Michael Hesemann

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HAS POPE PIUS XII. Silent to the Holocaust?

By Dr. H.C. Michael Hesemann

As PIUS XII. (1939-1958) on 9. October 1958, in castel gandolfo, the world agreed: it was one of the very great of the 20. th century, the man who, like the Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir In her obituary, " when our people suffered a terrible martyrdom in the decade of the naziterrors... (His voice raised) to condemn the executioner and to express compassion for the victims." many other representatives of Judaism agreed You guys. "Santo Subito", did not require a few Catholics. But it just took five years, so the leaf turned. The Communist Theatre Erwin Piscator had just returned to Berlin with Bergen of money from Moscow, opened the free volksbühne and led the thoroughly revised piece of a completely unknown young playwright and former editor named Rolf High. "the deputy" imputed the pope moral days. He would have been silent about the holocaust because the Jews did not interested him, and he sat on Hitler as a " Bulwark against communism Only a few years ago, the then romanian intelligence general mihau pacepa revealed that "the deputy" was a KGB OF THE KGB to discredit the-of the before church once and for all.

The New Pope Paul vi immediately responded to the replacement of one of the closest employees of PIUS XII. In the war. He opened not only the beatification process for his great role model (2009 by the promulgation of "Heroic virtue" by Benedict XVI. At the end of the year, four historians of the jesuitenuniversität were also able to publish all relevant documents from the Vatican archives in a elfbändigen, almost 8000 pages of strong scientific edition. Unfortunately, this was almost completely ignored by the scientific world.

After I was able to research in the Vatican curiosity since 2008, took insight into the blessed documents and spoke with dozens of eyewitnesses, I believe as one of very few historians a fairly complete picture of events from 1939 to 1945 And to answer the question of the " silence of the pope

Of course, POPE PIUS XII. Didn't keep silent. It addressed it in three public speeches, namely on 1. August 1941, on 24. December 1942 and on 2. June 1943 In the first speech that the Vatican Archivist Dr. Johan Ickx only published this year, the pope called " the treatment that the Jews suffer " a " great scandal " against which he explicitly protested: " in Germany, the Jews are murdered and brutally abused... how can In his second speech on Christmas 1942, he confirmed the allied declaration of the previous week that " hundreds of thousands, without their own guilt, sometimes because of their ethnicity and race, are doomed... ." he confirmed that on June 2., 1943, when he spoke of " those " who were tortured because of their nationality or because of their race of greater corruption and heavier pain and sometimes even, without their own fault, to eradicate With these three explanations, the Pope was three times more likely to be the "final solution", when the allies did it in their declaration of 17. December 1942, even after their planes in summer 1944 Even aerial photographs of the todesfabrik Auschwitz and smoking crematoria were shooting, confirming the reports of escaped concentration camp inmates.

Only the question remains why he did not speak more clearly. The reasons are two. On the one hand, information from the German occupied territories was extremely vague - only after the war, the nuremberg processes revealed the whole extent of Nazi crimes. Until then, there were plenty of rumors, but no tangible evidence that could secure an indictment. The Pope's second stand since 1939 in close contact with the German military opposition, which until may 1940 and then again from January 1943 and the first defeats in el alamein and stalingrad - with papal blessing as "Tyrannicide" Legitimacy - an assassination of Hitler and a regierungsumsturz. In this case, the Pope would have guaranteed the coup and gave a peace with the allies. Until then, the conspirators begged him not to provoke hitler unnecessarily and not to appear biased, which he would have disqualified as a peacemaker at least with the German population. Above all, the experience had shown that the Nazis reacted only to a tightening of measures in protest from abroad. That was after the encyclical PIUS XI. "with burning concern" the case when the Vatican protested against the brutal attacks on the polish civilian population, that was the case when the Dutch Bishops condemned the deportation of Jews. The Jews considered the Nazis as the " nemesis ", any support would have served them as a pretext for assault on the Catholic Church, which was so urgently needed as " Hillman " and designer of a post-War Germany. Between September 1943 and June 1944, Rome was also occupied by the Nazis, had given hitler orders to invade the Vatican immediately and to deport or shoot the Pope when he was open to the Jews. His own life was PIUS XII. Indifferent, but he did not want to buy the praise of posterity with the blood of innocent Catholics and countless other Jews who would undoubtedly have fallen victim to Hitler's retaliation.

The Pope would prefer to protest, instead of saying useless (and even counterproductive). With a total of 40 official diplomatic interventions, he tried to stop or at least postpone the deportations in Germany, as in Hitler's Vassal, to sprinkle sand into the wheels of the reinhard. In some cases he was successful. Mussolini Italy (until July 1943), Bulgaria and Romania renounced the extradition of Jews to the ss henchmen, in Hungary, Croatia and Slovakia, the deportations were often suspended for months after a vatican démarche. At the same time, tens of thousands of Jews were provided with false id and taufscheinen, hidden in monasteries or smuggled out of the German control to find a new home in overseas and Palestine. All 960.000 Jews, as I am in my book " The Pope and the holocaust owe this strategy their lives. So it was a "wise silence" after the summer of 1943 when a sword of Damocles was hung over the papacy after the fall of Mussolini. PIUS XII. Thought it was silver, but it was gold. And that the highest priority had to be to save human lives.

Michael Hesemann: "The Pope and the holocaust" (448 s., EUR 28,--) appears today in the publisher long-Müller.

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Faustina Kowa Karmelićani - Split

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Srijeda je dan posvećen sv. Josipu.

I neki drugi sveci imaju svoj dan. Tako je dan Blažene Djevice Marije subota, a sv. Antuna Padovanskog utorak.

Postoje relikvije sv. Josipa, čije podrijetlo međutim, nije dokumentirano. Ne radi se o dijelovima tijela, nego samo o predmetima, koje je koristio sv. Josip. U talijanskom gradu Peruggi od 1477. godine, nalazi se vjenčani prsten svetog Josipa. Prethodno je bio u talijanskom gradu Chiusiju, kamo je donešen iz Jeruzalema u 11. stoljeću.

U Francuskoj, u gradu Joinville-sur-Marne čuva se pojas svetog Josipa, dok se u Aachenu u Njemačkoj, u riznici Karla Velikog, čuvaju zavoji koje je kao čarape sv. Josip zamatao Djetetu Isusu.

U talijanskom samostanu Camaldoli u okolici grada Arezza nalazi se štap sv. Josipa. Prethodno je bio u turskom gradu Izmiru.

Najgorljiviji štovatelji sv. Josipa su redovnici karmelićani i sestre karmelićanke. Sveta Terezija Avilska nazivala je sv. Josipa svojim ocem i gospodarom. Posvetila mu je trinaest karmelićanskih samostana, koje je sama osnovala njemu u čast. Svakoga je poticala, da se s pouzdanjem utekne njegovoj zaštiti i stavi se pod njegovo pokroviteljstvo. Zapisala je izvanredne milosti, za koje je imala zahvaliti njegovom zagovoru.

Sv. Terezija Avilska o sv. Josipu:

„Ne sijećam se da sam do sada nešto zamolila, a da mi on to ne bi izmolio. Čini se da nam Gospodin želi pokazati da kao što mu je bio podložan na zemlji, jer mu je bio hranitelj i zvao ga je ocem, tako mu ni na nebu ne može odbiti ono što ga zamoli. Ja sam njegov blagdan nastojala slaviti što sam svečanije mogla. Rado bih nagovorila svakoga da bude pobožan prema ovome slavnome svecu, jer znam iz velikog iskustva, da se po njegovom zagovoru dobiju mnogi darovi od Boga. Nisam upoznala nikoga tko bi prema njemu zaista bio pobožan i posebno mu služio, a da ne bih opazila napredak te osobe u kreposti. Ima, mislim, već nekoliko godina da ga svaku puta na njegov blagdan nešto zamolim i uvijek mi to izmoli. Ako je prošnja u čemu neprikladna, on je ispravi za veće moje dobro. Samo za ljubav Božju molim onoga koji mi ne vjeruje neka kuša, pa će iskusiti milosti ako se preporuči slavnom sv. Josipu i pobožno ga štuje. Tko ne nađe učitelja da ga nauči unutarnjoj molitvi, neka uzme za učitelja ovog slavnog sveca, pa neće zalutati s puta.

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"Sub tuum praesidium" - Pod Tvoju se obranu utječemo -

Ovo je najstarija marijanska molitva, nastala u 3. stoljeću i vrlo brzo se proširila po cijelom svijetu.

"Pod Tvoju se obranu utječemo, sveta Bogorodice.

Ne odbij nam molbe u potrebama našim,

nego nas od svih pogibli vazda oslobodi,

Djevice slavna i blagoslovljena."

I ne zaboravimo poziv pape Franje na svakodnevnu molitvu Krunice, završavajući je antifonom "Pod Tvoju se obranu utječemo" i molitvom svetom Mihaelu arkanđelu, kako bi odbili napade đavla koji želi podijeliti Crkvu.

Neka nas sve dobri Bog čuva! I sačuva!

Faustina Kowa "Napiši: Ja sam Triput Svet i ogavan mi je i najmanji grijeh. Ne mogu ljubiti dušu u kojoj plamti grijeh, ali kad se pokaje, nema granica mojoj velikodušnosti. Moje milosrđe grli i opravdava. Svojim milosrđem pratim grješnike na svim njihovim putovima i moje srce se raduje kad se obrate k meni. Zaboravljam gorčinu kojom su napajali moje srce i radujem se njihovu povratku. Reci grješnicima da nijedan neće izmaknuti mojoj ruci. Ako pobjegnu od moga milosrdnog srca upast će u moje pravedne ruke. Reci grješnicima da ih čekam, osluškujem otkucaje njihova srca koje kuca za mene. Napiši da im prigovaram u savjesti, kroz neuspjehe i patnje, bure i oluje, progovaram po glasu Crkve, a ako izigraju sve moje milosti počnem se ljutiti na njih, prepuštajući ih njima samima i dajući im što žele." Isus sv. Faustini

(Dnevnik, 1728)