2/07/03
THE VATICAN-NAZI CONNECTION
By Al Hembd
Below is an article from
Newsweek magazine, documenting the Vatican's
expectations during the
first part of WWII that the Nazis would win the
war, and that therefore, it
would be in the Vatican's interests to appease
the Axis Powers. The article also then details how the
Vatican assisted
the escape of numerous Nazi
war criminals to Argentina after the war.
It
then also chronicles how
that the Vatican interceded for the Utashe--the
Croats who murdered
thousands upon thousands of Serbs, because of their
being Serbian Orthodox.
An actual photograph--very
legible--of the article from the original
magazine can be found at
http://www.albertoaic.com/images/pope_nazi.jpg.
The title of the article is
"Did Wartime Pope Anticipate a Nazi Victory?"
It is from the November 15,
1999 issue of Newsweek Magazine. The
article
was published upon the
release of many previously classified US government
documents.
The text of the article in
large letters, can be found at
http://www.jasenovac.org/JRI_files/library/2.htm. "Jasenovac", by the way,
is the name of one of the
death camps that the murderous Croat Pavelic
maintained, when, under the
auspices of Archbishop Stepinac (now beatified,
on his way to sainthood),
Pavelic butchered 600,000 Serbs, and forced
conversions of another
200,000 to Roman Catholicism. One of
the Serbs'
"crimes" were,
hiding Jews. Another, of course, was
not worshipping the
Pope.
One of the atrocities that
Pavelic's men performed--some of them
Jesuits--was to cut out the
eyes of their victims, while they were yet
alive. And then, put them on a string, and wear
them around their waists.
Details of the Croat
atrocities that were committed, under the direct
leadership of the Vatican,
are itemized in Avro Manhattan's book, "The
Vatican's Holocaust,"
which is online at
http://www.geocities.com/vaticancityrome/vatican_holocaust/holocaus.html.
Below is the text of the
article from Newsweek which is found at
http://www.jasenovac.org/JRI_files/library/2.htm. Also, a web page with
links to several articles
concerning the Vatican Holocaust against the
Serbs can be found at
http://www.jasenovac.org/JRI_files/library/libraryindex.htm
US News & World Report
11/15/99
VATICAN'S ROLE
Did a wartime pope anticipate a Nazi victory??
Few states guard the secrecy of their archives more closely than
the
Vatican.
But as the United States and
other nations continue declassifying their
World
War II documents, more and
more details of the behavior and attitude of the
Vatican's wartime leader,
Pope Pius XII, have come to light.
Now it appears that during
some of the most crucial moments of the war, the
Vatican believed that Nazi
Germany would probably defeat the Allies. In a
recently rediscovered coded
cable sent to the State Department on June 29,
1942, Harold Tittmann, the
U.S. envoy to the Holy See, reports that "a
highly
placed Vatican official has
intimated to me for the first time . . . that
he
did not (repeat not) believe
that the Allies were in a position to win the
war in Europe."
Tittmann goes on to say that he is especially concerned
because the official in
question "is in close touch constantly with the
pope
himself and has always
professed to me his enthusiasm for the Allied
cause."
Tittmann and other Allied
envoys feared that given this view, Pope Pius XII
would push for a compromise
Allied peace "settlement" and "that the pope's
peacemaking ambitions might
be exploited for their own ends by the Axis
powers." Washington,
Tittmann wrote, "should make every effort to disabuse
him of any notion he might
have that the Allies might agree to anything
short
of complete defeat of
Hitler."
This latest insight into the
Vatican view of Nazi power-combined with Pope
Pius's obsessive fear of
Soviet communism-lends new understanding to the
wartime pope's refusal to
unequivocally condemn the Nazi slaughter of the
Jews. It also adds a new
dimension to the controversy over the extent of
the
Vatican's participation in
the postwar "rat-line," the odious underground
railroad that smuggled
"anti-Communist" Nazi war criminals and sympathizers
from Europe to Latin
America-together with major parts of loot plundered
from
Jews and other victims of
Nazism.
A soon-to-be-released
Argentine government report confirms the Holy See's
hand in seeking Latin
American visas for fleeing Nazis. According to newly
declassified Argentine
government archives, many such asylum requests were
made directly to the
Argentine ambassador by the Vatican Secretariat of
State's Giovanni Montini.
The report also says that Cardinal Eugene
Tisserant
appealed to Buenos Aires for
visas for Vichy regime collaborators fleeing
liberated France.
Booty. The Vatican
especially interceded on behalf of Croatia's Ustasha
Nazis, including Anton
Pavelic, the Ustasha "führer" who played a major
role
in the extermination of tens
of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies. The
new Argentine government
report, the result of three years of intense
research, confirms that
senior Vatican "personalities" pressed for the
postwar "escape to
Argentina of Pavelic, together with a relatively
important
retinue of followers and
looted assets." Included in those assets: almost
$50
million in jewelry as well
as gold coins and ingots, much of it plundered
from Yugoslav Jews, and part
of as much as $250 million in Ustasha booty
believed stashed for
"safekeeping" in the Vatican treasury at the end of
the
war. -R.C.Z.