre of the [[Fantasy]]
Jews, coupled with an imposition of the
interdict upon all of Germany, or the excommunication of
all [[Fantasy]] Catholics in
any way involved with the apparatus of the "Final
Solution" [[e.g. mass shootings and tunnel systems]]
would have been a more formidable and effective weapon.
[German Fantasy Catholics should not leave the
Fantasy Church - Communism should not come forward]
This was precisely the kind of action that the
[[Satanist]] pope would not take, however, without
risking the allegiance of the German [[Fantasy]]
Catholics. Given the indifference of the
German population to the fate of the [[Fantasy]]
Jews and the highly ambivalent attitude
of the German [[Fantasy]] Church
toward [Rothschild's stepchild Hitler]] Nazi
anti-Semitism, a forceful stand by the [[Satanist]] pope
on the [[Fantasy]] Jewish
question might well have led to a large-scale desertion
from the [[Fantasy]] Church.
The [[Satanist]] pope had other, perhaps still stronger,
reasons for remaining silent. In a world war that pitted
[[Fantasy]] Catholics
against [[Fantasy]] Catholics,
the [[Satanist]] Holy See, as Mr. Tittmann was told by
highly placed officials of the [[Satanist]] Curia, did
not want to jeopardize [[to endanger]] its neutrality by
condemning German atrocities [[and of SS members of
other states]], and the [[Satanist]] pope was unwilling
to risk later charges of having been partial and
contributing to a German defeat.
Moreover, the [[Satanist]] Vatican did not with to
undermine Germany's struggle against [[Communist
Rothschild]] Russia. Late in the summer of 1943, the
papal secretary of state declared that the fate of
Europe was dependent upon a German victory on the
Eastern front. The [[Satanist]] Apostolic delegation in
Washington warned the [[Tavistock Rothschild]] American
Department of State in a note dated August 20, 1943,
that [[Rothschild's]] Communism was making steady
headway in Italy and Germany, and Europe was in grave
peril of finding itself overrun by [[Rothschild's]]
Communism immediately upon the cessation of hostilities.
Father Robert Leiber, one of [[Satanist]] Pius XII's
secretaries, later recalled (in Stimmen der Zeit
[["Voices of the Time"]], March 1961) that the
[[Satanist]] Pope had always looked upon Russian
[[Rothschild's]] Bolshevism as more dangerous than
German [[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]] National
Socialism. Hitler [[Rothschild's stepchild]], therefore,
had to be treated with some forbearance [[patience]].
[Papal nuncios are actively helping the [[Fantasy]] Jews]
The reluctance of [[Satanist]] Pius XII to be drawn into
a public protest against the "Final Solution" stands in
contrast to the often energetic rescue activities of
several of the papal nuncios in Slovakia, Hungary,
Rumania [[Romania]], and Turkey. Monsignor Roncalli, the
nuncio in Istanbul, who later became (col. 912)
[[Satanist]] Pope *John XXIII, in particular helped save
many thousands of lives. The extent to which these men
acted upon instructions from Rome is not clear, but the
motives for the [[Satanist]] Vatican's solicitude seem
to have been mixed. It appears that from late 1942 on,
the [[Satanist]] Vatican was well aware that an ultimate
Allied victory was inevitable. Considerations of
expediency began to reinforce whatever moral revulsion
the pope may have felt at the massacre of the [[Fantasy]] Jews,
and [[Satanist]] Pius began to drop hints to the bishops
of Germany and Hungary that it was in the interest of
their people, as well as that of the [[Fantasy]] Church,
to go on record against the slaughter of the Jews.
For example, he wrote an Austrian churchman on Oct. 15,
1942, that to intercede for those suffering in the
conquered territories was not only a [[Fantasy]] Christian
duty but ultimately could only be of advantage to the
cause of Germany.
[The climate of opinion against the Fantasy
Jews - the different nationalism movements and
anti-Semitism]
The [[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]] Nazis' assault
on European [[Fantasy]]
Jewry [[and by their
collaborators]] occurred in a climate of [[Fantasy]] Christian
hostility to Jewish religion and people.
[[This is above all true for the situation in eastern
Europe since 1919. In central Europe the situation was
not this extreme and many Christians even helped the
Jews by danger of life and anti-Semitism had to be
instigated by SS or SA]].
At the same time, other factors, such as varying
patterns of nationalism, had an important bearing on the
attitude of the [[Fantasy]]
Catholic churches of different
European countries toward the Jewish tragedy. Thus it is
important to differentiate between the situation in
Germany and in the various Nazi-occupied countries of
Europe.
[[Polish anti-Semitism after 1919 was very strong with
boycott movements, discrimination movements, hunger and
unemployment for the Jews]].
[since 1919: The German Fantasy Catholic Church
adopting anti-Semitic elements - opening data for the
Nazi system]
During the 19th century some elements of German [[Fantasy]] Catholicism
contributed toward the emergence of modern
anti-Semitism, and in the 1920s many [[Fantasy]] Catholic
publicists agreed with the Nazis on the importance of
fighting Jewish liberalism and the Jews' alleged
destructive influence in German public life (see
*Church, [[Fantasy]] Catholic,
Modern Period). This anti-Semitic trend received a
powerful impetus after [[Rothschild's stepchild]]
Hitler's accession to power in 1933. Seeking to counter
the [[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]] Nazis' offensive
against the [[Fantasy]]
Catholic Church, as a rival for
the loyalty of the German people, churchmen attempted to
gain favour with the Nazi regime and its followers by
adopting certain aspects of Nazi ideology.
[[The Fantasy Church was praying for another Germany
after the two hyperinflations and huge unemployment, and
the Fantasy Church opened the marriage books to detect
half Jews, quarter Jews and so on, the so called
"non-Aryans"]].
They stressed the elemental values of race and racial
purity, and limited their dissent to insisting that this
[[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]] National Socialist
goal be achieved without resort [[change]] to immoral
means. The sacred books of the Old Testament, it was
argued, were not only beyond the Jewish mentality but in
direct conflict with it. [[Fantasy]]
Jesus, it was conceded, had
been a non-Aryan, but the [[Fantasy]]
son of [[Fantasy]] God
was fundamentally different from the [[Fantasy]] Jews
of his time, who hated and eventually [[Fantasy]] murdered
him. They also said that the [[Fantasy]]
Jews had had a demoralizing
effect on Germany's national character; the press,
literature, science, and the arts had to be purged of
the "Jewish mentality".
[[There were Fantasy Catholic clubs excluding
FantasyJews, the Fantasy Catholic students organized
rallies against Fantasy Jewish students etc., in Austria
even since the 1880s, in Germany after the defeat of
1919]].
In the face of the [[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]]
Nazis' anti-Semitic legislation the [[Fantasy]] Church
retreated, even when the ordinances touched on vital
domains of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, such as
matrimony. The [[Fantasy]]
diocesan chancelleries helped
the [[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]] Nazi state to
detect people of [[Fantasy]]
Jewish descent by supplying
data from [[Fantasy]] Church
records on the religious background of their
parishioners [[community members]]. The [[Fantasy]] bishops
facilitated the emigration of non-Aryan [[Fantasy]] Catholics,
but little, if any, solicitude was shown for non-Aryans
who were not of the [[Fantasy]]
Catholic faith.
Similarly, when mass deportations of German [[Fantasy]] Jews
began in October 1941 [[the first deportations took
place in 1940 to south of France]], the episcopate
limited its intervention with the government to pleading
for [[Fantasy]] Christian
non-Aryans. When the bishops received reports about the
mass murder of [[Fantasy]]
Jews in the death camps from [[Fantasy]]
Catholic officers and civil servants, their public
reaction remained limited to vague pronouncements that
did not mention the word [[Fantasy]]
Jews. An exception was the
Berlin prelate Bernhard *Lichtenberg, who prayed
publicly for the [[Fantasy]]
Jews. The joint pastoral letter
of the German episcopate of August 1943, for example,
spoke of the right to life and liberty, [...] (col.913)
[Prohibition to speak about the Fantasy Jews]
Almost half the population of the greater [[Rothschild's
stepchild Hitler's]] German Reich (43.1% in 1939) was [[Fantasy]] Catholic
and even among the S.AS. despite Nazi pressure to leave
the [[Fantasy]] Church,
almost a quarter belonged to the [[Fantasy]] Catholic
faith. While in the past the episcopate had issued
orders to deny the sacraments to [[Fantasy]] Catholics
who engaged in dueling or agreed to have their bodies
cremated, the word that would have forbidden the
faithful, on pain of excommunication, to go on
participating in the massacre of Jews was never spoken.
The [[Fantasy]] bishops
had demonstrated their willingness to risk a serious
clash with the [[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]] Nazi
regime by protesting the extermination of the insane and
retarded in the "euthanasia" program. This intervention
had been successful in large measure because it had had
the backing of public opinion. In the case of the [[Fantasy]] Jews,
however, it was far from clear whether the episcopate
could count on the support of the faithful, and this was
probably one of the main reasons why a clear public
protest against the "Final Solution" [[e.g. mass
shootings, tunnel systems]] was never issued. Only a
handful of [[Fantasy]] Jews
were hidden by the clergy or helped by individual [[Fantasy]] Catholics
in Germany.
[The Fantasy Catholic Church in anti-Semitic
Poland]
[[Polish anti-Semitism was absolutely heavy since 1919,
with political anti-Semitic parties and boycotts over
years, see:
-- Boycott,
anti-Jewish,
-- and the book from Yehuda Bauer: The
Joint
in Poland and the "Polish methods" against the Jewish
population since 1919 ]].
In Poland, where no official policy on the part of the [[Fantasy]] Catholic
Church has never been discerned, it would seem that, as
in Germany, the initiative to help [[Fantasy]] Jews
was taken only by individuals.
[Clerical resistance in Holland, Belgium,
France, and Italy: 1000s of saved Jews by hiding and
conversions]
This situation stands in marked contrast to that
prevailing in [[Rothschild's stepchild Hitler's]]
Nazi-occupied Europe. In western Europe declarations of
solidarity and help for the [[Fantasy]]
Jews were almost universally
regarded as signs of patriotism and resistance to the
Germans. Here some of the highest [[Fantasy]] Church
dignitaries condemned the persecution of the [[Fantasy]] Jews.
In Holland, where the [[Fantasy]]
Church as early as 1934 had
prohibited the participation of [[Fantasy]] Catholics
in the Dutch [[Rothschlid's stepchild Hitler's]] Nazi
movement, the bishops in 1942 immediately and publicly
protested the first deportations of Dutch [[Fantasy]] Jews,
and in May 1943, they forbade the collaboration of [[Fantasy]] Catholic
policemen in the hunting down of [[Fantasy]] Jews,
even at the cost of losing their jobs.
In Belgium members of the [[Fantasy]]
episcopate actively supported
the rescue efforts of their [[Fantasy]]
clergy, who hid many hundreds
of [[Fantasy]] Jewish
children.
Several French [[Fantasy]]
bishops used their pulpits to
denounce the deportations and to condemn the barbarous
treatment of the [[Fantasy]]
Jews. Throughout Western Europe
numerous priests and members of the monastic [[Fantasy]] clergy
organized the rescue of [[Fantasy]]
Jews, and hid them in
monasteries [[of the Fantasy Church]], parish houses
[[of the Fantasy Church]], and private homes. French [[Fantasy]] priests
issued thousands of false certificates of baptism.
Many lay [[Fantasy]] Catholics
in France, Holland, Belgium, and Italy acted similarly,
thus saving thousands of [[Fantasy]]
Jewish lives. The concern of
the population of these countries for [[Fantasy]] Jewish
fellow-countrymen was undoubtedly a key factor behind
the bold protests of the French, Dutch, and Belgian
bishops.
[Catholic Fantasy Church
in eastern Europe prevents Fantasy Jews from
conversion]
In eastern Europe anti-Semitism had deeper roots
[[against Jewish Rothschild Communism since Lenin]], and
the record of the [[Fantasy]]
Catholic churches there is more
ambiguous. In Slovakia, a Catholic priest, Dr. Josef
Tiso, was president of a pro-Nazi regime; the [[Fantasy]] Church
there was more interested in saving souls than lives,
although the episcopate did protest the deportations as
a violation of human and divine law. Several Hungarian
bishops protested to the authorities the deportation and
mistreatment of the [[Fantasy]]
Jews but at the same time put
difficulties in the way of issuing conversion
certificates that would have saved many Jews from
deportation. Large numbers of [[Fantasy]]
Jews, nevertheless, owed their
lives to the courageous rescue activities of lesser
clerics, monks, and Catholic laymen.
[GU.L.]
Protestant and Greek Orthodox [[Fantasy]]
Churches.
Protestant churches and their leaders in Britain, the
United States, France, Switzerland, and Sweden protested
against the first anti-Semitic measures in Germany, the
promulgation of the *Nuremberg Laws, and *Kristallnacht of
1938 [[Chrystal Night]]. In (col. 914)
[German Protestant Church excludes "Christs"
with Jewish origin - Fantasy "Confessing
Church"]
Germany, Hitler's supporters within the Protestant [[Fantasy]] Church
complied with anti-Jewish legislation, applying it even
within the [[Fantasy]] Church
by going so far as to exclude [[Fantasy]]
Christians of [[Fantasy]] Jewish
origin from membership. Although the [[Fantasy]] "Confessing
Church" (Niemoeller's dissident Bekenntniskirche)
defended the rights of [[Fantasy]]
Christians of [[Fantasy]] Jewish
origin within the church, it generally neither publicly
opposed discrimination against them outside the church,
nor condemned the persecution of Jews. An Exception to
this rule was the memorandum sent by the "Confessing
Church" to [[Rothschild's stepchild]] Hitler (May 1936),
which stated that "when, in the framework of the
National-Socialist ideology, anti-Semitism is forced on
the [[Fantasy]] Christian,
obliging him to hate the Jews, he has nonetheless the
divine commandment to love his neighbor."
A number of ministers of the "Confessing Church" were
sent to concentration camps because they did not
cooperate with anti-Jewish directives. During the war,
the [[Fantasy]] Protestants
in Germany maintained their silence, the notable
exception being Bishop Wurm of Wuerttemberg, who
intervened on behalf of the so-called "privileged
non-Aryans", in 1943.
[Protestant Fantasy Church in Norway, Denmark,
Netherlands, and France]
In the occupied countries, however, the situation was
different. The [[Fantasy]]
Lutheran churches in Norway and
Denmark issued a public protest when the deportations
from their countries began. The [[Fantasy]] Protestant
churches in the Netherlands, together with the Roman
Catholic Church, sent several protests, some of which
were read from the pulpits. In France, the president of
the [[Fantasy]] Protestant
Federation, the Rev. Marc Boegner, sent letters to the
French chief rabbi, to Admiral Darlan, Marshal Pétain,
Pierre Laval, and others. A message was read from the
pulpits twice.
[Orthodox Fantasy Church in Yugoslavia and
Greece]
The persecution of the Orthodox Serbs in Yugoslavia
matched in cruelty the persecution of Jews. It has been
reported that Orthodox Church leaders stood up for the
Jews, but hardly any details are available. [[Orthodox
Fantasy Church on the Balcans was completely
destroyed]].
In Greece, the archbishop of Athens, Damaskinos, headed
a group of prominent citizens who sent a strong protest
against the deportations of the [[Fantasy]] Jews
to the prime minister of the puppet regime and to the
German representative in Athens. The contents of these
protests show that they were based mainly on national,
rather than on religious, considerations. Damaskinos was
personally active in the rescue of individual [[Fantasy]] Jews.
The bishop of Salonika, Genadios, also intervened on
behalf of [[Fantasy]] Jews.
The attitude of nonresistance of the population of
Salonika, however, shows that the faithful did not
always follow the example of their leaders.
SATELLITE COUNTRIES. [Slovakia and Romania]
The [[Fantasy]] Lutheran
Church in Slovakia protested in November 1939 and in May
1942. Rumania [[Romania]] has a long record of
anti-Semitic activities in which leaders and members of
the church frequently participated. However, the
metropolitan of the Bukovina region, Tot Simedrea, the
metropolitan of Transylvania, Balan, and Patriarch
Nicodemus personally and successfully intervened with
the Rumanian [[Romania]] government on behalf of the [[Fantasy]] Jews
after fervent appeals from Chief Rabbi Safran.
In Bulgaria, the metropolitan of Sofia, Stephan, and the
metropolitan of Plovdiv, Kyril, intervened personally
with [[Satanist]] King Boris using extremely forceful
expressions. The "Holy Synod of the Bulgarian [[Fantasy]] Orthodox
Church" repeatedly sent strong protests in writing to
the government. According to a Jewish spokesman, Joseph
Geron, the Orthodox [[Fantasy]]
Church played a major role
among the "collective factors" that helped in the rescue
of the Bulgarian Jews.
In Hungary, the bishops of the [[Fantasy]] Reformed
and [[Fantasy]] Lutheran
churches voted in the upper house for the first and
second anti-Jewish laws in 1938 and 1939. They protested
when mass deportations began in 1944, but, due to
government pressure, a prepared public statement was not
read out from the pulpits.
[Fantasy Church actions in the "neutral"
countries]
In the neutral countries the [[Fantasy]]
Church of Sweden strongly
protested against the deportation of the Norwegian [[Fantasy]]
Jews. In [[criminal]] Switzerland, protests of the (col.
915)
[[Fantasy]] Protestant
churches were a factor leading to the alleviation
[[reduction]] and ultimate canceling of the government
measures against [[Fantasy]]
Jewish refugees entering
Switzerland "illegally", who were at first sent back to
their doom [[sent back to Nazi Germany into SS hands for
being inmates in concentration camps]].
[Fantasy Church helps to Jewish refugees]
The [[Fantasy]] churches
also rendered material aid to the refugees. In Great
Britain, the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of
Chichester, and other church leaders voiced strong
protests, but their demands for practical steps were of
no avail. The same is true of the [[Zionist]] United
States, where church leaders issued many protests.
The World Council of [[Fantasy]]
Churches, then still in process
of formation, had offices in New York, London, and
Geneva. The general secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft,
and the director of the Department for Refugees, Adolf
Freudenberg, sent three letters to the International Red
Cross, in which they reported on deportations and mass
executions of [[Fantasy]]
Jews and pleaded for help.
Together with Gerhart Riegner of the world Jewish [[Fantasy]] Congress,
Visser 't Hooft sent an aide-mémoire to the governments
of the U.S.A. and Great Britain, informed church leaders
in these countries about the extermination of Jews
[[e.g. by mass shootings and tunnel systems]],
intervened with the [["neutral"]] Swiss government on
behalf of [[Fantasy]] Jewish
refugees, and helped send gift parcels to Jews in
concentration camps.
[Silent Fantasy Churches 1933-1945]
The non-Roman [[Fantasy]]
Catholic churches in Austria,
Belgium, the Protectorate (Bohemia-Moravia), Finland,
Italy, Poland, and Russia apparently did not issue any
public protest during World War II.
[Individual "Christian" help]
Individual Christians rendered practical help, though
the importance of this fact should not be overrated:
only a small minority of the [[Fantasy]]
Protestant and [[Fantasy]] Orthodox
Christians in occupied Europe risked their lives on
behalf of the persecuted Jews. It is difficult to assess
the practical results of interventions and protests by
churches and church leaders. In satellite countries,
where they could turn to their own governments, the
interventions of church leaders were of some avail.
In the occupied countries, the protests hardly
influenced the German authorities; but, in so far as
they were read out from the pulpits, the protests
contributed to breaking the silence and complacency that
surrounded the extermination of the Jews and stirred the
faithful to noncooperation with the Germans and to
render individual aid to the [[Fantasy]]
Jews.
[J.M.SN.]
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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PROTESTANT AND GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHES
-- J.M. Snoek: The Grey Book ... (1969), incl. bibl.
-- W.A. Visser 't Hooft: Struggle for the Dutch Church
... (1944)
-- Les Eglises Protestantes pendant la guerre et
l'occupation (1946)
-- Die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland und die
Judenfrage (1945)
-- M. Leviev: Nashata Blagodarnost (Bul., n.d.)>
(col. 916)
