NOTICE: The only Nazi ever excommunicated by the church of Rome, even after all the war crime tribunals was Joseph Gerbils. His crime? He married a Protestant,

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Roman Catholic bishops
saluting Hitler

Pope and Cardinlas
meeting with Hiler

Hitler greets Roman
Catholic Cardinal

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Roman Catholic Priests
giving the Hitler salute at a Catholic youth rally in the Berlin-Neukolln stadium in August 1933 

Hitler greeting Roman
Catholic Bishop

Roman  Catholic
Bishops giving the Nazi
salute in honor of Hitler

Hitler's Pope

The book cover
of "Hitler's Pope"
 

Hitler's Pope being
saluted by Nazi soldier

Pope Pius XII meeting
with German leaders
 

Pope Pius XII greets
Nazi soliders

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Ratzinger

Gott Mit Uns
(God With Us)
EM German Army belt
buckle (Stamped steel,
1937 pattern, made by
"R S & S" for Richard
Sieper & Sohne
Ludenscheid). Photo
from the German
Militaria Catalog. 

Cardinal Michael Faulhaber marches between rows of
SA men at a Nazi rally in
Munich. 

Page from the anti-Semitic
German children's book,
"Der Giftpilz" (The
Poisonous Mushroom) The
text reads, "When you see
a cross, then think of the
horrible murder by the Jews
on Golgotha..." 

Adolf Hitler (center) at
the monument for the war
dead in the small town of
Franken. According to Ray Cowdery, Hitler rarely
missed an opportunity to
visit war memorials, even
when a photographer was
not present. 

Church & state!
Hitler in front of "Church
of our Lady" in Nuremberg,
Sept. 1934. Photographer,
Heinrich Hoffmann.  

Hitler Greets a Roman
Catholic Cardinal  

Hitler leaves the Marine
Church in Wilhelmshaven. 

Hitler signs autograph
for a Catholic fan (a nun)

Hitler greets Müller the
"Bishop of the Reich"
and Abbot Schachleitner 

Although the German Iron
cross usually appears symmetrical, this particular
cross, by lengthening the
vertical member, emphasizes Catholicism.  

Church & state!
This Nazi coin, a 5 Mark, depicts the Potsdam
Garrison Church upon it.

Church & state!
Mementoes of German
solders before the
Catholic cross and Hitler's
Brown Army attending
a Roman Catholic Mass

Again we see a
"Church & State"
depiction with Hitler
and his army in front
of the "Church of
our Lady" in Nuremberg, Germany (circa 1928)

Hitler in "prayer"

Church & state!
Roman Catholic
Cardinal Egan on the
steps of St. Patricks
Cathedral in New York
City along side a
NYC Police officer
dressed as a Nazi
solider in full battle attire

Church & state!
Roman Catholic
Cardinal Egan on the
steps of St. Patricks
Cathedral in New York
City along side a
NYC Police officer
dressed as a Nazi
solider in full battle attire 

 
A young Joseph Ratzinger. Is he saluting? Or blessing? A "Holy hands lifted to Heaven" blessing is always palms up, not down as this picture depicts.