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			by Greg Szymanski, JDFeb. 11, 2008
 
			from
			
			ArticBeacon Website 
			  
			  
				
					
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						His 2007 Executive Order 
						gave diplomatic immunity and special privileges to the 
						Holy See. |  
			  
			  
			Just like Hitler, 
			
			George W. Bush is the papacy’s 
			good buddy and his
			
			Executive Order of March 7, 2007 (Executive 
			Order 13427-Extending Privileges and Immunities to the Permanent 
			Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations), 
			is a perfect example of how he caters to the wishes of the Vatican.  
			  
			In that little known executive order Bush, 
				
				"granted diplomatic immunity and 
				privileges to the members of the Holy See’s Permanent 
				Observer Mission to the United Nations. Diplomatic immunity 
				ensures safe passage for diplomats outside their home country 
				and they are not subject to lawsuits or prosecution under the 
				laws of the host country.” 
			Prior to Bush’s order, on July 1, 2004, 
			the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution, confirming and 
			strengthening the rights of the Holy See as a Permanent Observer in 
			the UN. 
			The Holy See now enjoys, among other things, the right to 
			participate in the general debate of the General Assembly; the right 
			of reply; the right to have its communications issued and circulated 
			directly as official documents of the Assembly; and the right to 
			co-sponsor draft resolutions and decisions that make reference to 
			the Holy See.
 
			With the Vatican’s power deeply entrenched in
			
			the UN and the politics of the 
			U.S., it is wise to take a behind the scenes look at the
			
			Jesuit Order and the
			
			Knights of Malta, two of the most 
			important groups advancing the Vatican-led
			
			New World Order’s goal of a one 
			world government and religion.
 
			The following information is from an internet page entitled Jesuit 
			Wars. It provides a good synopsis of hidden Vatican and Jesuit power 
			and how it operates.
 In general it can be said that the Jesuits are mainly involved in:
       
			False education 
			This is their main avenue for - initial 
			and sustained - political control!    
			Through the socially, historically, and 
			scientifically flawed education of youngsters and adults. 
			 
				
					
					
					Sciences (and university 
					research funding) for the purpose of socio-psychological 
					control (politics/civics/law, media/sociology, 
					psychiatry/healthcare, history/anthropology/astronomy)
					
					
					Pseudo philosophy about: 
					culture, science, civics, ethics, morality and religion.     
			Religious perversions and propaganda 
			Cult promotion:  
				
					
					
					Catholicism (and its variations)
					
					Freemasonry
					
					Satanism
					
					Mysticism
					
					NewAge-ism
					
					UFO-Aliens (including many 
					books, films and websites on these topics)     
			Political and judicial meddling 
			Tactics:  
				
				Hegelian dialectic deception 
				politics, by creating, infiltrating, controlling multiple sides 
				to further their own agenda (“thesis + antithesis -> 
				synthesis”). 
			The present focus by the media on 
			“Muslim terror threats”, especially after the mass trauma psy-op of 
			9/11, is part of their Hegelian dialectic strategy, to divide groups 
			and direct people’s anger towards this synthesized enemy, instead of 
			the real fascistic threat from the secretive power structures. 
			  
			  
			Misleading people using casuistry
 If the Jesuit mis-education and Catholic missionary strategies do 
			not work in a nation, a covert - and later an overt - war-by-proxy 
			is created to achieve their neurotic goals.
 
			Masonic-insider promotion, infiltration, bribing, threats and 
			assassinations.
 
			Using the many Concordats, 172 to date, that have been signed with 
			‘sovereign’ nations, to give the Vatican institution special 
			privileges.
 
				
				The socialist-fascist European 
				Union and related projects 
				From wikipedia 
				Vatican City is a member of CEPT (telecommunication), 
				Eutelsat (satellite communication), International Grains 
				Council, Intelsat (satellite communication), ITU 
				(telecommunication) and UPU.
   
				The Holy See, which some confuse 
				with the Vatican City state, participates as an observer in 
				African Union, Arab League, Council of Europe, OAS (35 states of 
				the Americas), IOM (migration), and in
				
				the United Nations and its 
				agencies:  
					
						
						
						FAO (food and agriculture)
						
						International Labor 
						Organization (labour)
						
						UNCTAD (trade and 
						investment)
						
						UNEP (environment)
						
						UNESCO (education, science, 
						and culture)
						
						UN-HABITAT (human 
						settlements)
						
						UNHCR (refugees)
						
						UNIDO (industry)
						
						UNWTO (tourism)
						
						WFP (food programs)
						
						WHO (healthcare)
						
						WIPO (patents, copyrights 
						and trademarks) 
				It participates as a guest in NAM 
				(?), and as a full member in IAEA (nuclear energy), OPCW 
				(chemical weapons), OSCE (security). 
			  
			Social perversions of the Jesuits
 
				
					
					
					Fascism ideology (Inquisitions, 
				Communism, Labor Zionism, Nazism, Socialism and centrally 
				planned capitalism, Focus on: fear propaganda, conformity, 
				surveillance and repression) 
					
					Indigenous/Jewish/Christian/Muslim/sovereign culture genocides
					
					Poverty promotion and middle-class 
				destruction
					
					
					
					Pedophile ring support
					
					Controlling the Vatican institution 
				and its wealth (financial administration, archive management, 
				policy/speech/project approval, clergy promotions, etc.). Parts 
				of this work are delegated to the Opus Dei organization.
					
					Controlling and working together 
				with an even older - and more secretive - multi-layered, Papal 
				military order, called the Sovereign Military Order of Malta 
				(“Knights of Malta”, “Knights Hospitallers”, or “SMOM” for 
				short). The SMOM was founded in Jerusalem in 1080 to wage war 
				and steal for the benefit of the Holy Roman Empire. Today, the 
				SMOM itself is controlled by the 
					
					Order of the Garter, which in 
				turn is controlled by the 
					
					Pilgrim Society. 
			  
			  
			Military Order of Malta Operations 
			According to researchers and an 
			informative article in the Covert Action Information Bulletin, 
			the following information contained therein, the Sovereign Military 
			and Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of 
			Malta, known also as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 
			or SMOM, is juridically, politically, and historically unique 
			in the world today. 
			The Bulletin added the following:
 
				
				Representing initially the most 
				powerful and reactionary segments of the European aristocracy, 
				for nearly a thousand years beginning with the early crusades of 
				the Twelfth Century, it has organized, funded, and led military 
				operations against states and ideas deemed threatening to its 
				power. It is probably safe to say that the several thousand 
				Knights of SMOM, principally in Europe, North, Central, and 
				South America, comprise the largest most consistently powerful 
				and reactionary membership of any organization in the world 
				today. 
			Although an exclusively [Roman] Catholic 
			organization, in this century it has collaborated with, and given 
			high awards to non-Catholic extremists in its current crusade 
			against progressive forces in the West, the national liberation 
			movements, and the socialist countries. 
			To be a Knight, one must not only be from wealthy, aristocratic 
			lineage, one must also have a psychological worldview which is 
			attracted to the “crusader mentality” of these “warrior monks.” 
			Participating in SMOM including its initiation ceremonies and feudal 
			ritual dress members embrace a certain caste/class mentality; they 
			are sociologically and psychologically predisposed to function as 
			the “shock troops” of Catholic reaction.
 
			  
			And this is precisely the historical 
			role the Knights have played in the wars against Islam, against the 
			Protestant “heresy,” and against the Soviet “Evil Empire.” 
			  
			The American Association of SMOM
 In Europe SMOM’s membership had been traditionally limited to those 
			who could prove a requisite purity of noble blood for several 
			generations.
 
			  
			Nevertheless, as a concession to the rising political, 
			economic, and military power of the United States, in 1927 SMOM 
			agreed to incorporate an American National Association whose members 
			were not obliged to prove their genealogical pedigree. 
			When the American Association of SMOM was created in 1927 the 
			founding members included:
 
				
					
					
					Patrick Cardinal Hayes
					
					Edward L. Hearn
					
					Nicholas F. Brady
					
					Howard F. Carry
					
					Patrick E. Crowley
					
					James A. Farrell
					
					James A. Fayne
					
					Edward N. Hurley
					
					James J. Phelan
					
					Morgan J. O’Brien
					
					John J. Raskob
					
					John D. Ryan 
			By 1941 Francis Cardinal Spellman 
			was listed as the “Grand Protector” and “Spiritual Advisor” of the 
			Order, with John J. Raskob as Treasurer. Members included John 
			Farrell, then President of U.S.Steel, Joseph P. Grace, and John D. 
			Ryan.  
			  
			In 1934 Raskob, inspired by the French 
			fascist Croix de Feu, and working closely with Morgan Bank’s John 
			Davis, had been a principal financier in the plot to organize a 
			fascist coup in the U.S. The plan failed when General Smedley 
			Butler, who had been set up to lead the project, denounced it. 
			The 1941 list also included Joseph J. Larkin.
 
			  
			According to Charles Higham’s 
			
			Trading With the Enemy,  
				
				Joseph J. Larkin... [vice-president 
				of Chase Manhattan Bank in charge of European affairs] kept the 
				Chase Bank open... in Nazi-occupied Paris throughout World 
				War II... [He] had received the Order of the Grand Cross of 
				the Knights of Malta from Pope Pius XI in 1928. He was an ardent 
				supporter of General Franco and, by extension, Hitler. 
				   
				Morgenthau first suspected him as a 
				fascist sympathizer in Octoher 1936... With the encouragement 
				of Schacht, Larkin took on the Franco account and the Reichsbank 
				account, though the Reichsbank was under the personal control of 
				Hitler....  
			  
			The American-Italian Connection
 From 1932 until 1938 Myron Charles Taylor was the Chairman of 
			U.S. Steel. In 1939 he became the U.S. envoy to Pope Pius XII, a 
			post he would maintain until 1950.
 
			  
			Meanwhile, according to Anthony Cave 
			Brown, OSS chief William Donovan secretly had established an 
			intelligence connection with the Vatican as early as 1941, when he 
			evacuated from Lisbon to New York the Dominican Father Felix A. 
			Morlion, who had founded “a European Catholic anti-Comintern” called 
			Pro Deo.  
			  
			Throughout the war Donovan financed Morlion’s Pro Deo 
			service and in June 1944 he “went to considerable expense, time, and 
			trouble to transport Morlion from New York and establish him at the 
			Holy See.”8 
			Subsequently Morlion became a key figure in Vatican intelligence, 
			working closely with Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Paul VI.
 
			According to Frederic Laurent,
 
				
				“All studies [of the post-WWII Nazi 
				networks] have shown the determining role played by the Catholic 
				Church in the flight of war criminals. Since April 1943, 
				following negotiations between Pius XII and the 
				ultra-reactionary American archbishop Francis Spellman, the Holy 
				See became the clandestine center of Anglo-American espionage in 
				Italy.  
				  
				This collaboration in fact had begun the previous year 
				...... between Earl Brennan, a veteran of the American State 
				Department and Gian Battista Montini, at the time a 
				bishop and Under-Secretary of State at the Vatican. This close 
				collaboration between the future Paul VI and the American secret 
				services continued after the war through the intermediary James 
				Angleton... ” 
			With the American Grand Protector of 
			SMOM already in contact with the Vatican, and Allen Dulles 
			busy negotiating with Nazis in Switzerland, the Americans entered 
			Rome June 4, 1944.  
			  
			On July 7 General Mark Clark was 
			made a Knight Grand Cross of SMOM. 
			The Knights are mainly involved in:
 
				
				
				Working for and with the Black 
				Nobility, the Vatican and the various Papal and Royal Orders, 
				especially the Jesuits who are ultimately in control of the 
				Vatican and the Military Order of Malta.
				
				Working hand in hand with the 
				Commonwealth of Nations, headed by Queen Elizabeth II, which is 
				made up of 53 nations, spanning the globe, accounting for 
				one-fifth of the land mass of the Earth, and a very high 
				percentage of its strategic resources and population. Though 
				nominally an alliance of independent states, the Commonwealth 
				was itself founded, in the late 19th Century, as a perpetuation 
				of the British Empire.”  
				- Jeffrey Steinberg [4] 
			  
			Global business operations
 Banks and international financial structures, especially the Central 
			banks and their superstructure the
			
			Bank for International Settlements 
			(BIS).
 
				
				“... the little-known but extremely 
				powerful Bank for International Settlements headquartered in the 
				city (Basel, Switzerland) spent the 1930s and ‘40s quietly 
				laundering the Nazi’s ill-gotten gains under a cloak of 
				neutrality.”  
			(See also: Banking in Switzerland) 
			Investment banking (real-estate investment & development, venture 
			capital, hedge funds, securities trading, ...) 
			
 
			  
			Global-control funding organizations 
				
				
				European Investment Bank  
				(BBC 
				funding case: Note also that the BBC has a Stonyhurst Jesuit-college trained director-general:
				Mark Thompson) 
				  
					
					
					Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 
					(This largest transparently operating charitable foundation 
					in the world is controlled by 3 trustees: 
					
					(Knight Commander of the Order 
					of the British Empire) Bill Gates, 
					
					(Bilderberger) Melinda Gates,
					
					
					(billionaire) Warren Buffett”.
					 
				  
				Several Trilateral Commission 
				members work for this ‘charity’ project.) 
				 
				
				Heritage Foundation (“... received 
				support from nearly 100 major corporations, including Chase 
				Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, 
				General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Mobil, and Procter & Gamble.”) 
			  
			  
			Secret banking and Offshore banking 
			Media and telecom corporations 
			(entertainment distractions, fear propaganda / mind-control 
			operations, informational repression, surveillance networks)
     
			Military corporations 
				
					
					
					Energy and mining corporations 
					(petroleum, coal, metals, diamonds, water(?), etc.) 
					
					
					Transport corporations 
					(airline/aviation industry, car manufacturing)
					
					Pharmaceutical corporations ... 
					and various other corporations
					
					At the annual meetings of the 
					secretive Bilderberg Group (founded by Knight of Malta 
					Joseph Retinger), geo-politically important business deals 
					are made.
 
			  
			Political and judicial meddling 
				
				“The
				
				Order of Malta retains its 
				claim of sovereignty under international law and has been 
				granted permanent observer status at the United Nations. It 
				issues its own passports, stamps and coins and has formal 
				diplomatic relations with 99 states.”      
			Creating global political structuresPolitical structures: The 
			socialist-fascist European Union and related projects,
			
			United Nations,
			
			World Bank,
			
			International Monetary Fund, ... 
			Military structures: NATO, UN troops,
			
			EU police, Blackwater private 
			military, ...
 
			Managing the global Unified Intelligence Service network and 
			the specific Secret Services to defend and promote the 
			Vatican-Jesuit-Masonic interests.
 
				
				“This Unified International 
				Intelligence Community was built during Rome’s Second Thirty 
				Years’ War (1914-1945) and perfected during Rome’s subsequent 
				Cold War (1945-1990).” 
 
			  
			Policy propaganda for the purpose of social, 
			commercial and military controlPolicy institutes:
 
				
				International policies: 
					
					
					
					
					Chatham House (EU based, 
					formerly called the “Royal Institute of International 
					Affairs” or “RIIA”)
					
					International Institute for 
					Strategic Studies “IISS” (EU-based)
					
					
					
					Trilateral Commission 
				Special international policies: 
					
					
					
					
					Tavistock Institute (EU 
					based, social-psychology research)
					
					Aspen Institute (US based, 
					social-psychology research)
					
					Senlis Council (EU-based 
					drug-policy institute, with offices in Afghanistan, in 
					Kabul, Kandahar and Lashkar Gah) 
				National policies: 
					
					
					
					
					Council on Foreign Relations 
					(US)
					
					American Enterprise Institute 
					(US)
					
					Cato Institute (US)
					
					Creating benign charity fronts 
					(just like 
					the Jesuits like to do), to 
					try and confuse people about their fascistic history and 
					their present operations. (examples: 
					malteser-international.org) 
			Editor’s Note: For any 
			journalist or broadcaster to talk about the
			Illuminati,
			
			Bilderbergers and
			Council on Foreign 
			Relations without making a connection to the
			Knights of Malta 
			reveals they are grossly misinformed or just covering up for the 
			real Vatican-led New World Order culprits.       
   
			
 
 
			  
			  
			
			Vatican-Jesuits-Nazi Photo Gallery
 compiled by Jim Walker
 created: 20 May 1998
 additions: 02 July 2008
 fro 
			NoBeliefs Website
   
			The following photos provide a pictorial 
			glimpse of Hitler, how his Nazis mixed religion with government, and 
			the support for Hitler by the Protestant and Catholic Churches in 
			Germany. 
 
 
			
			SMOKING GUN!
 Hitler with Archbishop Cesare 
			Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin, 1935
 
			  
			 
			On April 20, 1939, Archbishop Orsenigo 
			celebrated Hitler's birthday.  
			The celebrations, initiated by Pacelli 
			(Pope Pius XII) became a tradition.  
			Each April 20, Cardinal Bertram of 
			Berlin was to send "warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer 
			in the name of the bishops and the 
			dioceses in Germany"  
			and added with "fervent prayers which 
			the Catholics of Germany are sending to heaven on their altars."(Source: Hitler's Pope:
			
			The Secret History of Pius XII, by 
			John Cornwell)
     
			 
			Hitler greets Muller the "Bishop of the 
			Reich" and Abbot Schachleitner
 
			
  Hitler greets a Catholic Cardinal
 
			(Source:
			
			USHMM)   
			
  Hitler leaving Church
 Hitler leaves the Marine Church in Wilhelmshaven.
 (Source:
			
			The German Propaganda Archive)
 
       
			Church & State 
			  
			
			 
			Hitler in front of "Church of our Lady" 
			in Nuremberg, Sept. 1934. 
			 
			Photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.(Source:
			
			USHMM)
 
   
			 Hitler signing his autograph for a Christian fan
 (Source: Hitler in Seinen 
			Bergen, Heinrich Hoffmann, Berlin, den 24.9.35)
 
 
			
  Hitler praying
 The caption reads: "Der ergreifende Abschlub der Kundgebung in 
			Wien: Wir treten zum Beten..."
 [The touching and emotional end of the rally in Vienna: Let us 
			pray...]
 (Source: Hitler: The Hoffmann 
			Photographs, Vol. 1, Ray R. Cowdery, Ed., 1990)
   
			
  Hitler's mother's grave
 Klara Hitler was a pious Catholic mother who raised Hitler according 
			to her beliefs.
 Hitler felt grief-stricken over his mother's death. She was buried 
			alongside her husband in Linz, Austria.
 
			German soldiers here pay their respects 
			to the grave in 1938.Note the Christian cross on her monument.
 (Source:
			
			The Importance of Adolf Hitler, by 
			Eleanor H. Ayer, Lucent Books, 1996, p. 25)
 To see what the gravesite looks like today,
			
			click here.
 
 
			
  The Goring Wedding
 Only Christians perform Christian weddings, and the Nazis were no 
			exception.
 Hermann Goring married Emmy Sonnemann, a famous Opera star.
 Adolf Hitler stands in the front row as "Best Man" during the 
			ceremony in the Cathedral by Reichbishop Müller.
 (Source:
			
			ThirdReich.ca)
 
     
			Nazi Christmas
			   
			 
			(Some people seem to think that Hitler 
			banned Christmas, but at no time did he ever ban Christmas or any 
			other Christian holiday.)Autobahn workers as guests of Hitler in the Berlin Sportpalast at 
			Christmas in 1938.
 
			Note the Christmas trees on the right.(Source:
			
			calvin.edu)
 
 
			
  Hitler celebrating Christmas with his soldiers.
 (Source:
			
			calvin.edu)
 
   
			
			 Christmas 1942/43
 (Source:
			
			forum.axishistory.com)
 
 
			
  Christmas 1944 with Nazi officers and their girlfriends.
 Note the German Santa Claus.
 (Source:
			www.dhm.de/)
 
     
			The Concordat between the Vatican and the 
			Nazis
 
			 
			(Source:
			
			Wikipedia)
 
			Cardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli (later to become 
			Pope Pius XII) signs the Concordat between 
			Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 
			1933. Nazi Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen sits at the left, Pacelli 
			in the middle, and the Rudolf Buttmann sits at the right.
 The Concordat effectively legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government 
			to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world.
 
 The full text of the concordat appears on the 
			
			Concordat Watch 
			website. (click 
			
			here to see the text).
 
 
			
			
 SMOKING GUN
   
			 
			Hitler's Brown Army attending and 
			leaving church services. These photos were published by Nazis during 
			Hitler's reign.Source: Das Braune Heer: mit 
			einem geleitwort von Adolf Hitler
 
			Translation: The Brown Army: with a 
			foreword by Adolf Hitler 
			Photos by Heinrich Hoffmann
 
  A Nazi flag flies in front of the Cologne Cathedral, 1937
 (Source:
			
			USHMM)
 
 
 
  Hitler Oath:
 I swear by God,
 this holy oath,
 to the Führer of the German Reich and people.
 Adolf Hitler...
 
			(Source: Hitler: Tyrant of 
			Terror, shown on the History Channel)
 
			  
			  
			Watch movie
 
         
			Nazi Graves
 
			 
			One must not forget that Germany 
			represented the most Christianized country in the world in the 1930s 
			and 40s.  
			Nazi Christian soldiers died as 
			Protestants and Catholics and their grave markers testified to their 
			religion.(Source: Photoarchive of the 
			Thrid Reich: 
			http://stolz.by.ru/)
 
 
			
  ST Front
 (Source:
			Photoarchive of the 
			Thrid Reich)
 
 
  Chaplain with a machine gun unit
 (Source:
			
			axishistory.com)
 Most wars are justified on 
			religious grounds.
 Of course if a soldier felt uneasy about slaughtering others,
 
			they could always turn to a chaplain who 
			would then patiently explain to them  
			that killing is allowed by God 
			and about the righteous morality of war.  
			He might then give a few Biblical 
			examples of God ordained killings.  
			And then he might tell them that 
			Jesus will forgive them and send them to Heaven if they should 
			happen to die.
 
			
  Nazi funeral
 (Source:
			
			Third Reich Depot)
 According to the source, this 
			period photo comes from the SS Heimwehr Danzig Funeral/Festivities
 
			for Fallen SS Soldiers of the "Battle of 
			Westerplatte" that occurred in Poland in 1939.
 
 
			
			
 
			Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in 
			honor of Hitler   
			 
			Note Joseph Goebbels (far right) and 
			Wilhelm Frick (second from right)(Source:
			
			USHMM, Photo source: Bayerische 
			Staatsbibliothek [Bavarian State Library])
 
   
			
			 Franciscan friars gathered around some German soldiers
 (Source:
			
			USHMM)
 
 
			
  An Archbishop with the Nazis
 Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, head of the Diplomatic Corps, attending 
			the Nuremburg Party Rally in September 1933.
 According to Dr. Paul O'Shea, Orsenigo, as Dean of the Corps, it was 
			the Nuncio's role to lead the Corps at all major government 
			functions.
 
			After 1935 Orsenigo did not attend major 
			government propaganda displays.(Photo source:
			
			A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic 
			Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair 
			by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen)
 
			[Note, Goldhagen incorrectly 
			attributes this photo to Cardinal Faulhaber.]
 
 
  Cardinal Bertram in the funeral procession for Bishop Bares, Berlin, 
			7 March 1935
 As a chairman of the German bishop conference the Breslauer Cardinal
 
			Bertram plays a crucial role in shaping 
			the attitude of the German bishops in relation to the National 
			Socialist state.(Photo source:
			
			Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand)
 
 
 
  Welcome Celebration for Bishop Konrad Graf von Preysing in the 
			Sportpalast, Berlin, 8 Sept. 1935
 Note the Catholic Chi-Rho Cross to the right of the Nazi flag.
 
			Chi 
			and Rho are the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ.
			 
			The Chi Rho Cross, or warrior's cross, 
			originated from the monogram of Roman Emperor Constantine.  
			How 
			fitting it appears next to a swastika.Following the death of Berlin's Bishop Bares, Pope Pius XI 
			unexpectedly selects Konrad Graf von Preysing,
 
			a little-known Eichstatt bishop, as 
			bishop of Berlin. 
			 
			Berlin, the region for which he is responsible, now also includes the center of 
			 
			the 
			National Socialist power structure and so requires a high degree of 
			political skill from its ecclesiastical leader.(Photo source:
			
			Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand)
 
 
 
  Priests giving the Hitler salute
 Priests giving the Hitler salute at a Catholic youth rally in the 
			Berlin-Neukolln stadium in August 1933.
 (Source:
			
			A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic 
			Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair 
			by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen)
 
       
			SMOKING GUNS   
				
					
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						| 
						Ludwig Muller, a Nazi 
						sympathizer, and a candidate of Hitler, was elected to 
						the position of Reich Bishop in 1933 as Hitler attempted 
						to unite regional Protestant churches under Nazi 
						control. 
						
						 
						Hitler did not practice separation of Church & 
						State.Although Hitler had problems with the Catholic Church 
						and eventually wanted to replace Catholicism with his 
						brand of Christianity, the very fact that Hitler wanted 
						a united German Church proves that he supported 
						Christianity.
 Berlin, Germany, November 17, 1933.
 (Source:
						
						USHMM)
 | 
						This autographed portrait of 
						Muller shows him wearing the NSDAP-Hoheitsabzeichen 
						(Nazi Eagle party badge) and Feldschnalle (ribbons).(Source: sent by 
						email from Gregers Forssling)
           |  
			  
			
  Reich Bishop Ludwig Muller, Berlin, 1934
 (Photo source:
			
			Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand)
 
 
			
  Mass meeting of the German Christian Movement
 13 Nov.1933
 A radical wing of German Lutheranism and the main Protestant branch 
			supporting Nazi ideology,
 
			the German Christian Movement reconciled 
			Christian doctrine with German nationalism and antisemitism.(Source:
			
			Museum of Tolerance)
 
 
 
  Investiture of Reich Church Bishop, 1933
 Women in traditional dresses joined Nazis at the investiture of 
			Ludwig Muller as Reich Church Bishop.
 
			Müller praised the concept of "one 
			mighty, all-embracing German people's church."(Source:
			
			Museum of Tolerance)
 
 
 
			    
			Deutsche Christen
			(German Christians)
 
			
			  
			The Deutsche Christen (DC) became the 
			voice of Nazi ideology within  
			the Evangelical Church (the Religious 
			Right of their day) and approved by Hitler.  
			They proposed a church "Aryan paragraph" 
			to prevent "non-Aryans" from becoming ministers or religious 
			teachers.  
			Most church leaders solidly supported 
			the "Judenmission."  
			Only a very few number of Christians 
			opposed Nazism such as the "Confessing Christians"  
			(a Church movement not recognized by the 
			Protestant orthodoxy) headed by
			
			Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  
			The support of Nazism by the majority of 
			German Christians  
			and German Christian leaders shows the 
			danger of mixing religion with government.The photo on the left shows Christian worshippers of Christ and 
			Nazism
 
			on the march in front of the Berlin 
			Cathedral. SS guards stand at attention.  
			The head of the march shows members in 
			party and SA uniforms while pastors follow in the rear.Note the flags with the Christian cross with the swastika in the 
			middle (also described as the Double Cross).
 (Photo sources: unknown)
 
 
			  
			  
			See below a movie trailer about the Deutsche Christen, from the 
			documentary film, "Theologians Under Hitler".   
			
 
 
			 
			Deutsche Christen (German Christians)SA storm troopers with placards of the "German Christians," Berlin, 
			July 1933.
 On July 14, 1933, Hitler's government approves a new charter for the 
			Protestant church.
 
			With massive intervention by the NSDAP, 
			the church elections scheduled  
			only a short time later result in a 
			resounding victory for the "German Christians."  
			Hitler himself appeals to all Protestant 
			Christians in a radio speech  
			on the eve of the election to vote for 
			the "German Christians."  
			With its slogan "church must remain 
			church,"(Source: Gedenkstätte 
			Deutscher Widerstand)
 
 
 
			 Presidium of the "German Christians," Berlin, November 13, 1933
 The "German Christians" desired to achieve absolute organizational
 
			and ideological conformity between the 
			Protestant church and the National Socialist state.  
			Following their triumphant success in 
			the Protestant church elections in July 1933  
			and the election of Ludwig Müller 
			to the office of Reich bishop,  
			they feel they have reached the zenith 
			of their power over church policy in the autumn of 1933.(Source: Gedenkstätte 
			Deutscher Widerstand)
 
 
 
			
			 National Bishop Friedrich Coch giving a Hitler greeting in Dresden, 
			10 December 1933
 Dresden pastor Friedrich Coch is one of the leading men of the 
			"German Christians" in Saxony.
 
			The NSDAP's Gau consultant for church 
			matters since 1932,  
			he is elected to the office of state 
			bishop by the "Brown Synod" in August 1933.(Source: Gedenkstätte 
			Deutscher Widerstand)
 
			  
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