Red Cross and the Vatican 'helped thousands of Nazis escape'

[Tsuwano]

The post-war trials and executions aren’t exactly a shining part of history. The Soviets, Chinese, French, Americans, and Commonwealth leaders killed a whole lot of people. Some instances were high-profile kangaroo courts against Nazi leaders. Other instances involved people never making it to trial, being summarily shot or tossed into Displaced Persons camps to be killed by mobs. There was no real accountability or valid jurisprudence in place to ensure the rights of the accused.

Plenty of people of good conscience from the winning side of the war objected to the institution of “victor’s justice” that violated all previous international standards of jurisprudence, men like U.S. Senator Robert Taft. The fact that they tried to get Oscar Schindler and could have easily have hanged him for slave-labor and munitions production should show us that these reservations were prudent.

There’s no moral obligation to hand over suspects to a quasi-legal-system that appeared focused on nothing but violent revenge, no matter how much one loathes the accused.

• Marty Lund

Which “quasi-legal system that appeared focused on nothing but violent revenge” are you refering to?

 

[GraceSofia]

The last sentence of the Telegraph story is a big, fat lie: “The Vatican has always refused to comment on its wartime activities and has kept its archive closed to the public.” NOT.
Vatican records from World War II era now online

The Holy See announced today that documents that had only been available in hard-copy in libraries are now available online through the Vatican’s website. The new records “represent a documentary resource of inestimable value that is now at the disposal of scholars and all interested persons,” the Vatican said.
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Access to the resources is free of charge.
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The texts can be accessed at www.vatican.va, the official website of the Holy See…

hmh.org/la_Blessing_Research.shtml

Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust 1939-1945, by John F. Morley
Ktav Publishing House 1989
This book uses Vatican diplomatic records to ascertain the instructions and orders given from the Vatican to its representatives in various European capitals. In addition to Vatican records…

Etcetera…

 

[GraceSofia]

When bashing the Church, any stick will do.

Especially when there are books to be sold.

Absolutely.

I notice the article says the Red Cross helped over 8,000 SS men escape.“By mistake” of course-- always willing to give everybody except the Church the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder if he has a credible number of people the Church helped, and if so, why is it not included in the article. Perhaps it’s not a very impressive number.

Anyway, these sorts of lies are always going round the media, the internet, the society and it is good to learn a bit about the issues.

This is a good article written by a rabbi. In the article he says a book really needs to be written about the topic, and he did in fact publish a book a few years later.

A Righteous Gentile: Pope Pius XII and the Jews

I recommend reading this book, and having it around, especially if you have children and teenagers who will be constantly hearing these attacks on the Church.

Seven Lies about Catholic History