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24-12-2009
Pius XII de Ustachapaus en de financiering van Medjugorje door gestolen goud geleverd door o.a. broeder Satan
We willen op deze vredevolle kerstdag aankondigen dat we de volgende dagen wat dieper zullen ingaan op de strapatsen van Pius XII als de ustacha-paus die van joden, zigeuners en serviërs gestolen goud en juwelen heeft aangenomen in de Bank van het Vaticaan, die eveneens er voor gezorgd heeft dat de ergste Croatische oorlogsmidadigers zijn kunnen vluchten en nooit werden berecht ondanks het feit dat sommigen nog onmenselijker zijn geweest dan de nazibeulen. We leggen jullie ook uit wie broeder Satan was en op welke manier een populair bedevaartsoord als
Medjugorje wordt gefinancierd. We zullen jullie ook leren dat franciscanen als beesten zijn tekeer gegaan tegen Joden, Zigeuners en Serviêrs
Zoals beloofd gaan we vandaag een amateuristische poging wagen om
wat meer te weten te komen over de rol die Pius XII heeft gespeeld
tijdens WO II en zijn houding tov de nazis. We zouden kunnen verwijzen
naar de bijdragen die Hugo Van Minnebruggen heeft gepubliceerd op het
door ons al meermaals in positieve zin geciteerde www.verzet. Maar zijn
bijdragen, net zoals de man zelf zijn erg gecontesteerd. We begrijpen
ook niet goed dat een verder zo uitstekend gedocumenteerde site als
Verzet dergelijke bijdragen publiceert. alleen al de door Van
Minnebruggen gehanteerde bronvermeldingen zou toch al enige argwaan
moeten opwekken. Maar jullie mogen gerust zelf lezen en het klinkt
allemaal wel erg links en erg anti-katholiek maar heeft volgens onze
bescheiden mening weinig te maken met de realiteit. Net zoals Van
Minnebruggen zijn eigenaardige meningen over Israël en Gaza...maar dat
moeten jullie maar zelf uitzoekn want daarmee wijken we te ver af. Lees dus zelf zijn schrijfsels maar op: http://www.verzet.org/content/view/451/29/1/0/ hier vinden jullie de klassieke linkse versie en hun visie op Pius XII
Wij
zullen ons niet amuseren om dat allemaal systematsisch te weerlegg en
we kennen maar al te goed de rol die sommige, zelfs vele, geestelijken
hebben gespeeld in onder andere de recrutering van idealististische
anti-kommunistische jongeren als kanonnenvlees voor het Oostfront.
Geschiften als Cyriel Verschaeve waren er wel meer!
Maar hiermee
is niet bewezen dat de kerk als dusdanig en de paus meeheulden met
Hitler en zijn bende. Hiermee is zeker niet bewezen dat de kerk de
holocaust zou hebben goedgekeurd, al of niet stilzwijgend. Het lijkt
ons ook duidelijk dat niks zeggen en niks doen in die periode synoniem
is met meeheulen met de nazis. Zeker voor een morele instantie die de
katholieke kerk toch steeds beweert te zijn. We kunnen wel begrip
opbrengen voor enige voorzichtigheid vanwege een instituut dat toch al
2000 jaar ervaring met moeilijke politieke situaties achter de kiezen
had en het steeds weer heeft overleefd. Laten we ook niet uit het oog
verliezen dat Pius XII paus werd in 1939 en dus niet moet afgerekend
worden op eerdere jaren...
En bij wie kunnen we dan beter te rade gaan als bij joodse bronnen?
Pope
Benedict's recent visit to Auschwitz helped rekindle the controversy
over the actions of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. Although some Jewish leaders and Catholic writers often condemn Pius XII today, the wartime Jewish press had a favorable opinion of the pope.
In
March 1939, many Jewish newspapers in the United States, Canada, Great
Britain, and Jerusalem welcomed Pope Pius's election and described him
as a friend of democracy. In an editorial (March 6, 1939), The Palestine Post, the predecessor of The Jerusalem Post,
observed, "Pius XII has clearly shown that he intends to carry on [Pius
XI's] work for freedom and peace...we remember that he must have had a
large part to play in the recent opposition to pernicious race theories
and certain aspects of totalitarianism..."
On October 27, 1939, the pope's first encyclical, "Summi Pontificatus," was made public. The American Israelite
in Cincinnati (November 9, 1939) asserted that the encyclical "contains
a ringing denunciation of all forces which put the state above the will
of the people, a condemnation of dictators and disseminators of racism
who have plunged the world into chaos."
On January 26, 1940, the Jewish Advocate in Boston
reported, "The Vatican radio this week broadcast an outspoken
denunciation of German atrocities and persecution in Nazi [occupied]
Poland, declaring they affronted the moral conscience of mankind."
This broadcast graphically described atrocities
against Jews and Catholics and gave independent confirmation to reports
about Nazi atrocities, which the Reich previously dismissed as Allied
propaganda.
On March 14, 1940, London's Jewish Chronicle commented on Pius's five conditions for a "just and honorable peace," which he articulated in his 1939 Christmas message. The Jewish Chronicle described the pope's
conditions, especially the protection of all racial minorities, as a
"welcome feature," and praised him for fighting "for the rights of the
common man."
In
the same month, Italy's anti-Semitic laws went into effect, and many
Jews were dismissed from the government, universities, and other
professions. Pius XII responded by appointing several displaced Jewish
scholars to posts in the Vatican library. In aneditorial, the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle (March 29, 1940), concluded that the pope's actions showed "his disapproval of the dastardly anti-Semitic decrees."
ON AUGUST 28, 1942, the California Jewish Voice hailed
Pius XII as a "spiritual ally" of Jews after noting that the Vatican,
through its diplomatic representatives, protested the deportations of
Jews from France and Slovakia.
On April 16, 1943, the Australian Jewish News published
a brief article about Pierre Cardinal Gerlier of Lyon, France who
protested the deportations of French Jews. The newspaper quoted the
cardinal as saying that he was obeying Pius XII's orders by opposing
the Vichy regime's anti-Semitic measures.
On October 17, 1943, the Nazis began to arrest Jews in Rome. On October 29, 1943, the Jewish Chronicle
wrote, "The Vatican has made strong representations to the German
Government and the German High Command in Italy against the
persecutions of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Italy..."
Along with the Vatican's protests, thousands of Jews found refuge in Rome's convents, monasteries, and the Vatican itself.
In June 1944, the Allies liberated Rome, and Pius XII protested
the deportations of Hungarian Jews. "With Rome liberated, it has been
determined, indeed, that 7,000 of Italy's 40,000 Jews owe their lives
to the Vatican," the American Israelite (July 27, 1944) editorialized. "Placing these golden deeds alongside the intercession of Pope
Pius XII with the Regent of Hungary in behalf in behalf of the
Hungarian Jews, we feel an immense degree of gratitude toward ourCatholic brethren."
On October 8, 1958, Pope Pius XII died. Many Jewish newspapers
around the world eulogized him, recalling his wartime opposition to
Nazism and role in saving Jews. In aneditorial (October 10, 1958), The Jerusalem Post
stated that "Jews will recall the sympathetic references to their
sufferings contained in many of his pronouncements, the refuge from
Nazi terror which he gave to many in the Vatican during the last war,
and the very cordial way he received his Jewish visitors."
In his article for the Jewish Post (November 6, 1958) in
Winnipeg, Canada, William Zukerman wrote that no other leader "did more
to help the Jews in their hour of greatest tragedy, during the Nazi
occupation of Europe, than the latepope."
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Jewish editors and reporters
had no fears about condemning Father Charles Coughlin, the anti-Semitic
radio broadcaster, andCatholic youth gangs in the Bronx and Boston who frequently assaulted Jews.
This much is clear: the contemporary Jewish press repeatedly have Pius XII favorable coverage from 1939 to 1958.
The writer, based in New York City, is working on a book about Pope Pius XII.
Dat is dus een gans ander geluid...en verder vinden we eveneens een joodse getuigenis:
The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, by Rabbi David G. Dalin
Hal G.P. Colebatch
Rabbi
David Dalin, a professor of history and political science, and the
splendid Regnery publishing house, have done a great service in
producing this book. Meticulously detailed, it completely destroys the
myth that Pope Pius XII was pro-Nazi or did less than his utmost to
save Jews from the Nazis, and pays tribute to what he actually did. Its
wealth of information, much previously unknown, has been praised by
commentators like Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at
Harvard University, who has said:
David Dalins search for the truth about Pope Pius XII led him to
the discovery that the tragedy of the Jewish people has been
shamelessly exploited by foes of traditional religion. With righteous
indignation, Dalin sets the record straight, documenting the dishonesty
of Piuss leading attackers and demonstrating that the wartime Pope was
a friend and protector of the Jewish people in their hour of greatest
need.
Rabbi Dalin commences with the words:
It is ironic that sixty years after the Holocaustwith
anti-Semitism virulent among Islamic fundamentalists and growing
rapidly among secular Europeansthat the left-liberal media in the West
has tried to blame Pope Pius XII (and even the Catholic church as a
whole) for anti-Semitism.
No-one believed this at the time. From the end of World War II until
at least five years after his death in 1958, Pope Pius XII enjoyed an
enviable reputation among Christians and Jews alike
He points how the campaign of vilification against the Pope began
with the play The Deputy, by German Rolf Hochhuth (later a close friend
and defender of David Irving, and the subject of a limerick in Robert
Conquests The Abomination of Moab), and made into a Hollywood film,
Amen, in 2002.
Rabbi Dalin is also scathing of the book Hitlers Pope, by John
Cornwell, pointing out that even the cover photograph (approved by
Cornwell) is viciously dishonest in its inference: it shows the future
Pope Pius XII, then Cardinal Pacelli, a Vatican diplomat, leaving a
reception in Germany given by the pre-Hitler President Paul von
Hindenburg, in 1927, six years before Hitler came to power. He is
dressed in Vatican diplomatic regalia, which could easily be confused
with Papal garments, and is being saluted by two German soldiers in
distinctive German steel helmets. It is not possible to see the
uniforms and insignia of the soldiers clearly, and though they were
actually soldiers of the Weimar Republic they could be taken for
soldiers of the Third Reich. Dalin quotes the historian Philip Jenkins:
The casual reader is meant to infer that Pacelli is emerging from a
cosy tete-a-tete with Hitlerperhaps they have been chatting together
about plans for a new extermination camp? Perhaps photographs do not
lie, but this particular book coveroffered in the context it was, and
under the title Hitlers Popecomes close.
(The picture can be seen at John Cornwells Wikipedia entry.) To
compound this, the caption on the English edition claims the photograph
was taken in Berlin in 1939, when Hitler was in powera falsehood
without any qualification whatsoever. Rabbi Dalins dissection of both
these works leaves them without a shred of credibility. The film Amen
is also totally false, presenting as fact incidents which never
happenedanyway it was a box-office failure. Dalin documents how the
left-liberal media has been quick to publicise, generally uncritically,
the myth of Hitlers Pope, but has generally denied even mentioning
the scholarly works written in the Popes defence.
In fact the Pope never met Hitler, and when Hitler visited Rome in
1938, Pius very publicly snubbed the Nazis by leaving for Castel
Gandolfo.
Rabbi Dalin has collected many eyewitness accounts of how Pope Pius
XII and the Vatican were directly responsible for sheltering thousands
of Jews in the Vatican and in church properties in and about Rome, as
well as 3000 in Castel Gandolfo. As a result about 85 per cent of
Romes Jews were saved from deportation and murder. This was despite
the fact that Rome was first under the Italian Fascist regime, and then
Nazi military occupation, making the Pope in the Vatican a virtual
prisoner (though some of the German officers appear to have given
clandestine help and warnings). In the case of Slovakia alone, the
Popes moral pressure on the government was, according to the French
Jewish scholar Leon Poliakov, directly instrumental in saving about
20,000 Slovakian Jews.
Thus while the Pope denounced and worked against Nazism, he was in a
hideously difficult position in that more outspoken activity could lead
to greater reprisals against the innocent. I was surprised that Rabbi
Dalin did not quote the case of Edith Stein, though this was very much
to the point: Edith Stein (now canonised) was a Jewish-born convert, a
Carmelite nun and an outstanding philosopher and theologian. During the
Nazi occupation of Holland she was in a Dutch convent. The Dutch
Bishops Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of
the country on July 20, 1942, condemning Nazi racism. In a retaliatory
response on July 26, 1942, the Reichskommissar of the Netherlands,
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish-born converts to
Catholicism, who had previously been spared. Stein and her sister Rosa,
also a convert, were captured and shipped to Auschwitz, where they died
in the gas chambers a few days later.
The Popes anti-Nazi statements and activities, up to the very limit
that he could press them, are a matter of record. These included the
encyclical Summi Pontificatus, issued shortly after the outbreak of
war, and a number of homilies, and he gave bishops instructions to help
all victims of Nazism. Early in the war he stated that the Nazi
atrocities in Poland affronted the moral conscience of mankind, leading
the New York Times to declare: now the Vatican has spoken with
authority that cannot be questioned, and has confirmed the worst
intimations of terror that have come out of the Polish darkness. In
Britain the Manchester Guardian called Vatican Radio tortured Polands
most powerful advocate. In 1940 Albert Einstein, a Jewish refugee from
Nazism, said: Only the Catholic church stood squarely across the path
of Hitlers campaign I now praise [it] unreservedly. On July 3,
1943, Judge Joseph Proskauer, president of the American Jewish
Committee, declared:
We have heard what a great part the Holy Father has played in the
salvation of the Jewish refugees in Italy, and we know from sources
that must be credited that this great Pope has reached forth his mighty
and sheltering hand to help the oppressed of Hungary.
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, stated: No keener rebuke has come to Nazism than
from Pope Pius XI and his successor Pope Pius XII. Dalin has
documented many other contemporary tributes from Jewish leaders of
different countries, including Isaac Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel:
The people of Israel will never forget what His Holiness and his
illustrious delegates are doing for our unfortunate brothers and
sisters in the most tragic hour of our history, which is living proof
of Divine Providence in this world.
The Popes Christmas messages were clear condemnations of Nazi
attacks on Jews, to the fury of the Nazis. There were even Nazi plans
to kidnap the Pope, which Hitler discussed in July 1943, and Mussolini
said the Pope was ready to let himself be deported to a concentration
camp rather do anything against his conscience. It is extraordinary
that this overwhelming evidence has been not merely overlooked but
actually suppressed.
Before the war, when the Italian Fascist regime began implementing
anti-Semitic legislation and driving Jews out of universities, the Pope
saved Jewish academics by giving them posts at the Vatican or helping
them escape to America.
This book also illuminates a little-known aspect of history: from
very early times Popes including Gregory the Great (590604) protected
Romes Jews and denounced anti-Semitism in general. Even the Borgia
Pope, Alexander VI, had a notable record here, creating the first Chair
of Hebrew at the University of Rome and frequently entertaining the
Chief Rabbi at the Vatican. He created a safe haven for Jews fleeing
persecution in Spain and Portugal.
Rabbi Dalin also shows that the religious leader who was the
greatest enemy and persecutor of the Jewish people in the Second World
War was in fact the Mufti of Jerusalem, who was in constant touch with
the Nazi leaders and a friend of Himmler, and whose constant urging
upon them of a policy of extermination may well have been crucial in
bringing about the decision to proceed with the Holocaustthe decision
was made at the Wannsee conference, two months after the Muftis
initial meeting with Hitler.
Adolf Eichmanns deputy, Dieter Wisliceny, said at the Nuremberg
trails that the Mufti was one of Eichmanns best friends and had
constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. On a
visit to Auschwitz he told the guards at the gas chambers to work more
diligently. Among other activities he recruited a Muslim SS unit, the
Hanjar Troopers, who murdered 90 per cent of Bosnias Jews as well
as, while the going was good, countless Christians. He made regular
broadcasts on Berlin radio, exhorting his audience to Kill the Jews
wherever you find them.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, President of Towards Tradition, writes of this book:
Courage is contagious, so clutch this book close to your heart.
Righting great wrongs requires great courage, and that is what The Myth
of Hitlers Pope delivers. With devastating effectiveness, Dr Dalin
exposes their motives and subdues the assailants who with rashness and
folly attempt posthumously to assassinate Pope Pius XII. This
restoration of a good mans good name is a mitzvaha Jewish good deed.
Pope
Pius XII's (1876-1958) actions during
the Holocaust remain controversial.
For much of the war, he maintained a public
front of indifference and remained silent
while German atrocities were committed. He
refused pleas for help on the grounds of neutrality,
while making statements condemning injustices
in general. Privately, he sheltered a small
number of Jews and spoke to a few select officials,
encouraging them to help the Jews.
The Early Years
The Pope was born in 1876 in Rome as Eugenio Pacelli. He
studied philosophy at the Gregorian University, learned theology at Sant
Apollinare and was ordained in 1899. He entered the Secretariat of State
for the Vatican in 1901, became a cardinal in 1929 and was appointed
Secretary of State in 1930.
Pacelli lived in Germany from 1917, when he was appointed
Papal Nuncio in Bavaria, until 1929. He knew what the Nazi
party stood for, and was elected Pope in 1939
having said very little about Adolf
Hitlers ideology beyond a 1935
speech describing the Nazis as miserable plagiarists who
dress up old errors with new tinsel. Pacelli told 250,000 pilgrims
at Lourdes on April 28, It does not make any difference whether
they flock to the banners of the social revolution, whether they are
guided by a false conception of the world and of life, or whether they
are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult.
Even as Cardinal, Pacelli's actions regarding Hitler were controversial. Hitler took power on January 30,
1933. On July
20 that same year, Pacelli and German diplomat Franz Von Papen signed
a concordat that granted freedom of practice to the Roman Catholic Church.
In return, the Church agreed to separate religion from politics. This
diminished the influence of the Catholic Center Party and the Catholic
Labor unions. The concordat was generally viewed as a diplomatic victory
for Hitler.(1)
Pacelli was elected Pope on March 2, 1939,
and took the name Pius XII. As Pope, he had three official positions.
He was head of his church and was in direct communication with bishops
everywhere. He was chief of state of the Vatican, with his own diplomatic
corps. He was also the Bishop of Rome. In theory, at least, his views
could influence 400 million Catholics, including those in all the occupied
eastern territories - the Poles, Baltics, Croatians, Slovaks and others.(2)
As soon as he was appointed Pope, Pacelli did speak
out against the 1938
Italian racial laws that dealt with mixed marriages and children of
mixed marriages.(3) However, he issued
no such condemnation of Kristallnacht
(the night of broken glass) which occurred in November 1938, and which
recent evidence shows he was informed of by Berlin's papal nuncio. As
the security of the Jewish population became more precarious, Pius XII
did intervene the month he was elected Pope, March 1939, and obtained
3,000 visas to enter Brazil for European Jews who had been baptized
and converted to Catholicism. Two-thirds of these were later revoked,
however, because of "improper conduct," probably meaning that
the Jews started practicing Judaism once in Brazil. At that time, the
Pope did nothing to save practicing Jews.(4)
Cries for
Help
Throughout the Holocaust,
Pius XII was consistently besieged with pleas for help on behalf of the
Jews.
In the spring of 1940,
the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Isaac
Herzog, asked the papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Luigi Maglione
to intercede to keep Jews in Spain
from being deported to Germany.
He later made a similar request for Jews in Lithuania.
The papacy did nothing.(5)
Within the Pope's own church, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer
of Vienna told Pius XII about
Jewish deportations in 1941. In 1942, the Slovakian charge d'affaires,
a position under the supervision of the Pope, reported to Rome
that Slovakian Jews
were being systematically deported and sent to death
camps.(6)
In October 1941,
the Assistant Chief of the U.S. delegation to the Vatican, Harold Tittman,
asked the Pope to condemn the atrocities. The response came that the
Holy See wanted to remain "neutral," and that condemning the
atrocities would have a negative influence on Catholics in German-held
lands.(7)
In late August 1942,
after more than 200,000 Ukrainian Jews had been killed, Ukrainian Metropolitan
Andrej Septyckyj wrote a long letter to the Pope, referring to the German
government as a regime of terror and corruption, more diabolical than
that of the Bolsheviks. The Pope replied by quoting verses from Psalms
and advising Septyckyj to "bear adversity with serene patience."(8)
On September 18, 1942, Monsignor Giovanni Battista
Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, wrote, "The massacres of the Jews
reach frightening proportions and forms."(9)
Yet, that same month when Myron Taylor, U.S. representative to the Vatican,
warned the Pope that his silence was endangering his moral prestige, the
Secretary of State responded on the Pope's behalf that it was impossible to
verify rumors about crimes committed against the Jews.(10)
Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, president of the Polish government-in-exile,
appealed to the Pope in January 1943
to publicly denounce Nazi violence. Bishop Preysing of Berlin did the
same, at least twice. Pius XII refused.(11)
Papal Reasons and
Responses
The Pope finally gave a reason for his consistent
refusals to make a public statement in December 1942. The Allied
governments issued a declaration, "German Policy of Extermination of
the Jewish Race," which stated that there would be retribution for the
perpetrators of Jewish murders. When Tittman asked Secretary of State
Maglione if the Pope could issue a similar proclamation, Maglione said the
papacy was "unable to denounce publicly particular atrocities."(12) One reason for this position was that the
staunchly anti-communist Pope felt he could not denounce the Nazis without
including the Communists; therefore, Pius XII would only condemn general
atrocities.(13)
The Pope did speak generally against the extermination campaign. On January 18,
1940, after the
death toll of Polish civilians was estimated at 15,000, the Pope said
in a broadcast, "The horror and inexcusable excesses committed
on a helpless and a homeless people have been established by the unimpeachable
testimony of eye-witnesses."(14)
During his Christmas Eve radio broadcast in 1942, he referred to the
"hundreds of thousands who through no fault of their own, and solely
because of their nation or race, have been condemned to death or progressive
extinction."(15) The Pope never
mentioned the Jews by name.
The Pope's indifference to the mistreatment of Jews was often
clear. In 1941,
for example, after being asked by French Marshal Henri Philippe Petain
if the Vatican would object to anti-Jewish laws, Pius XII answered that
the church condemned racism, but did not repudiate every rule against
the Jews.(16) When Petain's French puppet
government introduced "Jewish statutes," the Vichy ambassador
to the Holy See informed Petain that the Vatican did not consider the
legislation in conflict with Catholic teachings, as long as they were
carried out with "charity" and "justice."(17)
In a September 1940
broadcast, the Vatican called its policy "neutrality," but
stated in the same broadcast that where morality was involved, no neutrality
was possible.(18) This could only imply
that mass murder was not a moral issue.
On September 8, 1943, the Nazis invaded Italy and,
suddenly, the Vatican was the local authority. The Nazis gave the Jews 36
hours to come up with 50 kilograms of gold or else the Nazis would take 300
hostages. The Vatican was willing to loan 15 kilos, an offer that
eventually proved unnecessary when the Jews obtained an extension for the
delivery.(19)
Pius XII knew that Jewish deportations from Italy were
impending. The Vatican even found out from SS First Lieutenant Kurt
Gerstein the fate of those who were to be deported.(20)
Publicly, the Pope stayed silent. Privately, Pius did instruct Catholic
institutions to take in Jews. The Vatican itself hid 477 Jews and another
4,238 Jews were protected in Roman monasteries and convents.(21)
On October 16, the Nazis arrested 1,007 Roman Jews, the
majority of whom were women and children. They were taken to Auschwitz, where 811 were gassed
immediately. Of those sent to the concentration camp, 16 survived.(22)
The Pope Protests
The Pope did act behind the scenes on occasion. During
the German occupation of Hungary
in March 1944,
he, along with the papal nuncio in Budapest, Angelo Rotta, advised the
Hungarian government to be moderate in its plans concerning the treatment
of the Jews. Pius XII protested against the deportation of Jews and,
when his protests were not heeded, he cabled again and again.(23)
The Pope's demands, combined with similar protests from the King of
Sweden, the International Red Cross, Britain and the United States contributed
to the decision by the Hungarian regent, Admiral Miklos Horthy, to cease
deportations on July 8, 1944.(24)
In the later stages of the war, Pius XII appealed to several
Latin American governments to accept emergency passports
that several thousand Jews had succeeded in obtaining. Due to the efforts
of the Pope and the U.S. State Department, 13 Latin American countries
decided to honor these documents, despite threats from the Germans to
deport the passport holders.(25)
The Church also answered a request to save 6,000 Jewish
children in Bulgaria by helping
to transfer them to Palestine. At the same time, however, Cardinal Maglione
wrote to the apostolic delegate in Washington, A.G. Cicognani, saying
this did not mean the Pope supported Zionism.(26)
The Politics Behind
the Policy
Historians point out that any support the Pope did give
the Jews came after 1942, once U.S. officials told him that the allies
wanted total victory, and it became likely that they would get it.
Furthering the notion that any intervention by Pius XII was based on
practical advantage rather than moral inclination is the fact that in late
1942, Pius XII began to advise the German and Hungarian bishops that it
would be to their ultimate political advantage to go on record as speaking
out against the massacre of the Jews. (27)
One of the only cases in which the Pope gave early
support to the allies was in May 1940. He received information about
a German plan, Operation Yellow, to lay mines to deter British naval
support of Holland. Pius XII
gave his permission to send coded radio messages warning papal nuncios
in Brussels and The Hague of the plot. The German radio monitoring services
decoded the broadcast and went ahead with the plan.(28)
This papal intervention is surprising due to the Pope's persistent claim
of neutrality, and his silence regarding almost all German atrocities.
Recent Developments
The International Catholic-Jewish
Historical Commission (ICJHC), a group comprised of three Jewish and
three Catholic scholars, was appointed in 1999 by the Holy See's Commission
for Religious Relations with the Jews. In October of 2000, the group
of scholars finished their review of the Vatican's archives, and submitted
their preliminary findings to the Comission's then-President, Cardinal
Edward I Cassidy. Their report, entitled "The Vatican and the Holocaust,"
laid to rest several of the conventional defenses of Pope Pius XII.
The
often-espoused view that the Pontiff was unaware
of the seriousness of the situation of European
Jewry during the war was definitively found
to be inaccurate. Numerous documents demonstrated
that the Pope was well-informed about the
full extent of the Nazi's anti-Semitic
practices. A letter from Konrad von Preysing,
Bishop of Berlin, that proved that the Pope
was aware of the situation as early as January
of 1941, particularly caught the attention
of the commission. In that letter, Preysing
confirms that "Your Holiness is certainly
informed about the situation of the Jews in
Germany and the neighboring countries. I wish
to mention that I have been asked both from
the Catholic and Protestant side if the Holy
See could not do something on this subject...in
favor of these unfortunates." The letter,
which was a direct appeal to the Pope himself,
without intermediaries, provoked no response.
In 1942, an even more compelling eyewitness
account of the mass-murder of Jews in Lwow
was sent to the Pope by an archbishop; this,
too, garnered no response.
The commission also revealed several documents that
cast a negative light on the claim that the Vatican did all it could
to facilitate emigration of the Jews out of Europe. Internal notes meant
only for Vatican representatives revealed the opposition of Vatican
officials to Jewish emigration from Europe to Palestine. "The Holy
See has never approved of the project of making Palestine a Jewish home...[because]
Palestine is by now holier for Catholics than for Jews." Some Catholic
higher-ups violated this position of the Vatican by helping Jews to
immigrate when they were able to; most did not.
Similarly, the attempts of Jews to escape from Europe
to South America were sometimes thwarted by the Vatican. Vatican representatives
in Bolivia and Chile wrote to the pontiff regarding the "invasive"
and "cynically exploitative" character of the Jewish immigrants,
who were already engaged in "dishonest dealings, violence, immorality,
and even disrespect for religion." The commission concluded that
these accounts probably biased Pius against aiding more Jews in immigrating
away from Nazi Europe.
The claim that the Vatican needed
to remain neutral in the war has also been refuted in recent months.
In January of 2001, a document recently declassified by the U.S. National
Archives was discovered by the World Jewish Congress. The document was
a report in which Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, Pope Pius XII's
secretary of state, detailed and denounced several abuses committed
by the Soviet Army against German inhabitants of the Soviet Union. The
report was widely viewed as demonstrating that the Vatican had no compunctions
about speaking out against atrocities, even when doing so would violate
neutrality.
The preliminary report released
by the IJCHC also asked the Vatican for access to non-published archival
documents to more fully investigate the Pope's role in the Holocaust.
This request was refused by the Vatican, which allowed them access only
to documents from before 1923. As a result, the Commission suspended
its study in July 2001, without issuing a final report. Dr. Michael
Marrus, one of the three Jewish panelists and a professor of history
at the University of Toronto, expained that the commission "ran
up against a brick wall.... It would have been really halpful to have
had support from the Holy See on this issue."(29)
In 2004, news was disclosed of a diary kept by James
McDonald, the League of Nations high commissioner for refugees coming
from Germany. In 1933, McDonald raised the treatment of the Jews with
then Cardinal Pacelli, who was the Vatican secretary of state. McDonald
was specifically interested in helping a group of Jewish refugees in
the Saar region, a territory claimed by France and Germany that was
turned over to the Germans in 1935. The Pope's defenders cite his intercession
on these Jews' behalf as evidence of his sympathy for Jews persecuted
by the Nazis. According to McDonald, however, when he disccused the
matter with Pacelli, The response was noncommittal, but left
me with the definite impression that no vigorous cooperation could be
expected.(30) Pacelli did intercede in January 1935 to help
the Jews, but only after McDonald agreed that American Jews would use
their influence in Washington to protect church properties that were
being threatened by the Mexican government.(31)
In 2005, the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera,
discovered a letter dated November 20, 1946, showing that Pope
Pius XII ordered Jewish babies baptized by Catholics during the Holocaust
not to be returned to their parents. Some scholars said the disclosure
was not new and that the Pope's behavior was not remarkable. The more
important story, according to Rabbi David Rosen, international director
of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, was that
one of the recipients of the letter, Angelo Roncalli, the papal representative
in Paris, ignored the papal directive.(32)
In 2006, an Israeli scholar,
Dina Porat, discovered correspondence between
Haim Barlas, an emissary of the Jewish Agency
sent to Europe to save Jews in the 1940s,
and Giuseppe Roncalli, who later became Pope
John XXIII. Roncalli expressed criticism
of the Vaticans silence during the
war. In June 1944, Barlas sent Roncalli a
copy of a report compiled by two Jews who
escaped from Auschwitz documenting the mass
murder at the camp. Roncalli forwarded the
report to the Vatican, which had claimed
it did not know about the report until October.
Earlier, Roncalli had written to the president
of Slovakia at the behest of Barlas asking
him to stop the Nazi deportations of Jews.(33)
Conclusion
The Pope's reaction to the Holocaust
was complex and inconsistent. At times, he
tried to help the Jews and was successful.
But these successes only highlight the
amount of influence he might have had,
if he not chosen to remain silent on so
many other occasions. No one knows for
sure the motives behind Pius XII's actions,
or lack thereof, since the Vatican archives
have only been fully opened to select
researchers. Historians offer many reasons
why Pope Pius XII was not a stronger public
advocate for the Jews: A fear of Nazi reprisals,
a feeling that public speech would have
no effect and might harm the Jews, the
idea that private intervention could accomplish
more, the anxiety that acting against
the German government could provoke a schism
among German Catholics, the church's traditional
role of being politically neutral and
the fear of the growth of communism were
the Nazis to be defeated.(34) Whatever his motivation,
it is hard to escape the conclusion that
the Pope, like so many others in positions
of power and influence, could have done
more to save the Jews.
uit
deze bronnen blijkt eveneens dat de figuur van Pius XII niet helemaal
onbesproken is en dat er vele vragen onbeantwoord blijven. Maar het is
in elk geval ook duidelijk dat het zeker geen Hitlerfanaat was en
evenmin dat hij totaal ongevoelig was voor het drama dat de europese
joden overkwam.
Er zal dus nog veel, hopelijk proper, water door de Zenne stromen en er
zullen nog vele documenten moeten bestudeerd worden vooraleer we onjs
een duidelijk beeld kunnen vormen over de rol van de oorlogspaus. Maar
wij doen dus niet mee met diegenen die in het linkse kamp allerlei
theoriën verkondeigen over een zogenaamde nazipaus. Dat ze die paus
willen heilig verklaren is echt ons ding niet. Maar als het klopt dat
Hitler opdracht zou hebben geven om hem te laten onvoeren ergens in
1943 en op die manier de katholieken en hun kerk rechtstreeks aan te
vallen, dan kan het moeilijk anders dan dat er sommigen in Pius XII een
soort redder van het geloof zien. En dat is dan ook weer erg
overdreven, zullen we maar zeggen. Wij hebben in elk geval meer begrip
voor de moeilijke positie van de paus dan voor het gekonkelfoes tussen
de toenmalige CIA (OSS) en notoire jodenvervolers als Karl Wolff. En we
zullen nog terugkomen op de verdere rol die oss heeft gespeeld in het
uit het land smokkelen van nazimisdadigers. In elk geval zijn zij veel
aktiever geweest dan de paus. Het is ook "bon ton" te beweren dat het
vaticaan meegeholpen heeft met die bewuste ontsnappingsroute die gekend
werd als odessa en de spin. In elk geval zijn er andere organisaties
die handig genoeg waren om heel wat oorlogsmidadigers uit het land te
smokkelen...
Het probleem van de Brusselse waterzuivering begint pas...
eindelijk krijgen we de mening van een expert over de problemen rond
het waterzuiveringsstation Brussel-Noord. En deze mening heeft het
voordeel duidelijk en zeer begrijpelijk te zijn. Zo hebben we ze
graag...
BRUSSEL - Bij de bouw van het waterzuiveringsstation Brussel-Noord zijn conceptfouten gemaakt', zegt Guy Dries, specialist waterzuivering.
In een poging de prijs te drukken heeft exploitant Aquiris verkeerde
keuzes gemaakt. De gevolgen zijn nu pijnlijk duidelijk.'
Van onze redacteur
Aquiris heeft de problemen met het waterzuiveringsstation zelf gezocht. Dat elf dagen lang ongezuiverd afvalwater in de Zenne is gestroomd, is daar een pijnlijk gevolg van.'
Ingenieur Guy Dries is verontwaardigd over het stilleggen van het waterzuiveringsstation
Brussel-Noord, en vooral over de argumenten die exploitant Aquiris
daarvoor heeft gebruikt. Dries werkt al twintig jaar bij de Vlaamse
watermaatschappij Aquafin, maar spreekt in persoonlijke naam. Ik vind
het gewoon belangrijk om het welles-nietesspelletje te overstijgen, en
onafhankelijke informatie te geven.'
De Brusselse
minister van Leefmilieu, Evelyne Huytebroeck (Ecolo), en Aquiris, de
publiekprivate exploitant van het zuiveringsstation geven elkaar de
schuld voor de vervuiling van de Zenne tussen 8 en 19december. In die
periode lag het zuiveringsstation volledig stil.
Volgens
de uitbater zit in het binnenstromende afvalwater meer puin en zand dan
bij de bouw van het station vanaf 2001 was voorzien, en tastte dat de
installatie aan. Minister Huytebroeck spreekt dat tegen. Het water is
de voorbije jaren niet veranderd', is haar verdediging. Aquiris had
met deze waterkwaliteit rekening moeten houden, en moet dus betalen
voor de schade die het zand aan de installaties toebrengt.'
Ik
spreek me niet uit over de verantwoordelijkheid', zegt Guy Dries. Ik
weet wel dat het argument van Aquiris over het zand op niets slaat. In
elk waterzuiveringsstation stroomt zand in het afvalwater binnen. Dat is in Brussel niet meer dan in Gent en Antwerpen.'
Het
probleem is dat Aquiris voor de goedkoopste oplossing heeft gekozen,
namelijk dompelpompen, en niet voor Archimedesschroeven (vijzels). Die
schroeven zijn twee tot drie keer duurder, maar wegens hun duurzaamheid
worden die in alle waterzuiveringsstations
vanaf een bepaalde grootte gebruikt. Zelfs in het station van Deurne
worden dergelijke vijzels gebruikt, en dat bedient 200.000 inwoners (tegenover 1,1 miljoen in Brussel-Noord, red.).'
Als
Aquiris voor deze optie had gekozen, dan waren er nu geen problemen met
instromend zand, want vijzels zijn veel robuuster, en dus beter tegen
zand bestand.'
Ook voor de slibbehandeling is de
verkeerde optie gekozen. Aquiris heeft schachtpompen met een schroef
gebruikt, terwijl ook hier vijzels beter waren geweest. Via die
schachtpompen klitten vochtige doekjes bijvoorbeeld samen tot slierten,
die de motor blokkeren.'
De bouw van het waterzuiveringsstation
heeft tweehonderd miljoen euro gekost, onder toezicht van het Brussels
Gewest. Veolia, het Franse moederbedrijf van Aquiris, is naar eigen
zeggen in 57 landen actief en helpt wereldwijd 108 miljoen mensen aan
drinkwater of met het zuiveren van hun afvalwater. Hoe is het dan toch
fout kunnen lopen?
Veolia heeft vooral een
expertise op het vlak van drinkwater. Dus dat zou een verklaring kunnen
zijn. Los daarvan is het duidelijk dat voor de goedkoopste oplossing is
gekozen, en niet de meest duurzame.'
Daarnaast heeft het Brussels Gewest nooit expertise opgebouwd in waterzuivering, en kan het dus moeilijk doorgedreven controles doen. Dat is geen verwijt, maar wel een vaststelling.'
Aquiris
klaagt ook over brokstukken, kabels en bakstenen die via de Brusslse
riolen het station binnenkomen, en er de installaties blokkeren.
Ik begrijp niet hoe die brokstukken het station binnen kunnen komen. Een rooster houdt die grote stukken toch tegen? In alle waterzuiveringsstations zijn er brokstukken. Precies daarom zijn er roosters en putten waarin die worden opgevangen.'
Wel
opvallend is de grootte van die brokstukken. Aquiris spreekt van
stukken beton. Maar het is fysiek bijna onmogelijk dat die door het
water meegesleurd worden. Dat dergelijke grote stukken door de kracht
van het water enkele meter opschuiven, kan ik begrijpen. Maar
kilometerslang doorheen de rioleringen lijkt me onwaarschijnlijk.'
Daarom
kan het volgens mij niet anders dan dat er sabotage in het spel is.
Maar wie of wat, kan ik niet zeggen. Dat is aan het gerecht om uit te
zoeken.'
Hoe moet het nu verder?
Het waterzuiveringsstation dat er nu staat is in ieder geval bricolage, die
de belastingbetaler veel geld kost. Want de bouw heeft door de gemaakte
keuzes misschien minder geld gekost, maar de uitbating is des te
duurder. Zo moeten de pompen om de zoveel maanden worden herzien. Mocht
Aquiris voor duurzaam materiaal hebben gekozen, dan moest dat nazicht
maar om de paar jaar gebeuren. Wat de beste oplossing voor de toekomst
is, is een politieke keuze.'
Voilà...en
we vernemen in de zelfde krant nu ook dat Aquiris in financiële
moeilijkheden zit. Dus is het probleem verre van opgelost zullen we dan
maar besluiten!
'Aquiris op de rand van faillissement'
woensdag 23 december 2009
Auteur:
pl
'Aquiris op de rand van faillissement'
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BRUSSEL - Het bedrijf Aquiris,
uitbater van het waterzuiveringsstation Brussel-Noord, staat op de rand
van het faillissement. Dat zegt het kabinet van Brussels minister van
Leefmilieu Evelyne Huytebroeck.
Volgens het kabinet van Huytebroeck (Ecolo) heeft Aquiris zware financiële problemen. Aquiris
is de exploitant van het waterzuiveringsstation Brussel-Noord, en heeft
al anderhalf jaar een conflict met Huytebroeck over de vraag wie moet
betalen om de schade te betalen die het teveel aan zand dat installatie
binnenstroomt, veroorzaakt.
Aquiris wil officieel 'niet
ingaan op deze geruchten'. Volgens andere bronnen moet de uitspraak van
de omgeving van Huytebroeck gezien worden als een strategische zet in
het conflict om de kosten voor de zandschade. Aquiris
zou het financieel inderdaad wat moeilijk hebben, onder meer omdat het
Brussels Gewest dit jaar een deel van haar jaarlijkse bijdrage niet
betaalt. Maar van problemen zou geen sprake zijn. Aquiris is een dochter van de Franse multinational Veolia, en zou zo goed ingedekt zijn tegen financiële problemen.
'Wat ook de financiële situatie van Aquiris
moge zijn, de holding Veolia Water zal de financiële verplichtingen van
al haar dochterondernemingen garanderen, zoals ze altijd heeft gedaan',
meldt Veolia Water in een kort persbericht.
Gisteren vermeldden we reeds Operatie Sunrise of de geheime onderhandelingen tussen de Amerikanen, Zwitsers en af en toe watpogingen tot inmenging vanwege de Russen enerzijds en de Wehrmacht en de SS die het bevel voerden over Noord-Italië anderzijds. Van deze laatste zijn we niet overtuigd dat ze geen dubbele rol speelden door de onderhandelingen zo lang te laten aanslepen tot ze wisten dat het plan van de Alpenvesting en een eventuele ontsnapping uit Berlijn van Hitler naar Berchtesgaden definitief werd opgegeven. Hitler besloot tenslotte Berlijn als laatste bolwerk te behoeden met alle gevolgen van dien. Het is trouwens opmerkelijk dat de definitieve overgave bijna volledig samenvalt met de zelfmoord van Hitler op 30 april 1945.
Een uitgebreid en zeer goed gedocumenteerd overzicht van operatie
Sunrise waar de voorloper van de latere CIA het OSS een belangrijke rol
heeft gespeeld samen met onze bekende "vriend" Karl Wolff kan je lezen
- en het is een echte aanrader voor lezertjes die dachten dat alles
zwart en wit was met langs de ene kant de slechteriken zoals de SS en
langs de andere kant de goeie geallieerden...- in dit document: http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/sunrise.pdf
Hier
is ook een mooi beeld te vormen van de Duitse plannen om zich
uiteindelijk terug te trekken in hun zogenaamde Alpenvesting rond
Berchtesgaden, de invloed van de Zwitserse diplomatie en het trachten
te verhinderen dat de Russen te grote delen van Oostenrijk, Italië en
zelfs Frankrijk zouden innemen met hulp van sommige partizanen. Als je
dan merkt dat nadien figuren als Karl Wolff een zeer lichte straf
hebben opgelopen ondanks hun zeer duidelijke rol in de massale
uitroeiïng van Italiaanse joden dan begint men toch wel zware twijfels
te krijgen ...
Morgen zoeken we verder uit of Pius XII nu wel een Hitlerbewonderaar was... In elk geval is nu reeds duidelijk dat het Jodenvraagstuk de Amerikanen weinig interesseerde anders hadden ze figu!ren als Wolff ook anders laten berechten in het fampeuse proces van Nurnberg
In elk geval is operatie Sunrise een mooi voorbeeld van wat de geschiedenisboekskes ons NIET leren...
Nu er weer volop proper water door onze geliefde Zenne stroomt zullen
we ons focussen op andere onderwerpen zoals daar zijn de toekomstige
zaligverklaring van Pius XII, beter bekend onder het pseudoniem
"Hitlers paus". Terecht of onterecht? We beginnen met een verwijzing naar een pro-Pius website die wordt volgeschreven door de Fighting Nun namelijk Sister Margherita Marchione
Die
vechtnon beweert zelfs dat Pius XII Joden heeft opgenomen in zijn eigen
appartementen dus zeker de moeite waard om te lezen maar we missen wel
wat getuigenissen van de betrokken joden zelf. Het is niet onze
gewoonte voor waar aan te nemen wat nonnen of andere "specialisten"
beweren zonder enig bewijs. Maar lees gerust de website van Margherita: http://www.piusxiipope.info/
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- An SS general close to Adolf Hitler foiled a plot
to kidnap Pope Pius XII during World War II and to put the Vatican and
its treasures under Nazi control, according to a new book.
The book, "A Special Mission" by Dan Kurzman, refutes arguments that
Pope Pius XII maintained a public silence about Nazi actions during
World War II because he was anti-Semitic or because he was sympathetic
toward Hitler.
"They were bitter, bitter enemies. They despised each other," said
Kurzman of the pontiff and the fuhrer in a May 31 telephone interview
with Catholic News Service. The pope hated Hitler "not only for his inhumanity but because he threatened the whole church structure."
Hitler, for his part, "saw the pope as his greatest enemy" and as
someone with whom he was "competing for the minds and souls that he
wanted to control," the author added.
Kurzman also said he found no evidence that Pope Pius was anti-Semitic,
noting that one of his closest childhood friends was a Jewish boy with
whom he remained in contact throughout his life.
The book, published June 1 by Da Capo Press in Cambridge, Mass., is
subtitled "Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope
Pius XII." It details the actions of SS Gen. Karl Wolff, chief of staff
to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, in the months after the overthrow of
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in July 1943.
Describing Wolff as one of "history's most successful opportunists,"
Kurzman said the general earned the "full confidence" of both Hitler,
who ordered him in September 1943 to kidnap Pope Pius, and of the
pontiff himself, whom Wolff warned about the plot during a secret
meeting at the Vatican in May 1944.
Hitler ordered the kidnapping, according to the book, because he feared
that Pope Pius would speak out about Nazi actions against the Jews, and
in particular against a proposed Nazi roundup of the Jewish community
in Rome. Hitler was afraid the pope's words could trigger a
"revolution" against the Nazis in Italy, worldwide and even within the
Germany army, about 40 percent of which was made up of Catholics.
Pope Pius, for his part, was afraid that a strong public stand against
the Nazis would force Hitler to take action against the Vatican and
would also endanger the many Jews being sheltered in Italian
monasteries, churches and convents.
The pope's behind-the-scenes actions also brought the roundup of Roman
Jews to a halt, Kurzman said. Only about 1,000 of the 8,000 Jews living
in Rome at the time were deported to Nazi concentration camps, he said.
Kurzman, who worked as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post
during the 1960s and early '70s, was the first journalist to interview
Wolff in 1970 after the former general was allowed to return to his
home town of Darmstadt in Germany. Wolff died in 1984.
"He claimed to me that he didn't know Jews were being murdered, which
was of course a lie," Kurzman said. "He tried to close his mind to the
reality" of the Holocaust by saying that his job was only to get the
trains to destinations like Dachau and Treblinka on time, while
ignoring what was happening to those who arrived at the Nazi
concentration camps, the author added.
Although the Nazis were careful not to put any details of the plot to
kidnap Pope Pius XII into writing, and Kurzman has not seen materials
in the Vatican Secret Archives from that period, he said the plot and
other details about the pope's actions during World War II were
confirmed to him by Jesuit Father Peter Gumpel, who had read the
archival material as "relator," or chief investigator, for Pope Pius'
sainthood cause.
Despite criticism from some Jewish groups, work on the sainthood cause
for Pope Pius XII has continued in recent years. In a vote Father
Gumpel called "unanimous and totally positive," the Congregation for
Saints' Causes recommended May 8 that Pope Benedict XVI formally
declare the World War II-era pope venerable.
Kurzman, who has written 16 other books, said he had no opinion on
whether Pope Pius XII should be beatified or canonized, but wanted to
clear up certain untruths contained in "Hitler's Pope," a 1999 book by
English author John Cornwell.
"He was a human being and he made mistakes, but I found no evidence
that he was anti-Semitic," Kurzman said of Pope Pius. He said a letter
cited by Cornwell containing an anti-Semitic remark was not written by
the pope but by an aide and did not reflect the pope's views.
END
ha, we vinden hier namen als SS generaal Karl Wolff en we kijken even wie deze brave borst was die zo veel geheimen kende: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938273/bio
Karl Wolff was born in 1900 to a privileged family in the city of
Darmstadt, Germany. During the First World War, Wolff was commissioned
an officer in 1918 and served in the Hessian Infantry Regiment.
Lieutenant Wolff was one of the youngest officers ever commissioned,
having received his rank at the age of 17, and had also been awarded
the Iron Cross First Class. In 1920, Wolff left the now demobilized
German Army and became a small Time businessman. In 1931, drawn by Nazi
ideals of a reborn and again powerful Germany, Wolff joined the Nazi
Party and also applied for membership in the SS. He was accepted as a
member in July of 1931 and assigned the SS number 14235. Wolff served
in an SS mustering formation in Munich, quickly rising through the
enlisted ranks and being commissioned an SS-Sturmfüher (Lieutenant) in
February 1932. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Wolff was promoted
to SS-Captain and briefly served as an SS military liaison officer to
the German Army. In June of that year, Wolff was personally recruited
by the SS Commander Heinrich Himmler to head the new office of the
Reichsführer's Personal Staff. Wolff became Himmler's adjutant on June
15, 1933 and received an unprecedented number of promotions through his
new position. By the start of 1937, Wolff had risen to the rank of
SS-Gruppenführer (Lieutenant General) and was considered as third in
command of the entire SS. During the Second World War, Wolff remained
in his job as Himmler's adjutant, but soon began losing authority and
power as disagreements developed with Himmler and also Wolff began to
fall under the shadow of the number two man in the SS, Reinhard
Heydrich. In 1942, Wolff was made a full SS-General (Obergruppenführer)
but dismissed by Himmler as Chief of Staff to the Reichsführer. Wolff,
however, did manage a comeback
as Adolf Hitler personally granted him equivalent General's rank in the
Waffen-SS and assigned him as an SS adjutant to the Italian Government
in 1943. When Italy surrendered to the Allies later that year, Germany
occupied the country and Wolff became the Supreme SS and Police Leader
of Italy. At the start of 1945, Wolff (who was now acting military
commander of Italy) extended secret negotiation requests to the Allies
and thus hastened the end of the war in Italy by surrendering the
country to the Allies on May 2, 1945. Wolff was taken into American
custody, although was allowed to escape trial as an SS-General and
leading Nazi, by providing evidence against his fellow Nazis at
Nuremberg, in 1946. In 1947, Karl Wolff retired to private life,
however the West German government soon arrested Wolff for war crimes in 1949, sentencing him to four years in prison. Wolff was again arrested
in 1964, after evidence presented at the Adolf Eichmann trial, in
Israel, had revealed that Wolff had organized the deportation of
Italian Jews to the Nazi death camps in 1944. Wolff was sentenced to
fifteen years in prison
but only served half of this term and was released in 1971. In the late
1970s and early 1980s, Karl Wolff became very popular amongst
historical and academic groups as Wolff frequently lectured on the
internal workings of the SS and his life as a personal associate of
Heinrich Himmler. As one of the only surviving top SS-Generals from
World War II, Wolff can also be seen on several documentary films, such
as the "The World at War"
(1973) miniseries and several 1980s documentaries on the History of the
SS. Wolff was also portrayed as 'General Max Helm' in the motion
picture The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV), staring Gregory Peck. Karl Wolff died 1984 in Rosenheim, West Germany.
en
die Karl Wolff lijkt een zeer eigenaardig beestje als we deze website
mogen geloven. Een website die trouwens de theorie van de pauselijke
ontvoering ook naar voren schuift. In elk geval lijkt Wolff hier als
een heel handig ventje uit de ganse geschiedenis te komen....en dan
vooral een geschiedenis waarover wij in de officiële boekskes weinig
hebben gelezen. Maar laten we toch maar voorzichtig zijn met deze
versie die ons wel interessant lijkt maar we zijn geen
wetenschappers...in elk geval pleit deze versie in het voordeel van
Pius XII maar vooral ook in het nadeel van anderen maar lees het zelf
maar na: http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14693
First of all I would like to state for the record Wolff was not awarded the RK, nor is his name spelled WOLF.
If there is one man that I know, it
happens to be Karl Wolff. This is a document that I helped compose some
time back, please read carefully. Some of the information here I have
come across in research, and other things I have a been told.
Oh, by the way, I have a question for you! Would you believe me if I told you that my Step-Father is his nephew!
I have about 20-25 military photos of
Wolff that are on my computer at the moment. If you would like to see
these, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you.
William Kramer
Heinrich Himmler, Leader of the
Waffen SS and Chief of the German Police, who administered the SS and
police through central offices.
In 1944 there were 12 central offices:
Personal Staff of the Reich Leader SS, headed by Karl Wolff
SS Central Office headed by Gottlob Berger, for Waffen SS reinforcements
Central Office for Operations, headed by Hans Jüttner, to administer the General SS and command the Waffen SS
Central Office for Race and Settlement, headed by Richard Hildebrandt, to watch over the racial purity of the SS
Central Office SS Court, headed by Franz Breithaupt, to administer military justice in the SS and police
Central Office for Personnel, headed by Maximilian Von Herff
Central Office for Reich Security, headed by Reinhard Heydrich and later Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Central Office of the Order Police, headed by Kurt Daluege
Central Office for Economy and Administration, headed by Oswald Pohl
Heißmeyer Office, headed by August Heißmeyer, for political education
Ethnic German Aid Office, headed by Werner Lorenz, to organize aid for ethnic Germans
Central Office of the Reich Commissar for the Strengthening of German
Ethnicity headed by Ulrich Greifelt, for the resettlement of ethnic Germans.
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Wolfchen (1900 - 1984)
SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS
Born: 13. May 1900 in Darmstadt / Hessen.
Died: 17. Jul. 1984 in Rosenheim / Bayern.
Commander of the German forces (Wehrmacht) who occupied Italy
(Heer - Army) (Polizei - Police) and the Waffen SS
SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen SS: 30. Jan. 1942
Generalleutnant of the Waffen SS: 3. May 1940
SS-Gruppenführer: 30. Jan. 1937
SS-Brigadeführer: 9. Nov. 1935
SS-Oberführer: 4. Jul. 1934
SS-Standartenführer: 20. Apr. 1934
SS-Obersturmbannführer: 30. Jan. 1934
SS-Sturmbannführer: 9. Nov. 1933
SS-Sturmhauptführer: 30. Jan. 1933
SS-Sturmfuhrer: 18. Feb. 1932.
Career:
23. Sep. 1943 relieved of the personal Chief of staff for Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS
(duties undertaken by a deputy from 18. Sep. 1943)
(head of Himmlers personal staff from Nov. 1936)
8. Jun. 1939 - May 1945
Chief adjutant of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
Personal Adjutant to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
(Nov. 1935 - Jun. 1939)
Mar. 1934 - Nov. 1935
Seated at the Reichstag in Hessen
(The Reichstag was the home of the German Parliament in Berlin.)
7. Oct. 1931.
Entered NSDAP and later, after the creation of the organization, Wolff
joined the Waffen SS in Munich (Wolff first joined the Allgemeine-SS
and then attended the SA Leadership School)
Decorations & Awards awarded in WWII
German Cross in (?) Gold (?) : 9. Dec. 1944
as SS Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS
as Supreme commander of all German forces in Italy (Heeresgruppe)
Awarded by Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring
1939 Spange to the 1914 Iron Cross 1st class
1939 Spange to the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd class
War Merit Cross 1st class with swords for combatants
War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords for combatants
Medal for the occupation of Czechoslovakia on October 1st 1938 and Prague bar
Medal for the occupation of Austria on Mach 13th 1938
Medal for the occupation of the Memel lands
NSDAP golden party badge
15 year long service award of the NSDAP (Silver)
10 year long service award of the NSDAP (Bronze)
Award for the 1936 German Olympics 1st class
German Social Welfare Decoration 1st Class
SA sports badge in Silver
SA sports badge in Bronze
SS sword of honor
SS deaths head honor ring
Wolff was also awarded the military orders as plenipotentiary of the Reich to Benito Mussolini:
Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy
Grand Cross of the Order of the Italian cross
Grand Order of Mauritius and Lazarus, Commanders Grade
In 1943, when Benito Mussolini was overthrown, the
Nazis were in control of all northern Italy. It was a final chance to
liquidate the Jews of Italy, a previous option that did not exist while
Mussolini was in control. Benito Mussolini remained independent from
Adolf Hitlers hatred of the Jews. When Mussolini was overthrown, he
could do nothing to stop the Germans from disposing of Italys Jewish
infestation. Mussolini had protected thousands of Jews with the help
of Pope Pius XII, the "Pope of the Jews," before the Germans had taken
complete control of the mainland of Italy.
Hitler ordered the destruction of the Vatican and
the deportation of Pope Pius XII for supposedly hiding Jews from the
Germans. This order was given out immediately after Mussolini had been
overthrown. The Pope was to deported to Liechtenstein, a political
concentration camp in late 1943 for his opposition to the greater
German Reich. When Hitler ordered out this destruction, he wanted the
SS to destroy the Holy Sea with "blood and fire."
In late October of 1943, there were uncertain
conditions on railroad shipments and availability due to allied
bombardment. The Germans could not use the axis trains located in
Naples, nor could the Germans use the southern railway system. The
German police forces and SS gathered nearly 8,000 Jews in Rome. Shortly
after, these Jews were crowded in a small agricultural train and sent
along their way to Auschwitz. This train was disguised as a shipment of
grain.
Most of the German officials in Italy were swift and thorough with the
"eradication" of Jews in Italy. SS General Karl Wolff had played a key role in the
deportation of Italian Jews to Auschwitz. This was one factor that was brought up in
post war trials. Karl Wolff was responsible for the death of nearly 10,000 Italian Jews
by the end of the war. Wolff was also accused of the annihilation of all Italian partisans
in Belarus.
During September, 1943, and May1945, Wolff tried effortlessly to fight off
Partisans waging guerilla warfare in Italy. He was sentenced to 15 years of penal
servitude for these actions. On April 21, 1945 undetected Italian Partisans took
control of key Italian towns not occupied by the allies. The Partisans immediately
executed all Fascist leaders in these areas. The last remnants of Italian Fascism was
being slowly dissolved. Benito Mussolini, tried to escape Italy with his mistress, both
of which were dressed as Nazis. The two were easily recognized and were taken
prisoner, only to be hung by the Italian people. After the hanging of Mussolini and his
Mistress, the angry mob took the bodies down and beat them into a bloody pulp.
In February of 1945, SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff
contacted Allen Dulles in Switzerland to arrange the early surrender of
all axis forces in Italy. This highly secretive surrender of Italy was
known as Operation Sunrise. The negotiation was conducted between Allen
Dulles, former CIA director, and SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff. At
the time Dulles was the OSS officer in Zurich, Switzerland, Wolff was
located in northern Italy, making contact fairly easy.
Karl Wolff established contact with Allen Dulles and
the O.S.S. through Italian and Swiss intermediaries. His negotiations
behind Hitler's back in Zurich led to the early surrender of German
forces in Italy. For his services he was not tried at Nuremberg and
appeared as a willing prosecution witness.
At the time Wolff was a very debonair and well
connected SS officer, as well as a very cunning and intelligent man. As
the commander of all SS and Gestapo forces in Italy, which included all
regular German police forces, Wolff controlled the destiny of many men.
The agreement was to surrender Italy early and save thousands of allied
and axis soldiers from long and harsh battle this also guaranteed the
SS general an easy trial after the war, with flimsy charges.
These negotiations were done behind Hitlers back
and could very well cost Wolff his own life. If he didnt surrender to
the allies, however, surely it would cost him his life. The SS General
foresaw war crimes trials after the war, and he needed to have every
bit of sympathy in the court system. SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff
appeared in the Nuremberg trials, his early surrender of Italy had
saved his life.
Wolff had talked secretly with General of
Administration Vietinghoff-Scheel, the commander of all regular forces
in Italy. If Wolff surrendered his SS and police forces, this meant
that Vietinghoff-Scheel would have to fight the allies with fewer
German troops. Thus the mass evacuation of German forces, and the
surrender of all regular troops in Italy was arranged. On May 2, 1945,
the two Generals came to a final agreement, surrendering and removing
all axis forces from Italy. This included all Heer, Waffen SS, Gestapo
and Polizei forces on the northern mainland.
On May 2, 1945 and nearly all of Italy was under
allied control, the UN-conditional surrender of Italy was underway
three days later. Plenipotentiaries to General Vietinghoff-Scheel and
SS General Karl Wolff signed the papers. Wolff was in charge of all
military administration in Italy, next to the side of General of
Administration Vietinghoff-Scheel. On May 5, 1945, all of the Nazi
German forces in Italy were surrendered. British Field Marshal Sir
Harold Alexander and American Lieutenant General W. D. Morgan accepted
the surrender of German forces. Italy was now free of all Nazi German
Wehrmacht forces.
The allies had wondered why Wolff had taken so long
to finally surrender, as the negotiations began in February of 1945.
The allies didnt know that Wolff and Vietinghoff-Scheel were planning
one of the biggest mass evacuation of troops in world history. These
Generals prepared to surrender some of the German forces that were used
up and tired out, but fresh German troops were sent back into Germany.
The tired, battle scarred German troops were sent to POW camps in
England, there they were treated for injuries and were provided with
all human necessities.
Allen Dulles and other allied leaders were located
in lower Switzerland at Zurich, this meant that the German forces that
were allowed to escape had to move at an extraordinary pace up through
western Austria, and not Switzerland. This was an extremely difficult
task to complete as both the Russians and Americans were advancing at
rapid speeds into the Fatherland.
The evacuation was a success, nearly 25,000 German
troops escaped either surrender or the complete annihilation at the
hand of the allies. These two brilliant German Generals masterminded
this retreat. Performed in April of 1945, this is said to be the most
perfectly executed evacuation ever performed by the German hand in
world history.
In the spring of 1945 the allies wanted to move up
the mainland of Italy on the offensive. The 8th army under control of
General McCreery would attack Vietinghoff-Scheel Army Group C this
would allow the allies to take out Comacchio and then move across two
key rivers, the Santerno and Senio. These two rivers had previously
been flooded by the Germans who left the American infantry bogged down
in mud.
A massive attack of allied forces would strike and
take the Po River before the Germans could retreat across the river to
safety. This plan was to be launched by General Lucien Truscott and the
5th US army. Instead of being captured along with his troops,
Vietinghoff-Scheel left all of his big equipment behind and quickly
moved across the river, just missing the allied forces.
This failure cost the Americans a great deal of
time, and trouble, allowing the Germans to escape on April 1, 1945. The
last attempt to take the German army of Army Group C was also
ineffective on April 9, 1945 as the Germans were retreating nearly
twice as fast as expected. The Germans were already in the Swiss Alps
by the time the amphibious landing took place. The end of Nazi-infested
Italy was near, but there were still German soldiers to fight and
lengthen the war.
Were there deals made between the allies and axis powers that assured Nazi leaders of peaceful life after the war?
There were many uses after the war for many Nazi
criminals. SS Obergruppenführer Wolff was one of the highest-ranking SS
officers to survive the war, and he helped with the pre-planned war
against the Soviet Union. Many other German officers were used during
the cold war. Placed in the CIA, these men provided valuable tactics
and information. German scientists also were used immediately after the
war for help in building more atomic bombs. In return the United States
let some of these men live a somewhat normal life in places such as
South America.
During February 1945 through May 1945 several SS
leaders seeking refuge in Italy escaped under Nazi ratlines. These
ratlines provided certain Nazi leaders with a safe way to evacuate
Europe without suspicion. The Central Intelligence Division during and
after WWII knew about these ratlines. This unspoken agreement was to
ensure the Americans an allegiance between Gestapo agents and SS
members. The American Government had a desire to form an allegiance
with Nazi leaders in an effort against communism.
Tens of thousands of SS and other Nazis escaped
through these ratlines in fear of capture. Some of these leaders
included Wolff's personal friends, such as:
Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, captured later by Israeli agents.
Gustav Wagner, who ran the Sobibor death camp.
Franz Stangl, the commander of the Treblinka concentration camp.
Dr. Joseph Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death" in
some post works (Mengele was a war criminal wanted for his cruel and
inhumane experiments on inmates at Auschwitz, Mengele also escaped
after the war to Argentina and lived a long life.)
SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff stood alone and
gained promises of immunity from the allies while and war crimes. Wolff
was also able to delay the American advance, while not signing the
surrender of Italy until the time of Hitler's death. Wolff was
considered a Nazi peace negotiator for his demanding job of saving the
Vatican and pope from Hitler, along with the industrial bases of Italy
located near Milan.
Instead of being tried himself, Wolff ended up as a
witness at the Nuremberg trials for his later peaceful actions. Wolff
was also the reason that other war criminals among his close circle
were shipped to North Africa and quietly released. The Americans agreed
to this when Wolff convinced the German high command to hand Austria
and some other territories over to the western allies instead of the
Communist Soviet Union. When the time for the war crime trials came in
early 1946, Wolff was allowed to appear as a witness and was allowed to
wear his badges of rank - epaulettes. Herman Goring, the Prussian
Luftwaffe grand commander, wasnt even allowed to have any of his
personal items, nor his uniform.
Wolff played a key witness in post war trials
against several Nazi war criminals. Nearly all of the criminals that
were tried in Nuremberg were granted prison sentences, although a
select few were executed by hanging. There he continued with several
trials in the German courts, for his efforts as appearing as a witness,
his own war crime sentences were to be less severe. Wolff was tried by
a German court and sentenced to 4 years in labor camp; he was released
in August of 1949. During these four years, Wolff was held at an allied
internment camp. Wolff went on to live outside of Munich with his wife
and two daughters.
In May of 1961, Wolff gave a German magazine an essay written by himself
about the Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. This drew attention to Wolff in May 1961,
(during the Eichmann trial). As a result to this, Wolff was arrested in 1962. He was
sentenced in 1964 to 15 years imprisonment for the direct deportation of 300,000
Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka, the deportation of Italian Jews to
Auschwitz, and the massacre of Italian Partisans in Belarus. During this sentence,
Wolff lost 10 years of his civil rights but eventually he was granted all civil privileges in
1971 when he was released early from prison. He was released early for having an
otherwise blameless.
The Nazis had made it very easy for the allies to
decrypt certain messages sent about the Holocaust. The Germans wanted
the allies to know certain things when the end of the war was
approaching; these messages could be used to eventually protect
Germany. SS General Wolff provided documents showed proof that the
allies knew about the Holocaust in Italy and failed to do anything
about it.
This brought about the debate on how much the allies
really did know about the Holocaust throughout WWII, and if they could
have saved millions of Jewish lives. In 1943 British intelligence broke
the German ENIGMA machine, for two years they were listening in on
every German transmitted telegram.
"Germany developed the ENIGMA
machine as a means of guaranteeing the security of their communications
in the field. To help decipher German ENIGMA communications, British
cryptanalysts developed the "bombe," an analog computer capable of
rapidly running thousands of possible combinations. British success in
decrypting German communications overshadowed German successes in 1943."
"While historians have known that British
cryptographers succeeded in breaking the SS security service code in
the summer of 1943, the content of messages dealing with deportation of
Italian Jews was previously classified. An OSS officer stationed at
Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking headquarters, had access to
the messages as soon as they were deciphered and transmitted them back
to Washington. The newly released documents show that Kolbe provided
Dulles with corroborating information about the liquidation of Italian
Jews at the end of 1943."
There have been several notions raised when reading
the newly released OSS documents, which were previously kept top secret
by the CIA, released in 2000. One of the main questions is why the
allies did not further prosecute SS general Karl Wolff. The SS General
had played a key role in the deportation of 300,000 Jews throughout the
war. There was extensive documentation provided against the Americans
during these arguments, as the Americans had proof of German atrocities:
Telegram from SS Obergruppenführer and General of
the Waffen-SS Karl Wolff to Dr. Albert Ganzenmüller, Undersecretary in
the Reich Ministry of Transportation and Deputy General Director of the
German Railways:
"Since July 22, a train
carrying 5,000 Jews has been leaving daily from Warsaw to Treblinka via
Malkinia, and in addition, two times a week, a train with 5,000 Jews
from Przemysl to Belzec. (November 1943)
Dr. Albert Ganzenmüller, to SS Lieutenant General Karl Wolff:
"I sincerely thank you for
your letter, I was especially pleased to receive the information that
for the last 14 days a train has been leaving daily for Treblinka with
5,000 members of the chosen people, and that in this way we are in a
position to carry out this population movement at an accelerated tempo.
I myself have made contact with the offices involved, so that smooth
accomplishment of the entire measure appears to be guaranteed."
(December 28, 1943)
"This raises some very difficult moral questions," stated by Elizabeth Holtzman, a former U.S. congresswoman and one of the authors of the war crimes declassification law. "Was this the beginning of an effort to protect Nazi war criminals after the war?"
Here are some interesting facts:
1.) SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff was known as the
chocolate soldier as some officers (particularly Waffen-SS) considered
that he always had the soft option posting.
2.) Wolff was also considered by some to have been a bit of a lackey to Himmler, just as Keitel was to Hitler.
3.) Wolff was very cautious about saying the wrong
thing. He had a wealth of information about Himmler and the SS, which
he took to his grave in Chiemsee where he also lived.
4.) His first wife, Frieda, lived in Rottach-Eggern
on the Tegernsee and was still there just after the war. At first, she
refused to agree to a divorce and wrote to Himmler pleading for his
support. Himmler agreed and did not relent until a few years later.
5.) The only good publication in existence depicts
Wolff and his military career at the present time is in German: "Der
Adjutant" by Jochen von Lang, 1985. This is a very good study of Wolff
and contains many photos never seen before.
Personally, I know the man with his full uniform and
most of his medals. There is a German cross in silver with these items,
but not one in gold. I can provide photos of these items as well. Would
it not make more sense for Wolff to have the DK in silver? I personally
think this sounds more like his career, even though he was commander of
military forces in Italy. Another point I would like to make is that he
was not awarded the RK, and I have never heard or seen otherwise.
Thanks for your time.
deze
site herhaalt de bovenstaande versie en komt trouwens van de zelfde
bron maar hier vinden we ook een psychiatrisch rapport van Wolff dat
natuurlijk op verschillende manieren kan worden geïnterpreteerd;m Het
dateert van 7mei 1946 en beweert dat deze jongen zich als de
toekomstige leider van Duitsland ziet wat niet zo gek lijkt als de
bovenstaande feiten juist zijn. Hij kan dan inderdaad zulke dingen
gedacht hebben of het kwam de Amerikanen net goed uit hem volledig
kierewiet te verklaren...
SS (Schutzstaffel of the NSDAP and Reich police and security services)
Fuehrer of the SS: Adolf Hitler
Reichsfuehrer-SS: Heinrich Himmler (also Chief of Police in the Interior Ministry)
Chief of staff: Karl Wolff
en als we deze nogal onwelriekende website die
naziparafernalia aan de man tracht te brengen mogen geloven dan was
onze Wolff (met twee FF'en en niet zoals hiert vermeld met één enkele F
een eminent lid van de 'inner circle" van de SS ...en lees dus ook maar
aandachtig wie de financiers waren van deze vrolijke bende SS'ers!
DESCRIPTION: This is certainly the scarcest ring that has
ever surfaced and probably the most prestigious. The organization that
these rings represented was the very group that made it possible for
the SS to become as huge and prominent as it did. The major industrial
groupings in Germany paid close attention to the political events and
stirrings in Germany with an eye to which group would be best suited to
stabilize the nation in the aftermath of the World War and the attempt
at revolution by the reds. The NSDAP and especially the SS organization
looked like they were the only action groups that could and would
achieve the objectives that these giants of industry desired. The Nazis
with socialist in its title was construed as actual antisocialist in
at least opposing the leftist socialists and thus was the vehicle
chosen to realize the aims of big business. The liaison man for the
heavy industry and junker landowners was Wilhelm Keppler. He was the
official representative for the industrialists and bankers. Himmler
introduced Keppler to Adolf Hitler and the circle of business advisors whom Keppler founded for the Führer in May 1932 later became the Freundeskreis RFSS--Circle of Friends of the Reichsführer-SS, and they contributed huge sums annually to the SS. Members of the circle were officials of IG Farben, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, BMW, Daimler Benz, and the worlds largest building combine, Philip Holzmann. It is said that the Freundeskreis,
along with the old army, were the hidden wire-pullers behind the Night
of the Long Knives (the assassination of Ernst Rohme and his
conspirators). Just after Rohmes dramatic elimination by the SS, much
larger sums of support money was forthcoming. At the end of the Reichsparteitag
(party rally) in the autumn of 1934, just after the bloody resolution
of the Rohme crisis, the members of the RFSS were invited to Nuremberg
and put up at the Grand Hotel as guests of the Reichsführer.
Himmlers adjutant, Karl Wolf, played host as he did in succeeding
years. Among those many bankers and industrialists present was von Halt
of Deutsche Bank, Meyer of the Dresdener Bank, Reinhart of the
Commerzbank, and Olscher of the Credit Bank. The list of heavy-industry
participants is quite long: Bosch, Siemans, Lindsmann of Nord Deutscher
Lloyd, Helfferich of the Hamburg-American Line, and numerous other
household names from the giant conglomerates. The importance of the
RFSS was profound? SS salaries were supplemented by the funds of the
Circle. Vehicles that were necessary such as cars, motorcycles, and
even armored vehicles, offices, SS quarters, and very importantly the
Order Castle at Wewelsburg were directly paid for out f the annual
stipend to the Reichsführer. The very expensive programs of the Deutsche Ahnenerbe
(Office of the Ancestral Hermitage) was supported, if not entirely
funded, by the RFSS. The expeditions to search for or restore sites
supposed to be old Germanic settlements or shrines burial grounds, etc,
were extremely costly indeed even to the point of sending large teams
of researchers to Tibet to trace the beginnings of the Indo-Germanic
race. The friends came through, however. The salary of the Reichsführer,
and his estates, of course, had to be funded by the Circle to include
his villa called Lindenfycht at Gmund am Tegernsee. So it is evident
that the formation of this benevolent group was the nucleus of the SS
that couldnt have survived without it. Now as to the ring: At the
meetings at Nuremberg that we have mentioned special attention was
given to these honored guests--the industrialists, bankers, shipping
magnates, etc. Our late contact in Germany, the elderly jeweler (see About Our Rings
that we bought so much jewelry from at Stuttgart told us just about in
each case what the particular piece was used for and what group it was
to be sent to. He told us that the particular ring was very special and
that it was ordered in various quantities by Himmlers adjutant, SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolf and he ordered these rings just before the annual Parteitag
in Nuremberg. This was considered our mans roughest order since this
was not just a matter of putting the metal dies in operation, but also
these rings had to be hand engraved as per order. This never
gave him enough time to complete the orders, but he always managed to
and later he made up several in advance to meet the needs of the SS.
Here is the difference with this magnificent SS ring and the reason it
is so rare. The rings were individually crafted and our jeweler had to
call in a special engraver to finish each one separately. The design
was typical of the art trends that were in vogue in the 1930s. The
craftsmanship and savoir faire elegance portrayed in this simple yet
refined design was eminently characteristic of the style of the German
landed gentry and their penchant in artistic expression. But basically
it was a fairly simple yet substantial piece of jewelry. Fact emerges
that this was to be a special gift to the honored attendees at the RFSS
Conference and presented by Wolf or at times, Himmler, himself. Thus,
besides the honor ring of the SS, this piece becomes the only other
ring that could be considered an issue ring and it came to be known as
the RFSS ring. The question asked at this point is to be expected: Why
would the SS leadership present such a rather humble piece of jewelry
in silver rather than in gold? These rings were presented to men who
could afford to have platinum rings with huge diamond insets. The
answer: The Reichsführer-SS Himmler hated gold. He considered
the metal to be The leaven of the Jews! Silver represented purity in
the Nordic and Aryan sense and their was even a directive to the extent
that except for family wedding rings, SS men were prohibited from
wearing gold jewelry. This went for their wives, as well. Himmler was
adamant in this and the directive was picked up by other party
functionaries as well, and you will seldom see a ring in gold in any of
the German services. The exception is the Luftwaffe because Reichsmarschal
Göring loved this precious metal and was not intimidated by Himmlers
order. So, in fact, these rings became the official gift to the members
of the Freundeskreis and are today considered one of the most
prodigiously sought-after relics of the Third Reich. Before
successfully buying this collection we have only heard of two of these
RFSS rings showing up in Europe in the 1960s and one 20 years ago in
the U.S. The prices they brought were serious, even back then. We were
bowled over when we were able to buy these and to actually meet the
designer, himself. The rings are in genuine heavy silver and are rather
large in design. The rings are marked inside the shank '835.' This
stands for the silver content . The SS in the center is surrounded by
deep, fine, black enamel. The top, which is the size of an elongated
dime, is separately affixed. The rings are in practically mint
condition having never been worn. They were what he had in the bench
bins at the end of the war. He was extremely proud of these and
although we paid a pretty standardized price for most of the other
great items, we had to pay a premium for these particular rings. They
are in a word special and we are markedly proud to offer this, this magnificent ring of the RFSS.
PRICE: $735.00
Het ganse verhaal van Karl Wolff is eveneens terug te vinden in deze studie:
Conspiracy of Silence: How the "Old Boys" of American Intelligence Shielded SS General Karl Wolff from Prosecution1
en die zelfde Wolff zette nog iedereen een neus toen hij de valse dagboeken van Hitler een echtheidstempel meegaf...een echt crapuul dus tot de laatste snik...
ik dacht vandaag ergens in de Verenigde staten te wonen waar rond deze
tijd van het jaar de traditionele filmbeelden met sneeuwruimende
mensen en ondergedolven auto's worden gedraaid om ons een veilig gevoel
te geven dat het hier allemaal toch wel een stuk beter wonen is. Deze
keer was ik zelf de sneeuwschoppende sukkel samen met de rest van mijn
straat trouwens. Merkwaardig ook hoe op zulke momenten meteen terug de
eerste tekenen van solidartiteit opduiken. De beter te been zijnde
medemens ruimt de sneeuw bij de minder goed te been zijnde. En al mijn
burten blijken mij plots terug bij de voornaam te kennen. Kopenhagen is
misschien mislukt omdat daar geen sneeuw te ruimen viel. Anders hadden
ze wel eenb gemeenschappelijke tekst goedgekeurd gekregen. Denk ik
tenminste. Omdat het met de rug natuurlijk wat minder goed gaat gezien de vele uren ruimen zal er vandaag weinig nieuws zijn. Als
je dan nog moet vernemen dat NV-A de derde partij in Vlaanderen wordet
en Bert De Wever de populairste politicus dan verkiezen we het absolute
stilzwijgen. Vandaag toch.
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Shanghai, 20 dec. Met onmiddellijke ingang mogen Chinese internetters geen
eigen, persoonlijke website hebben als zij geen officieel geregistreerde
ondernemer zijn.
De beslissing de greep van de overheid op het snel uitdijende Chineestalige
internet te verstevigen werd aangekondigd door het Chinese Internet
Netwerkinformatiecentrum, een tak van het Ministerie van Informatie.
De nieuwste maatregel werd meteen fel bekritiseerd op het Chineestalige
internet. Op Sina.com werd geconcludeerd dat geleidelijk aan alle
persoonlijk websites zullen verdwijnen en dat het voor individuen die
digitale bedrijven willen oprichten heel moeilijk zal worden. Ook bestaande
bedrijven als BT China, een betaalde film- en videosite, en Very CD, moeten
waarschijnlijk sluiten.
Officieel is het doel van de maatregel de verspreiding van porno en het
illegaal downloaden van muziek, films en tv-shows tegen te gaan. Van de
bestaande 16,8 miljoen persoonlijke websites zijn er al 700 stilgelegd. Er
zijn 3000 internetters gearresteerd op verdenking porno te hebben verspreid.
en 3000 Chinese geile rukkers die nu in heropvoedingskampen gratis
mogen werken aan de productie van allerlei voor het rijke westen
bestemde prullaria is toch mooi meegenomen! Alleszins beter dan pornosites op te richten
Na de nepfoto's waarmee Berlusconi zich tegen zijn eigen madam
verdedigde zou nu ook de ganse zaak van de aanval in Milaan met een
replicadommetje op de grote Italiaanse nar doorstoken kaart zijn. Dit
zou natuurlijk wel verklaren waarom de bodyguards zo lang hebben
gewacht om hem weg te halen van de plaats van de aanval. Bovendien
blijkt uit een nauwkeurige analyse dat berlusconi na de aanval
ogenblikkelijk een zakdoek in de hand had en deze voor het gelaat hield
toen hij in de auto stapte om dan na een tijdje weer te verschijnen
voor het publiek en de fotografen met zijn bebloed gezicht. Dat levert
natuurlijk een schat van foto's op genoeg om iemend definitief tot
martelaar uit te roepen. Er stellen zich nogal wat mensen de vraag hoe
komt het dat het bloed al zo snel gestolt was ofr was het misschien
nepbloed?
We namen dit verhaaltje niet zo maar over van één of
ander marginaal blog dat zich hiermee wil interessant maken. Het staat
in de Corriere della Sera die toch de grootste krant van Italië is en
niet bekend staat om roddel te verspreiden...
Berlusconi, su Internet la «tesi del complotto». Pdl e Pd: assurdo
In un video montate immagini per dimostrare la teoria dell«autoattentato»
Un'immagine del video sull'aggressione al premier
ROMA Si intitola «L'aggressione a Berlusconi una montatura?», (guarda il video)
è partito da YouTube e sta facendo il giro del web, diventando il
vessillo del partito del complotto. Cioè il fronte di chi pensa che la
tragedia delle Torri gemelle sia nata in seno alla Casa Bianca e che,
allo stesso modo, Massimo Tartaglia sia stato assoldato da Palazzo
Chigi. La tesi dellautoattentato va alla grande, su Internet. Dove si
sfida il senso del ridicolo parlando dei fatti di piazza del Duomo
come di un «11 settembre allitaliana».
Il video più gettonato, rilanciato da Facebook e
visto in poche ore da trecentomila utenti, è stato realizzato montando
le immagini di Rainews 24 e va rimbalzando dai siti giustizialisti a
quelli dei movimenti, scatenando migliaia di commenti e gettando legna
sul fuoco dellantiberlusconismo. Laggressione del Duomo non sarebbe,
insomma, che una «manipolazione mondiale per prendere il controllo di
Internet». Il filmato è diviso in due parti, dura circa otto minuti ed
è corredato da musica thriller e infografiche in rosso. Lautore, che
non si rivela, utilizza il fermo immagine col dichiarato intento di
portare a galla i «piccoli e grandi particolari», i «dubbi» e le
«incongruenze » che tormentano i radical anti-Silvio. Perché il
sangue, invece di sgorgare fluido e abbondante, appare «magicamente
coagulato»? Cosè il «misterioso» oggetto che uno dei body-guard tiene
in mano allinterno dellauto? Non sarà mica una «bomboletta che
spruzza sangue finto»?
Tutte «scempiaggini», prende nettamente le distanze Beppe Fioroni,
responsabile Welfare del Pd. «Ma smettiamola... Se la riproduzione del
Duomo lo colpiva sulla tempia il premier poteva morire e qui
Fioroni parla da medico . Ma quale complotto! Il confronto politico
rimanga nellambito della saggezza». Intanto però, un click dopo
laltro, il filmato che sprona «spegnete la tv accendete il cervello»
irretisce migliaia di sostenitori. «Questo video mostra la verità!!!
scrive su YouTube MrBrasco80 . Non facciamo gli ipocriti!!! E la
camicia piena di sangue che hanno detto al tg dove sta?». Fake407
invece non ci crede e racconta che a lui hanno rotto il naso con un
pugno, «ma neanche una goccia di sangue».
Il video arriva dopo laffondo del presidente del Senato Renato Schifani contro
i social network, paragonati ai gruppi extraparlamentari degli anni
70. E certo non è sfuggito allentourage del presidente del Consiglio.
«Ho visto qualcuno di questi video conferma Daniele Capezzone e
siamo dinanzi a qualcosa che definirei microterrorismo ». Non sarà
troppo? «Io ci vedo la stessa furia ideologica di chi usa la violenza,
ma in più la miseria di fare tutto nella propria stanzetta, negando
levidenza e illudendosi perfino di fare uninchiesta attacca il
portavoce del Pdl . Vigliacchi, falsificatori e illusi». Se non
parlassimo di «una cosa drammatica» Capezzone si metterebbe a ridere:
«Si lamentano perché Berlusconi sanguinava poco, se siamo arrivati a
questo punto...».
