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Here’s some interesting photos of Catholic priests in supprt of Hitler. I see photos like the ones below of the German Catholics supporting Hitler and it just makes me sick to my stomach.  Did Hitler make them do it ?  Did the Catholics put up with it out of fear, or simply because they also wanted to wipe out the Jewish people?

Here are some Catholic priests giving Hitler the a-okay salute during a Youth Rally in Berlin, Germany (August 1933)

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.  THis is the funeral procession of Bishop Bares in Berlin (1935)

(Ablove) 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.

Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler.

Hans-Gert Pöttering was elected the new President of the European Parliment.

Mr Pottering has been a member of the European parliment since 1979.  He studied law at Columbia University in New York, and political sciance and history at Bonn, Geneva.

The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union, elected by EU citizens once every five years. Together with the Council of Ministers, it composes the legislative branch of the institutions of the Union. It meets in two locations: Strasbourg and Brussels.

And the Cry Baby award goes to: Murat Kurnaz, A turkish citizen was arrested in Afghanistan a couple months after 9/11. He was taken to Guantanamo bay in Cuba. He claims that some German elite military members had abused him. Kurnaz gets the cry baby award!

During his term in Guantanamo, Kurnaz claims he was repeatedly mistreated, psychologically tortured and kept undernourished. That sounds like a typical day at work to me ; )

“They asked me if I knew who they were and then they said ‘We are the KSK’,” he told Euro MPs, adding that the men had German flags on their uniforms and spoke German with him.

“I thought they would have some questions and that they could help me, but they told me I had chosen the wrong side,” Kurnaz said. 

What the heck was a German -Turk doing in Afghanistan is all I want to know? And why has it taken him almost 6 years to file a suit? Like my Father always told me ” You are judged by the company you keep” If you hang out with terrorists, you will get burned.  Read the full story

On December 28t, A German pastor,  Rev. Roland Weisselberg, waited until after communion, went outside his church, and lit himself on fire. He died the next day in the hospital.

He committed suicide to protest Islam’s growing influence on a Christian continent that had lost its faith. Terrorism and strains from integrating a growing Muslim population have transformed Europe into a cultural battleground. Weisselberg, a slight, fidgety man with a penchant for quoting poetry, fretted that Christians had forgotten God while Muslims were increasingly devoted. But his act on that final day of October, more riddle than signpost, has left friends and colleagues mystified over its interpretation.

There has to be a better way to protest.  And I thought suicide was a sin?!