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Yesterday
Pope Silent on Killing Jews, Today
Olmsted
Silent on Arpaio Persecuting Hispanics
PHOENIX (By
Jon
Garrido, The Jon Garrido Network)
January 10, 2010 —
Pope Pius XII born Eugenio Maria
Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli reigned as the
260th pope, the leader of the Roman
Catholic Church beginning March 2, 1939
and throughout WW II.
On
September 1, 1939, Nazi leader Adolph
Hitler ordered his German army to invade
Poland beginning World War II.
The Nazis systematically killed an
estimated six million Jews during WW II.
Adolph Hitler's Nazi paramilitary
campaign to remove Jews from Germany
used methods of extreme brutality known
as the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was carried out by German
Nazi paramilitary forces. As the war
started, millions of Jews were
concentrated into closed Ghettos. By
1941, large massacres of Jews had taken
place, and, by December 1941, Hitler
decided to completely exterminate
European Jews.
In January 1942, Nazi leaders began the
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question."
The German Nazi Gestapo in conjunction
with the Nazi paramilitary began to
systematically deport Jewish populations
from ghettos and all occupied
territories to Nazi extermination camps.
Hitler from December 1941 accepted
failure of his goal to dominate Europe
forever on his declaration of war
against the United States, but Hitler's
withdrawal and apparent calm thereafter
was sustained by the achievement of his
second goal — total extermination of the
Jews.
Even as the Nazi war machine faltered in
the last years of the war, precious
military resources such as fuel,
transport, munitions, soldiers and
industrial resources were still being
heavily diverted away from the war
towards the death camps.
Poland, home of the largest Jewish
community in the world before the war,
had over 90% of its Jewish population
killed, about 3,000,000 Jews. The
penalty imposed by Germans for hiding
Jews was death and this was carried out
mercilessly. In spite of this, some
Poles hid Jewish children and families
and saved their lives at risk to their
own families.
Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Lithuania,
Bohemia, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and
Latvia each had over 70% of their Jewish
population destroyed. Belgium, Romania,
Luxembourg, Norway, and Estonia lost
half of their Jewish population, the
Soviet Union over one third of its Jews,
and even countries such as France and
Italy had around a quarter of their
Jewish population killed.
Denmark was able to evacuate almost all
of the Jews in their country to nearby
Sweden, which was neutral during the
war. Using everything from fishing boats
to private yachts, the Danes whisked the
Danish Jews out of harm's way.
In all, more than 60% of the Jews in
Europe were murdered in the Holocaust.
The world's Jewish population was
reduced by a third, from roughly 16.6
million in 1939 to about 11 million in
1946.
Even sixty years later, there are
still fewer Jews in the world today than
there were prior to 1940.
Pope silent during Holocaust
massacre
During the
Holocaust massacre of six million Jews,
Pope Pius XII, leader of the world's
Catholics, remained behind the walls of
the Vatican and remained silent.
Pope Pius XII's
leadership of the Catholic Church during
World War II remains the subject of
continued historical controversy.
No one knows for sure the motives behind
Pope Pius XII's silence. Historians
offer many reasons why Pope Pius XII was
not an advocate for the Jews.
Whatever
his motivation, it is hard to escape the
conclusion the Pope, like so many others
in positions of power and influence, was
silent on the extermination of the Jews
because Pope Pius XII has been accused
as co-conspirator with Adolph Hitler on
exterminating the Jews.
Pope Pius XII was the ideal Pope for
Hitler's unspeakable plan. His
denial and minimization of the Holocaust
were all the more scandalous.
Vatican
files reveal a shocking indictment of
World War II's Pope Plus XII: that in
pursuit of absolute power he helped
Adolf Hitler destroy German Catholic
political opposition, betrayed the Jews
of Europe, and sealed a deeply cynical
pact with 20th-century devil Adolph
Hitler.
Bishop silent as migrants rounded up
Pope Pius XII's silence on the
extermination of the Jews is used to
draw a parallel with Bishop Olmsted of
the Diocese of Phoenix who abuses his
office by hiding behind the walls of the
Phoenix diocesan center and willfully
and flagrantly abusing his charge given
by Jesus to Peter to shepherd the
Phoenix Hispanic flock entrusted to his
care.
This is Déjà Vu as Pope Pius XII was
silent when the Jews were rounded up and
exterminated, Bishop Olmsted is also
silent as Hispanics are rounded up for
deportation resulting from Napolitano,
Pearce, and Arpaio immigration raids.
As
Pope Pius XII was the ideal Pope for
Hitler's unspeakable plan. Bishop
Olmsted is the ideal Bishop of the
Catholic Diocese of Phoenix for his
denial and minimization of the
persecution of Phoenix Hispanics are all the more scandalous.
When I was a U.S. soldier in Europe, to
prepare for a visit to the Dachau Nazi
German concentration camp, the first one
opened in Germany, I read The Rise and
Fall of the Third Reich by William L.
Shirer, the first definitive history of
Nazi Germany in English.
This 1,245 page book was the first book
to present a comprehensive synthesis of
the Nazi era. Shirer argued German
history proceeded logically from "Luther
to Hitler," seeing Hitler's rise to
power as an expression of German
character, rather than of the
international phenomenon of
totalitarianism.
Shirer encapsulated
this view with the passage, "...the
course of German history... made blind
obedience to temporal rulers the highest
virtue of Germanic man and put a premium
on servility."
Adolph Hitler maneuvered Germany toward
acceptance of a Nazi totalitarian
fascist nation manipulating Germans by
promoting and instilling intense hatred
of the Jews.
I personally saw the ovens pictured here
and as gruesome as this memory is, the
memory etched in my mind is of the
tombstone at the entrance to Dachau that
reads: Here lay the graves of six
million Jews.
Six million Jewish people were killed by
gas and burned in ovens.
Killed because
of the profound hatred for the Jews
caused by blaming Jews for everything
wrong with Germany.
Today, the same process is in play as it
was in Nazi Germany, only the names have
changed.
Today, the Nazi fascist extermination
model is alive in America and is used by
Lou Dobbs, Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas,
Russell Pearce and Janet Napolitano who
thrive on dehumanizing and demonizing
undocumented immigrants and blaming the
demise of America on Hispanics.
With Hitler it was blame the Jews. Today
in America, it is blame the Hispanics.
Blame the migrants. Take away the
American nationality of "anchor babies."
Hitler, Gobal, Herring, have become
Dobbs, Arpaio, Olmsted, Thomas, Pearce,
Napolitano and let us not forget Gordon
endorsed Thomas.
To be silent is to condone. Olmsted's silence gives tacit approval to Arpaio's tyranny against Hispanics. Olmsted Needs to be Fired!
Jon Garrido
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