Inside The Vatican Part 3

Pope Pius xii and Hitler

In our continuing study of the hidden history of The Vatican, we turn to the post World War 2 era and the flight of Nazi war criminals out of Europe.
Pictured above is Pope Pius xii, who’s staff witnessed the Pope funding the early rise of Hitler.
To frame this issue, we need to consider the political stance of the church at that time: the ongoing struggle against “atheistic communism”.
The natural alignment for the church was (as described in “Blowback”, by Christopher Simpson) the growing “clerical-Fascist political parties that were willing Nazi pawns during the war”.
Indeed, modern revision history attempts to suggest that the church actually hid some Jews during the rise of Nazism, but the official stance was that “It would be unreasonable in a Christian state to allow the Jews to participate in government”…”It is also legitimate to admit them to the universities and the liberal professions only on the basis of a fixed proportion”… “This policy, in practice led to Catholic political parties’ carrying out many of the preparatory steps for the Holocaust”… (Simpson, p178).
Before, during and after the war, many countries were not aligned with either the Allies or the Axis. Some, such as India and those of the middle east were leaning toward the Germans as the result of anti-British colonial sentiment. Others in South America (such as Peron’s Argentina) and elsewhere were outright admirers of Hitler.
After the war, there was a power-play between the Russians and western intelligence to bring talented Nazi spies and scientists into the fold. The Nazis were obviously motivated to save their own necks from war crimes trials. Additionally, huge financial resources were spirited out of Germany through “The Bormann Organization” which is popularly known as “The Odessa”.
The Vatican operated what intelligence called “Ratlines”, which first hid the most important Nazis within the church, and ratlined them to the middle east, South America, and yes, the United States.
As Argentine journalist Uki Goni describes in “The Real Odessa“,

 “Perhaps the clearest example of the Church’s central role was a letter drafted on 31 August by Bishop Alois Hudal to President Juan Peron, requesting 5,000 visas for German and Austrian soldiers’, probably the single largest such appeal made to the Argentine general. These were not refugees, Hudal explained, they were anti-communist fighters whose wartime “sacrifice” had saved Europe from Soviet domination. In other words, in Hudal’s shorthand, they were German and Austrian Nazis.”…
“Like other Nazi collaborators who later helped war criminals escape to Argentina, Hudal had attempted to reconcile Christianity with Hitlarism…
“Hudel”.. “concluded that Hitler was preparing for the consolidation of a Christian Europe”. (Goni, “The Real Odessa”, p230).
Again, from Simpson’s “Blowback”:
“The United States became ensnarled in Intermarium’slarge-scale underground railroads for Nazis when the CIC hired Croation Intermarium leader Monsignor Krunoslav Dragonovic to run special ratlines out of Europe for U.S.-sponsered intelligence assets that were too “hot” to have any official connection with the U.S. government.”
(Note- “Intermarium” was a lay-Catholic organization that obviously ran some of the “ratlines”,)

The most recognized Nazi War Criminals hidden in South America were Joseph Mengele, Adof Eichmann and Klaus Barbie.
The financial organization of Martin Bormann, also run from South America, will be discussed in a future article. The tentacles of the Bormann Organization exist today.

What we have to realize about this operation is that not all Nazis were Germans. Among those war criminals that were ratlined out of Europe, some of the worst came from the occupied countries of Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, and others. Many of the ones that made it to the United States actually became operatives in the Republican Party’s “Ethnic outreach program”, and were critically important in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. For more on that, see “Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party” by Russ Bellant.

The problem is, the Vatican Ratlines and other secret programs to bring Nazi war criminals out of Europe manifested itself in the rightward movement of  American foreign policy and global terrorism.
As Simpson closes his chapter on “ratlines”:

“..According to reports of FBI investigations, some cells have been responsable for an airplane hijacking, bombings, extortion, numerous murders, and the assassination of several Yugoslavian diplomats over the last two decades”.

The Nazis were remarcably adept at convincing the Americans that the Russians and the Cold War were a bigger threat than they actually were.
“In the final analysis, the cold war became the means for tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals to avoid responsibility for the murders they had committed.”

For more on the Vatican Ratlines see:

“Blowback, by Christopher Simpson and
“The Real Odessa“, by Uki Goni

For an overview on how Nazis made it into high-levels of the Republican Party, see “Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party” by Russ Bellant

See “Inside The Vatican Part 1” here

See Part 2 here

Ratline

Tags: Argentina Nazis, Bormann, Catholic Church, Eichmann, Juan Peron, Klaus Barbie, Nazis, Vatican Ratlines

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