Introduction from the Webmaster:

Those among you who have heard the Holocaust downplayed or denied by certain White extremists may be surprised while reading this article that it was much worse than we have heard from academic history books! Not only were millions of Jews murdered, but non-Jews were murdered as well, especially Poles, Orthodox Serbs, Gypsies, and non-compliant Catholics, which all together add up to many MILLIONS MORE murdered!! According to what the author says is the official figure, 25 million died in the concentration camps. If you question that number, please consider this: Who stands to benefit from a lower number of deaths at the hands of the Nazis? The Roman Catholic Church! The Vatican was totally complicit in the murders of the Nazi party, and anyone who denies that is either ignorant of true history of is in denial of the truth.

Not only were Pope Pius XII and his bishops and priests complicit in the murder of millions, the Pope actually intervened during the Nuremberg tribunal on the behalf of the most guilty among the guilty Nazis and got some of them acquitted! One of the murderers of the Poles, Arthur Greiser, had so much blood on his hands, the Polish government did not listen to the Pope’s intervention for him. Quotes from the book:

“Arthur Greiser, former Gauleiter (an official in charge of a district of Nazi Germany) and executioner of Poznan, who was recently condemned to death, has just asked the Pope to be kind enough to intervene on his behalf.”

Official Polish Press Agency, 20 July 1946: “Plus XII has sent a message to the Polish Government, asking that Greiser be reprieved. Not a single Pole will find an ounce of pity in his heart for the blood-thirsty executioner of the nation. Official circles qualify Plus XII’s intervention as stupefying.”

The author, Edmond Paris, uses a great deal of sarcasm throughout his book. An example:

As can be seen, the charity of Our Holy Father the Pope is impeded by neither race nor distance.

I’m sure he doesn’t believe the Pope is holy, or his spiritual father. And the word “charity” is also used sarcastically. The Pope was trying to save Japanese war criminals who he supported.

I hope this short introduction inspires you to read the book. It’s long but because it’s divided into chapter links, you can first read what you find most intriguing.

Translated from the French by A. ROBSON

Foreword

IN my last book, I made it clear that I should allow myself no incursion into the religious field. “The Vatican,” I said, “owing to its twofold nature—at one and the same time temporal and spiritual —is particularly subject to ambiguity. Consequently, I would stress that I have considered only the political side.”

In the present work the same principle has been followed. I have confined myself to highlighting the historical continuity of the retrograde and evil politics of the Vatican, as well as the latter’s overwhelming responsibility in the disasters that have succeeded one another in Europe during the last fifty years.

The following pages lay bare the deceit and crimes in which the Holy See, its representatives throughout the world and its Nazi and Fascist allies have participated, and which their unparalleled hypocrisy has not been able to conceal.

The book opens with a bill of indictment against the Vatican. The charges are taken up separately in the ensuing chapters, where they are matched with ample and incontestable proof of a continued collusion with the torturers of mankind who started the last world catastrophe.

But this collusion is well within the tradition of the Holy See. It dates back for many centuries. In all circumstances, ever since the days of Charlemagne, the Papacy has not ceased to lean upon the Germans, in order to impose its authority and to extend it throughout Europe. The Reformation had undoubtedly disturbed the agreement that for centuries had held good between the Holy See and Mittel-Europa, and had withdrawn a part of the German peoples from obedience to the Vatican. Austria-Hungary alone remained entirely submissive. But, step by step and with infinite patience, the Roman Curia gradually and without pause regained the influence lost, at the same time placing at the service of PanGermanic appetites the entire spiritual ascendancy enjoyed by the Holy See among the Catholics in both the Reich and the rest of Europe. Thus Germany The Great, like the Habsburg Empire, was to serve as a “secular arm” in order to annihilate the influence of Orthodox Russia in the Balkans and to restore the Holy See’s authority in secular France. The game was lost in 1918, but was resumed in 1939, with the Vatican playing the very same card which it is still playing today.

Guy Emery Shipler clearly summarized the importance of this political activity of the Vatican when he wrote “No political event or circumstance can be evaluated without the knowledge of the Vatican’s part in it. And no significant world political situation exists in which the Vatican does not play an important, explicit or implicit part.”

Here, as in the earlier book, I have endeavoured to present the reader with the actual texts upon which my belief rests, in order that he might judge of their meaning and implication. Likewise, in selecting these quotations, I have had recourse to books and newspapers which are not considered hostile to the Holy See, and whose testimony is therefore the more convincing.

Politics of the Holy see: Bill of Indictment

THE continuity of the Vatican’s anti-liberal policy. — The fatality of its agreement with the Germanic world. — An Italian Member of Parliament exclaims: “The Pope’s hands are dripping with blood!” — An inquiry into the facts reveals the primordial role of the Vatican in the preparation of the two world wars. — The result: the irremediable decline of Europe. — Silence before the crimes, a consequence of papal absolutism. — The iron sceptre of the new “oppressor of the peoples”. — Curious fate of a religion that was to “liberate souls”. — After the war. The Holy See resumes control of the Germanic “secular arm”. “Nothing has changed. The pious Adenauer has replaced Hitler …”.— 1957: Vast gathering of the former SS and Waffen SS of Europe. — By means of the “European” plans, the Vatican intends to subjugate France to Germany. The means which enabled it to weaken her: the war of Indo-China, the Suez “coup”, the rebellion of North Africa. — The same dissolving action in Darkest Africa and Madagascar.

THE period of thirty years or so covered by this book clearly reveals the historical continuity in the Vatican’s anti-liberal policy and, consequently, the permanent nature of the Holy See’s agreement with the Germanic world. This agreement, which may be qualified as fatal, is admirably defined in the following lines written by Rene Boylesve (of the Academic francaise), a Catholic, but a patriot, during the first world war:

“No! the Church seeks not virtue, but herself, her aim and her recruitment; her true concern is the constant swelling of her ranks, the strengthening of her power. Are you then surprised at her predilection (preference) for Germany, despite the latter’s crimes? The Church and Germany? But they are sisters. Both love themselves for themselves alone and are hypnotized by their own powers; both know perfect organization, discipline, hierarchy and contempt of liberty; both know how to justify their methods; both exercise dissimulation and hypocrisy; in short both are opposed to the Christian spirit.”

Subsequent events have tragically confirmed this very clear sighted judgement. Four popes have mounted the throne of Saint Peter since the outbreak of the first world war, and their attitude has been invariably the same towards the two rival camps of Europe: Western democracies and Central European Empires. But, as will be seen, it is no mere partiality for which the Holy See is blamed, but first and foremost its decisive role in the preparation of both conflicts, its never-failing support of the aggressor.

The extollers of Pope Pius XII may well cover their faces when an Italian Member of ParIiament exclaims: “The Pope’s hands are dripping with blood!” Nevertheless, simply to recall the facts will be to build up a terrible indictment of the Vatican.

In Germany, before 1914, the Catholic Zentrum wholeheartedly supported the belligerent preparations of the Imperial Government. Its chiefs were already proclaiming Germany’s “great political and moral mission” in the world. “In 1914, Cardinal Faulhaber^ declared that in effect God was German.”

Pope Plus X, in his hatred of the Orthodox Christians, was continually inciting Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary to “chastise the Serbians”. After Sarajevo, on 26 July 1914, Baron Ritter, Bavarian representative at the Holy See, wrote to his Government: “The Pope approves of Austria’s harsh treatment of Serbia. He has no great opinion of the armies of Russia and France in the event of a war against Germany. The Cardinal Secretary of State does not see when Austria could make war if she does not decide to do so now. . . .”

There, in true colours, is the Vicar of Christ, the gentle apostle of peace, the Holy Pontiff whom pious authors represent as having “died of sorrow at seeing the outbreak of war”.

Pope Pius X was succeeded by Benedict XV, “the ‘boche’ (a contemptuous term used to refer to a German, especially a German soldier in World War I or II.) Pope” (Pope 1914 to 1922). His attempts to prevent first Italy and then the United States from entering the war alongside the Allies, his intrigues intended to divide the AlUes, his note for a “stalemate” peace in 1917 (with the help of Mgr. Pacelli, Papal Nuncio in Munich) shocked even the French Catholics, whose patriotism was still alive. Of course, the “boche” Pope took good care not to condemn the violation of rights, the torpedoing of neutral ships, or any of the excesses committed by the German army.

In 1922, Pope Pius XI donned the tiara. The Papacy had lost the first war; it was about to prepare for the second. What was happening in Europe during the years between the two massacres?

In Italy, secret negotiations took place between papal agents and Mussolini, “the man of Providence”. The priest don Sturzo, Chief of the Catholic Group, had full rights voted to the Duce on 16 November 1922. Then came the Lateran Treaty, to seal the union of Fascism and the Papacy, the conquest of Ethiopia—blessed by the clergy—and, on Good Friday 1939, the aggression against Albania.

In Germany the Papal Nuncio in Berlin, Mgr. Pacelli, and Franz van Papen, Privy Chamberlain to the Pope, advocated a “union with Rome” and concentrated on the overthrow of the Weimar Republic. The German Catholics were hostile to Nazism, but were informed that the Pope himself was “favourably disposed towards Hitler”. Consequently, the Catholic Zentrum, axis of all the parliamentary majorities, voted full rights to Hitler on 30 January 1933. This operation was promptly followed, as in Italy, by the concluding of a concordat which was most advantageous to the Roman Church. The German Episcopate swore allegiance to the Fuhrer, and Catholic youth organizations combined with those of the Nazis. In 1935, the Saar voted its re-attachment to the Reich after a favourable electoral campaign by the Bishops of Trier and Speyer. Henceforth, the principal champion of the Papacy—the Germanic “secular arm” visibly gathered strength.

In Spain, the Virgin appeared here and there, and effigies of Christ shed tears. These were unmistakable signs—the Republic and its impious regime would not last long. On 31 March 1934 the Pact of Rome was signed, and pledged the support of Mussolini and Hitler for the rebellion. The “holy war” broke out. In 1937, in the midst of war, the Vatican gave de jure recognition to the Govemment of Franco, its sword-bearer, who was later to be decorated with the Supreme Order of Christ. “Blessed be the guns if the Gospel flowers in their wake!” Soon the Catholic Action was to spread its reign of tyranny across the ruined country. Fax Christi! In Belgium, once more it was the Catholic Action which, under the title of Christus-Rex, implanted a local Nazism and prepared the way for Hitler, the modern Messiah, who was soon to knock, a trifle roughly, at the door. Mgr. Picard, Canon Cardijn (later to be elevated to the rank of Monseigneur by Pope Pius XII) and their protege, the ineffable Leon Degrelle, applied themselves to this pious task.

In France, the spokesmen of Rome gave their blessing to the “strong” policies; the Deats, the Doriots, and the Bucards all aped the dictators. The fifth column was organized, and already Gustave Herve was crying: “Petain is the man for us!” In Austria (which was destined to be the Fuhrer’s first prey), the “Christian” chancellors succeeded one another, beginning with the Jesuit, Mgr. Seipel. Their reactionary politics were to end, in 1938, in the country’s being absorbed by Hitler’s Reich. The entire Austrian Episcopate, led by Cardinal Innitzer, declared its wholehearted support of the Anschluss. Thus eight million Austrians were to help to swell the ranks of German Catholics.

In Czechoslovakia also, the Roman Church was working for the Fuhrer by upholding the separatist Slovaks, at whose head was Mgr. Hlinka, with his “Guard” modelled on the Nazi S.A. Hitler annexed “Sudeten Germany”, dismembered the country, and created the satellite state of Slovakia, where a Catholic prelate, Mgr. Tiso, played the role of Gauleiter. He promised to organize this state “along Christian lines”, a policy which found its particular expression in the deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz.

Catholic Poland in its turn succumbed beneath the blows of the Fuhrer, without any protest from Pope Pius XII. Indeed, he tried to persuade France and England to accept a compromise peace that would recognize the amputation of Poland to the benefit of Germany. Here again, several more million Catholics would join the Reich, and so proportionately strengthen the position of Rome. War broke out. In an invaded France, Petain, the “saviour” who had long been held in reserve, was raised to power. Then came the “collaboration” with Hitler which was unrelentingly urged upon the faithful by the French Episcopate, led by Mgr. Suhard, Archbishop of Paris. These same bishops advocated enrolment in the LVF (Legion des Volontaires Francais). On 30 July 1941, Cardinal Baudrillart even declared, “Hitler’s war is a noble undertaking“.

In a dismembered Yugoslavia, the temporary victors were carving out the pseudo-independent state of Croatia. As in Slovakia, the Catholic clergy were well represented in Parliament. Under the watchful eyes of Mgr. Stepinac and the Pontifical Legate, Marcone, the Jews were being either deported or massacred, and the Orthodox Serbs and their clergy exterminated with an unparalleled refinement of cruelty, when they were not being “converted” by terror. Catholic priests and monks preached murder and even participated in it, and Ante Pavelitch, Chief of the Ustashis, was received in great pomp by Pope Pius XII.

In Russia, Hitler’s troops were advancing, and among the SS that followed them were the Jesuit converters.

In Poland, the “Wartheland” which was destined to become the territory for German colonization, was scientifically “cleared”. All Poles who opposed them and especially Jewish Poles, were exterminated; “genocide”, by shooting or by gassing, had begun. Meanwhile, the camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Belsen and others devoured their inmates, who had first been reduced to skeletons. Twenty-five million human beings (the official figure recorded by the UN) perished in these hells of slow death, without the Vicar of Christ ever having raised his voice. Not only that, but he sent no chaplains to these camps.

Then came the Peace!

Questioned later. Pope Plus XII was to say that he knew nothing of the German atrocities; as he doubtless knew nothing of those of Croatia and Slovakia; as—in 1933—when, as Mgr. Pacelli, he knew nothing of the pogroms, the ever-increasing assassinations in Germany, or the 40,000 persons already detained in forty-five camps by the Fuhrer, who had promised him that he would “muzzle the anti-clericals”.

But during the trials at Nuremberg, when these atrocities had been laid bare before the eyes of the whole world, by millions of testimonies, irrefutable documents, and films haunting in their horror, what did he do but fly to the aid of the guilty? He saved Franz von Papen, “the man who knew too much”, and with him some of the worst criminals—or, rather, some of the best workers for the “good cause”—those who must be saved for the future.

Likewise, he sheltered the fleeing murderers in his convents, and later sent them with false passports to safe asylums. Thus, thanks to him, the leader of the bloodthirsty Ustashis, Ante Pavelitch, “the man with twenty kilograms of human eyes”, the monster whom Pope Plus XII covered with good wishes and blessings during four years of massacre, was able to go to Argentina and peacefully enjoy the wealth that had been plundered from his victims!

There are laws for the punishment of those who conceal wrongdoers and help them to escape the investigations of the police, and, above all, there are laws to prevent the association of such wrongdoers and the preparation of crimes. But the Pope is above the Law.

This is implicitly recognized by Camille Cianfarra, who writes: “The prestige of the Sovereign Pontiff is so great that, should he ever commit any serious offences in the pursuit of a policy foredoomed to failure, he could nevertheless always count upon the undying devotion and loyalty of the clergy and of his flock.” In this book we shall expose the “serious offences” committed by the Papacy over a period of thirty years or so. They are so serious, indeed, that they have ended in the most appalling massacres and in the irreparable decline of Europe. So serious and so obvious were they that during the Italian electoral campaign of April 1948, Emilio Bonetti declared, “The Pope is a war criminal!”

How is it conceivable after this that the “undying devotion” of the clergy and of faithful Catholics should have remained unaffected? So far as the clergy were concerned, it is not inconceivable if one recalls that even in the seventeenth century, Nickel, the Jesuit General, wrote in his Instructions : “Let us forget our native land…. The Company cannot continue if the national spirit is not entirely uprooted.” But did the faithful also treat the interests of their country and the lives of their children so lightly, as soon as the Roman Curia thought fit to sacrifice them to its geopolitical plans? Was their “loyalty” towards the Sovereign Pontiff capable of overriding all natural sentiments, even to the extent of making them completely indifferent to atrocities so monstrous that they ought to have revolted—let us not say their Christian charity (that would be sarcastic)—but their ordinary humanity?

Must it be said that the flock refused to recognize, in all these calamities, the sempiternal stamp of Rome? Actually, it would be most interesting to know what can be opposed—other than idle words—to this mass of proofs which establishes its guilt, from the warlike incitements addressed to Francis Joseph, which were to start the first world war, to the shameless rescue of the criminals of the second. Can one deny the fact that first Mussolini, and then Hitler, were raised to power, by identical means, by don Sturzo and the Catholic Zentrum? Can one deny the enthusiastic adherence of the episcopates to the dictatorial regimes, the obstinate silence of the Pope at the time of the Fascist and Nazi aggressions; the attempts to reach “peace” in order to ensure the dictators possession of their plunder, the refusal to condemn the massacre of innocent populations, and the horrors of the death camps?

Furthermore, how is it possible to mistake the direct assistance which Pope Plus XII rendered in the perpetration of these atrocities, by “lending” certain of his prelates, to become pro-Nazi agents such as Mgr. Hlinka, and Gauleiters such as Mgr. Tiso; by sending his personal Nuncio to Croatia to supervise, with Mgr. Stepinac, the “work” of Ante Pavelitch and his Ustashis? For, wherever one looks, one sees the same “edifying” spectacle.

Yet the faithful were silent in the face of so many crimes. Is this not the most deadly of all the results of papal absolutism? To be sure, we know that His Holiness makes infallible ex cathedra declarations upon faith and morals by virtue of the direct communication which he maintains with the Paraclete—at least since 1870.

But the decrees that he fulminates under this lofty inspiration do not in principle cover political questions and all the more when such matters concern the very life of the country. A Catholic is not obliged in conscience—as far as we know, at least—to say a quiet “Amen” to machinations of the Vatican which are directed against his own country. This was obvious in 1917, as we shall have reason to recall. But times have changed. Since then, the biggest autocrat in the civilized world has been able to impose upon his flock a constraint so narrow, a domination so complete, as have been unparalleled since well before the deified Ceasars, since the days of the “oppressors of the peoples” of oriental antiquity. A curious fate indeed, for a religion that was to “liberate souls”!

A curious fate also, to find itself associated, through the will of its head, with the coldest brutality ever prompted by the vainglory of power or the furious appetite for it. This monstrous union has best been described by Mgr. Tiso, the prelate Gauleiter of Slovakia, to the shame of the Vatican: “Catholicism and Nazism have many points in common and they are working hand in hand to re-fashion the world.”

The formula is clearly defined, and it is difficult to see what the Roman Church’s worst enemy could add to it. So far as we are concerned, we shall add nothing to it in this book, unless it is to say that ever since 1914 the Holy Father has been working hand in hand with the Germans and their allies and that the Vatican’s share of responsibility—not only for the instigation of the wars of the twentieth century but also for the horrors that accompanied them—is overwhelming.

So much for the past, a past that is sadly burdened. The present is hardly any better, and ever since a precarious peace has once more returned to a Europe ruined by the “holy war” of Hitler, there have been all too many opportunities to observe the continuity of the Vatican’s policy as it will be exposed in this book, and as it has been manifested in recent years.

Once the murderers and torturers had been saved—in vast numbers—the Papacy resumed control over the Germanic “secular ami”, for the moment discomfited. Then came the great Catholic period of Fulda, and the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary by Pope Pius XII, of his “good Germany”, who— as this delicate gesture shows—in the eyes of His HoUness had in no way soiled the purity of her robe. “A thousand years will not suffice to blot out the shame of Germany!” exclaimed Hans Frank before the Tribunal at Nuremberg. Pope Pius XII is far more expeditious.

Then came the accession to power of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the Pope’s Privy Chamberlain, of whom Abbd Boulier has written: “Nothing has changed. The pious Adenauer has replaced Hitler, but he continues his policy, serving the same interests, and supported by the same allies. It is indeed the same battle of the same people against the same enemies”.

This in fact is to be seen in the return en masse of the most notorious Nazi personalities to the ministries and all executive positions generally, including those of the new army. No, nothing has changed, since the “pious Adenauer” was not afraid to declare at Cologne, “Germany has a divine mission to save western Europe”, words which, of course, have a famiUar ring. But something even more remarkable was to follow: the announcement of a forthcoming gathering, in Federal Germany, of the former SS and Waffen SS of Europe under the emblem of the “Brotherhood of Battle”.

Need we recall the determined policy of the Holy See intended to impose on France those famous “European” plans which in fact must inevitably reduce her to the status of a German vassal: the Common Market, Euratom—the latter taking over, in atomic matters, from the defunct European Defence Community ? We have shown in a previous booki0 the narrowness of the Unk which, in the mind of the geopoliticians of Rome, unites their efforts to “Europeanize” France, i.e., to subject her to Germany, and those which they exerted at Suez, in Morocco, in Tunisia, and now in Algeria, to bleed her to death and to reduce her to their mercy.

Previously, there had been the war of Indo-China, that disastrous adventure prolonged over eight years by the M.R.P. for reasons of financial interest and “in defence of the three bishoprics ofTonkin”, as Edouard Herriot said. The Roman Church, on this occasion, was not afraid to appear “colonialist” by savagely defending her interests, both spiritual and more particularly temporal, in that corner of Asia. It is true that it was bought with French blood, French gold and French prestige, and that the wasting of these assets was in no way displeasing to the tiara-wearing Machiavelh reigning in Rome.

In Dark Africa, in Madagascar, the same kind of activity was openly undertaken against France through the trickery of the clergy and the missionaries. None the less, people who are still unable to govern themselves are incited to rebellion without a thought being given to the anarchical disorder that will follow in the wake of a premature “independence”. Would the Church be counting upon replacing French protection by a “theocracy” of its own?”

We are doubtful whether the latter could be “implanted and adapt itself”, to use the terms dear to the geopoliticians of the Sacristy. It seems to us that, deprived of Western support, among these peoples who are naturally little inclined to the apostolic “doctrine” the Roman Church will experience some bitter disappointments. These peoples—young as they are—might in turn wish to know the meaning of Fax Christi, as did a certain other people (in this instance, of very ancient culture), as we are told by La Croix: “The Indians do not see the Papacy as a spiritual guide. In their mind, any link with the Papacy must mean that India will be drawn into foreign wars”.

It must be admitted that the Indians have penetrating minds. Will there come a time when the western peoples, returning to wisdom, will also examine the Vatican question, calmly, in the light of history? If so, they will then see, from a mere examination of the facts, the following: that the Roman Church, rapacious, warlike, stirring up conflicts, turning to her own benefit—with unfailing perfidy—the interests and passions of the world, far from fulfilling her mission of guardianship, has always been the worst sower of discord among the nations she claims to pacify and unite.

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