However, not all Catholics could stomach the deal and four years later three German Cardinals and two German Bishops traveled to the Vatican in 1937 to plead with Pope Pius XI to help protect German Catholics from German oppression. In the summer of 1938 the ailing Pope finally wrote an encyclical entitled Humani Generis Unitas (On the Unity of the Human Race) that strongly condemned German oppression. However, his condemnation was not really in support of humanity but rather in defense against Germans shutting down Catholic Churches and schools where the nuns and priests were reported to molest children. The encyclical was suppressed by opponents within the Vatican and the existence of the lost encyclical wasnt revealed until 1972. On his deathbed the Pope pleaded with his physicians to keep him alive for a couple more days so he could finally oppose Hitler and Mussolini and avert war. He died under mysterious circumstances and on March 2nd, 1939, Eugenio Pacelli, the architect of the deal with Hitler was made Pope. Slovakia became a Nazi puppet state led by the Catholic priest Jozef Tiso. During this period, approximately 70,000 Slovak Jews were sent to concentration camps to perish in the Holocaust. - US State Department profile of Slovakia After Hitler invaded Yugoslavia it split off Croatia as a Catholic state to reward the Vatican for its support and named Fascist Ante Pavelic and his Ustashi thugs as leaders. The Catholic Church openly ruled with Pavelic. Archbishop Alojzije Spinac, the primate of Croatia boldly proclaimed: God who directs the destiny of nations and controls the hearts of kings has given us Ante Pavelic and moved the leader of a friendly and allied people, Adolph Hitler, to use his victorious troops to disperse our oppressors and enable us to create an independent state of Croatia. Glory be to God, our gratitude to Adolf Hitler and infinite loyalty to chief Ante Pavelic. The gift from Hitler of a Catholic Croatian State fulfilled the long held ambition of the Church to realize one of the dreams of the crusades - a Catholic state in the Balkans as a bulwark against Islam. Pavelic named the Archbishop Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army. When Pavelic was praised by the Vatican he was already a convicted murderer and had been sentenced to death in absentia by Yugoslav and French courts for the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, the French Foreign Minister, yet his crimes were only about to begin. Pavelic, his goons and Catholic priests butchered anyone who was not Aryan or Catholic or couldnt afford to buy special high-priced certificates of conversion. The degree of horror unleashed was unmatched by any of Hitlers troops. Children, women, men and the aged were butchered alive in death camps, in their homes and in public displays. Some of the most heinous acts were organized and carried out by Catholic priests and monks. The worst atrocities are being committed in the environs of Archbishop of Zagreb. The blood of brothers is flowing in streams. The Orthodox are being forcibly converted to Catholicism and we do not hear the Archbishops voice preaching revolt. Instead it is reported that he is taking part in Nazi and Fascist parades. - BBC Radio, February 16, 1942 Eight days before the broadcast the former minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Prvislav Grizogono, sent a letter to Pope Pius XII stating: In all these unprecedented crimes, worse than pagan, our Catholic Church has also participated in two ways. First a large number of priests, clerics, friars, and organized Catholic youth actively participated in all these crimes, but more terrible, even Catholic priests became camp and group commanders, and, as such, ordered or tolerated the horrible tortures, murders and massacres of baptized people. None of this could have been done without the permission of the bishops... Yet, the Pope continued the slaughter. In a mere four years an estimated 600,000 people were killed, about 10% of the total population. Per capita this was the greatest mass murder of people in the twentieth century. Tens of millions of dollars were also looted from the Croatian people and flowed into Vatican coffers. After the liberation of Croatia from the Vatican, the Archbishop was sentenced to sixteen years in prison as a war criminal. The Pope was outraged and ordered the excommunication of anyone who participated in the trial. Stepinac was released early in 1951 and returned to the Vatican where his atrocities were rewarded with a Cardinalship. In 1998 Pope John Paul II traveled to blood-stained Croatia to announce the beatification of war criminal Stepinac, the first step in granting Sainthood. Pavelic and the worst of his Ustashi demons were sheltered from justice in the Vatican with their offerings of tons of gold and silver. Pavelic had been previously been captured and was on trial in Nueremburg but the trial was mysteriously brought to a halt and he was transferred to the Vatican. Pavelics contacts are so high and his present position so compromising to the Vatican that any extradition of the subject would deal a staggering blow to the Roman Catholic Church. - William Gowen & Louis Caniglia, US Army Counterintelligence Corps, September 12, 1947 Vatican support for Fascism was the direct and greatest cause of World War II. Mussolini and Hitler could simply not have risen to power without direct Vatican support and assistance. Had the Catholic Church not supported the Fascists war simply wouldnt have happened and tens of millions of lives would have been spared. Perhaps the greatest villain of WW II wasnt Hilter, it was Pope Pius XII, the Catholic Church and all the Catholics that actively and silently supported the horrific crimes against humanity.
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