Nazi and Catholicism

Does anyone has an answer for this question?This question passed over my mind like do Catholics have relationship with the Nazi youth ?

eh ......i think i'll need more info than that?

how'd that thought occur to you? I don't see a connection really...

The closest links you would find are;

The current pope was, in his youth, a Nazi Youth partipator.
But nonetheless, that does not mean he supported the Nazi party, if he had refused participation, he could have been imprisoned or even executed.

Nazis where either Catholic or Christian, as a rule, I cannot remember.
Just because Nazi's where Catholic, it doesn't mean all catholics are Nazi.


Why would you ask?

Just sometimes, I do not have the right sense of the english language...I meant,if there are rumors that people of the Catholicism in Germany,like priests,have somekind of relationship with people who propagate others to the Nazism.

sorry dude,
i havn't heard anything about it.

actually you don't really hear anything about Nazi's these days.
though there are certainly still people who call themselves that at least.

Nazi leaders differed on details but most saw germanic paganism as a source of a new national pride and, of course,control. It was also a common refrain that Jesus was not jewish but a member of an arian enclave in isreal.

...Also Hitler was catholic and he was against abortion except for the mentally ill.

so there really is somekind of relationship,isn't it?

Hitler wanted to appeal to as many folk as possible and as Germany at the time was considered to be one of the most Christian of nations, he had to work towards a joining of the greater beliefs of the nation with his vision of a pan-Germanic nazi Christian church.

Does this work as a tradition from the Cathocism in nowdays?

f*** no. In the thirties Catholic youth leaders were killed and all Catholic youth groups absorbed by the Hitler youth. Though the church signed agreements with Hitler to protect their assets in Germany, those agreements were broken like most by Hitler.

The relationship was very one sided, the Nazi took catholic ideas to suit them Catholics don't necessarily have anything to do with Nazi's...

Hitler agreed with the church on some issues, but complete disagreed with the pacifist view. There were several different churches set up by the Nazi's many of which set about to replace Jesus with Hitler, or at least make Hitler a huge part of the religion. Hitler liked paganism hence the reason the German Faith Movement was set up. Basically Nazis were seen as the lesser of 2 evils (communism and nazism) therefore the church tolerated Hitler. Hitler needed the church because there was no way he could take the church down, and if he did then because catholicism is an international religion, he would make a great number on enemies rather quickly, which he wasn't ready to do.