that day was disturbing

The German people were starving at the hands of Jewish bankers and merchants just as Palestinians suffer today. Regretfully Jews learned nothing from the holocaust experience. Either Benedict, Pius or Jewish leaders should have explained it to them. Pity they do not. Those who do not learn from history must repeat it.

Horrors in the Ukraine by Stalin's slaughterers and Mao's in China have to be explained as worse than Hitler's .

Jill has an important point. In addition the Pope highlighted the 'unprecedented' cruelty of the camps and pinpointing of the Jews. Heroically Pius XII saved 1/3rd of Roman Jewry. The U.S. turned them away!

Mr. Blitzen, German people did suffer greatly after the first world war. Blaming their suffering on Jewish bankers was one of the profound national errors that led Germans to start another world war only a generation later — and thereby to bring on themselves far greater suffering, at the impersonal hand of a rapid global advance of modern arms, at whose brutal invention and employment no one excelled more than the Germans themselves. It's you who need to learn the historical lesson that most Germans did learn well after that second, horrible war: we all share some blame in great human catastrophes, and it's our own failings, first and last, that we have to repent of and attempt to ovecome.

The Catholic Church rightfully claims that she is an expert in human nature. One of the aspect of that human nature is the accusation that Pope Pius 'didn't do enough'. Yet almost no one asks if anyone did anything better - including those who now make the accusation. But the Church, as ever always guided by the Holy Spirit, also knows that behind those accusations is the common sinister to 'prevail against the Church' so that they can go on with their own agenda of hegemony and implement something even worst than what Hitler did. But Christ already made the guarantee - and an on going warning that indeed, the gates of hell will attempt to prevail against her - that not even the most extremely powerful diabolic entities, together with their human cohorts in global politics, financial world, media will succeed in their scheme. The little girl from Fatima, Jacinta already summed it up where they (the enemies of the Church) are headed: 'Those who commit the sin against the flesh will go to hell. Powerful they may be, but pitiable are they in their eternal destiny.

If you don't accept, fully, and religiously "believe in" our version of the WW2 you will be beaten, jailed, and even killed. Based on our version of the WW2 events, you must pay us Billions of dollars per year. We have ZERO scientific or archaeological evidence for our specific WW2 stories, but if you question it or ask to see any evidence, then -> by law <- you will be jailed in many of the European countries. The above facts alone should make it quite clear how true our officially accepted version of WW2 events and stores really are. Remember historical truth does not need Laws to protect it. Real historical facts can easily stand on the strength of scientific evidence. The fact that you are jailed if you ask to see real scientific evidence of the official WW2 history, should tell you some thing. Take a look at the following websites: www.nafcash.com ; www.birobidjan.co.uk

It’s disingenuous to claim that Pope Pius XII was afraid that by speaking out on behalf of the hounded Jews things would become worse. There was no way things could have been worse; the Germans were killing about 10,000 Jews in Auschwitz every day—and that was just one of the death camps. They were not killing more because they did not have the capacity. Nothing the Pope could have done or said would have made that hell worse. The example of what happened in Holland is misleading, because the Germans would have killed those Jews anyway. To the Germans a baptized Jew was still a Jew, so the fact that the Church spoke out did not precipitate their deportation: their ancestry did.

In any case, it’s wrong to focus so much on Pope Pius while excluding everything else. He was key, because he had the most power to be a positive influence, but he was not the only one. His failure is the same as that of the vast majority of the Church and the faithful who, actively or passively, contributed to the genocide.

Gabriel Wilensky
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Hurray Gabriel Wilensky,
At last a voice of reason--the Catholics on this blog will deify and beatify this jerk Pius about whom there was nothing pious. He did not speak out for fear the Nazis would do the Jews in worse? What a load of crock!
But wait till the Catholics ask you for proof that any Jews were murdered at all or wait till they tell you that the number of Jews murdered is a gross exaggeration devised by Jews to earn the pity of the global populace and hold it hostage to guilt. Not too long ago on these blogs I was subjected to the blows of the Holocaust deniers who masqueraded as Holocaust acceptors but only if the number of Jews dead would be revised to reflect a far, far lower figure than 6 million. Is this Benedict for real? He comes up with perfect excuses to raise to sainthood those who should be left in the dust heap of history. When Pius is saint what is one to pray to him for? Pray that one will have the courage to be silent when innocents are being carted off in cartloads to be tortured and beheaded? "O pray St.Pius, give me the courage to be utterly mute when my fellow men are being persecuted and massacred. Give me the divine will to be silent because if I speak that might make things worse. Give me the intrepidity to hide until all the killing is over and give me the luck to be exalted as a saint for my perfidy. Amen!"
Ravensfan Anon

Yet again Anon you let your prejudice cause you to stereotype all Catholics. I'm against Pius's elevation to sainthood as I don't see his life's work as meriting such an honor. That being said maybe you or Gabriel could explain how anything Pius could have said or done that could have made any difference in stopping or slowing down the genocide committed by the Nazis. For that matter I didn’t even see wither of you make a case that Pius did nothing as it appears you claim. I am curious why both Gabriel and you only seem to concern yourselves with the millions of Jews slaughtered yet fail to mention the other Nazi victims like Gypsies, Russians and other Slavic people who were also wholesale slaughtered by the Nazis?

So we'll talk about the gypsies, the gays, the Slavs and everyone else the Nazis slaughtered and assert in the face of such diverse peoples murdered Pius's tacit approval stinks even more! Satisfied Ravensfan?

Anon - Well you addressed one of my points. Actually the only one I thought you would address. Any reason why you ignored the others?

there you are Ravensfan--the Catholic stalwart is at it again--meet you at the Pope Pius controversy--it seems that the Vatican will have its war time mea culpa on line to prove that Pius was a life saver and not a life destroyer. Altered history is altered history on line or off line isn't it? What do you think of the overly Concerned Citizen whose pea brain can't tell the difference between Ravensfan and Ravensfan Anon--I see you gave up on that guy completely--but not on Robert you keep plugging away your arguments into Littel with the tenacity of a mule.
Ravensfan Anon