The Catholic Church as well as the Lutheran Church in Germany should give an account to their influence or lack of influence during the rise of Hitler. Please look at this link since a Catholic has tied Hitler together with Martin Luther.
liberalslikechrist.org/Catholic/Hitlersfaith.html
So long as Adolf Hitler was in power,
his Roman Catholic Church
never questioned his Catholicism
- at least not in public - which is
where it mattered politically.
A posed picture which Hitler himself used often
to show what a good “practicing Catholic” he was.
(see link)
Since your link didn’t provide any scholarly evidence for its article, here is what I have scrounged up:
CATHOLIC RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD REICH
DONALD J. DIETRICH
University of Wisconsin — Stevens Point
Scholars such as Guenter Lewy have established that the institutional Catholic Church capitulated to Nazism and traded moral leadership for institutional survival. The following study suggests that Catholic priests and laity resisted Nazism, for example, both by opposing racist antisemitism as morally wrong and by using such an approach as a vehicle for confronting totalitarianism. Ultimately, the regime’s documents themselves indicate that neither the Nazi state nor the Catholic Church were the monoliths that earlier scholarship portrayed.
hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co…stract/3/2/171
Here’s another book on google I found entitled “American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler: A Documentary History” that tells of the resistance of Christian Churches against Nazism.
books.google.ca/books?id=xoTW…hitler&f=false
**The Catholic Resistance Circle in Berlin and German Catholic Bishops during the Holocaust **
Michael Phayer
Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Catholic resistance group formed in Berlin after the violence of the “Night of Broken Glass” was perpetrated against Jews during the second week of November 1938. The Berlin circle helped Jews escape from Germany and assisted those who remained up to the time of their “transportation” and even afterwards.
This circle is especially notable because it attempted to influence the entire Catholic church to react and protest Nazi antisemitism. Through its contacts with Nazi bureaucrats and with other German resisters, the Berlin Catholics obtained accurate information on the Holocaust.
In the end, the Berlin circle succeeded in helping many Jews but failed to overcome opposition within the Catholic church against a public church protest regarding antisemitism.
hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co…stract/7/2/216
Take note that the last line of the abstract refers only opposition towards a “public” protest regarding anti-semitism. And also understand that thousands (over 3000 I believe) of priests and pastors were jailed, not including other religious, like St. Edith Stein who with her sister were gassed because the Catholic Church had the temerity to publicly defy Nazi rule in the Netherlands.
“However, Stein was not safe in the Netherlands—the Dutch Bishops’ Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the country on July 20, 1942, condemning Nazi racism. In a retaliatory response on July 26, 1942, the Reichskomissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts, who had previously been spared. Stein and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were captured and shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were gassed on August 9, 1942.[4]”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Stein
