The Pope and World War II

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='phatcatholic' post='976689' date='May 9 2006, 07:49 PM']
i have more links on this issue than on any other topic in the directory. when you click on this link, note the small link for pg. 2 at the bottom.
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/directory/index.php/cat_id/344"]http://www.phatmass.com/directory/index.php/cat_id/344[/url]
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phatcatholic is so amazingly cool

[Lounge Daddy]

[b][size=2]Hitler's Mufti[/size][/b]

for me the most interesting thing i found was:
1 - the misconception of the wartime Pope over time (a lie repeated often enough...)

2 - Hitler DID have a cleric who personally aided him... but this cleric was far from a Catholic Christian

Hitler's aid was the Islamic "Grand" Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini

An article by Rabbi David G. Dalin on myth of "Hitler’s Pope" that not only do many people today believe this lie...
[quote]"But there’s something else that has been ignored nearly all together. Precisely at the moment when Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Rome (and throughout Europe) was saving thousands of Jewish lives, Hitler had a cleric broadcasting from Berlin who called for the extermination of the Jews.

He was Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the viciously anti-Semitic Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who resided in Berlin as a welcome guest and ally of the Nazis throughout the years of the Holocaust.

As I point out in my book, The Myth of Hitler’s Pope, the outrageous calumny directed against Pope Pius XII has not only besmirched the reputation of a man who did more than any other religious leader to save Jewish lives, it has deflected attention from the horrible truth of Hajj Amin al-Husseini—who continues to be a revered figure in the Muslim world.[/quote]
[url="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=19064"]--- from Front Page Magazine August 2005[/url]

The Mufti was also one of Adolf Eichmann closest friends and advisors, to the point of being accused of being a chief architect of Hitler's "final solution."

[quote]The affidavit also reported on instances when Eichmann was willing to send Jewish prisoners to Palestine, but Husseini intervened and the prisoners were killed. When pressed by an underling to explain why they could not just be deported, Eichmann reportedly said: “I am a personal friend of the Grand Mufti. We have promised him that no European Jew would enter Palestine any more. Do you understand now?”

Three letters from the mufti, written in 1944, verify his opposition to sending Jews to Palestine. Addressing the foreign offices of Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, Husseini wrote: “I beg Your excellency to permit me to draw your distinguished attention to the necessity of preventing these Jews from leaving your country for Palestine; and if there are any reasons which make their withdrawal necessary,” that they be sent to “other countries, as for example Poland, where they would find themselves under active surveillance.” As critics have noted, Jews in Poland at this time were all being executed. [/quote]
[url="http://www.crisismagazine.com/december2005/rychlak.htm"]--- from Crisis Magazine, Dec 2005[/url]

It's tragic when lies are taken as fact, but it is dangerously irresponsible when truth is deliberately masked by dishonesty.

[img]http://www.crisismagazine.com/images/dec2005.jpg[/img]

[Lil Red]

thanks LD! :