Author Topic: The Catholic Church and smuggling of nαzι's after WWII (Read 1293 times)

LeDeg · « **on:** January 19, 2018, 03:49:05 PM »

Historian Uki Goni, in his 2002 book The Real Odessa: Smuggling the nαzιs to Peron’s Argentina, docuмents that in 1946 Juan Peron sent secret word to France that nαzι officials facing prosecution at home would find a welcoming haven in Argentina. The “Odessa” theory, popularized in the 1972 novel The Odessa File and 1974 movie of the same name, was that a secret group of former SS officers had banded together and was helping former nαzι officials to escape post-war Europe. While there was no “Odessa” group, the truth was far stranger: some of the most senior officials in governments, the Catholic church and aid organizations actively worked to help nαzιs escape, often sending them to South America.
Peron’s key point man in creating a pipeline for nαzιs was the Argentinian Cardinal Antonio Caggiano. He passed along Peron’s top-secret message to a Cardinal in France, who communicated with nαzιs living in France, helping usher them to Argentina. Peron invested considerable manpower in smuggling nαzιs to Argentina, even setting up a secret office in Bern to help handle the paperwork. In Spring 1946, the first French nαzιs began receiving Argentinian tourist visas and setting sail for South America.

Alois Hudal

Many of these nαzιs escaping to South America were aided by Catholic officials. Some merely wanted to help Catholics escape from the rising Communist governments in central Europe. Other officials, however, were actively anti-Semitic and desired to help nαzιs escape. One of the highest ranking Catholic officials who aided nαzιs was Bishop Alois Hudal, an Austrian-born admirer of Hitler. Bishop Hudal worked in Rome, ministering to Axis POWs, and tirelessly aided nαzι's by providing them with false Vatican-issued identity papers allowing them to gain passports from the International Red Cross and travel to South America.

Bishop Hudal worked with a network of officials throughout Europe; it was he, with the aid of a Franciscan friar in Italy, who provided false papers that allowed senior nαzι Adolf Eichmann to sail for Argentina. Hudal’s activities helping refugees (many of whom were nαzιs) garnered him much praise and financial support. The American Catholic Bishops Conference even approved a monthly stipend of $200 to Bishop Hudal to help him in his work.
The work of Bishop Hudal and other Catholic officials to help nαzιs flee was an open secret. A 1947 memo sent from the United States’ Italian embassy noted that “The Vatican of course is the largest single organization involved in the movement of emigrants” out of Europe in those years.
Bishop Hudal and other Catholic officials had a willing accomplice in Carl Jacob Burckhardt, President of the International Red Cross in the years after World War II. In his 2011 book nαzιs on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice, historian Gerald Steinacher chronicles Burckhardt’s anti-Semitism, as well as his penchant for helping Germans, including former nαzιs. It’s hard to know just how many former nαzιs fled Europe using false Red Cross papers; in 2012, German lawyers, after examining recently declassified archives, estimated that thousands of nαzιs were similarly able to obtain false Red Cross passports. About 800 SS members were able to flee to Argentina alone using these false docuмents.

One nαzι who fled to Argentina was Horst Wagner. Wagner’s story would have remained unknown were it not for the efforts of German family therapist turned author Gisela Heidenreich, whose mother Edith met and fell in love with Horst Wagner during the war. In 2012, Ms. Heidenreich published a work docuмenting Wagner’s escape, Beloved Criminal: A Diplomat in the Service of the Final Solution. After escaping from an Allied-run jail in 1948, Wagner followed a path dubbed the “Kloster Line”, receiving sanctuary in convents and churches in Austria before heading to Rome. There, Bishop Hudal helped him obtain false papers and sail to Argentina.
Franz Stangl, the commander of the camps of Sobibor and Treblinka, was another senior nαzι Ms. Heidenreich uncovered who followed the same path. Stangl was aided by Catholic church officials and eventually fled to Brazil on a false Red Cross passport. Stangl was eventually extradited to Germany in the 1960s and died in jail. Wagner met a different fate: he was never extradited and lived to old age in the Argentinian town of Bariloche, near Patagonia where he celebrated at weekly get-togethers in local beer halls, singing nαzι songs with other SS comrades who called Argentina home.
In addition to being ideologically sympathetic to nαzι ideology, Juan Peron also had a financial motive in bringing so many nαzιs to his country. In 2005, drawing on government archives that had just been declassified, German journalist Gaby Weber found that Peron systematically used his government to launder money belonging to nαzι-owned companies, whose profits would otherwise have been seized as part of criminal investigations. In The German Connection: The Laundering of nαzι Money in Argentina, Ms. Weber estimates that value of the money laundering operation at well over one billion dollars.

These were great Catholic heroes against the Zionist's. I applaud their efforts

Incredulous · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2018, 03:46:43 PM »

Looks like there was a major split in Vatican policy?

The Vatican is said to have printed fake passports to get the Jєωs into safe territories, while commie "Uncle Joe" Stalin escaped papal criticisms.

It is estimated that the actions of Pius XII directly led to the saving of 800,000 Jєωιѕн lives during the war. The estimate of 800,000 Jєωιѕн lives is based upon the testimony of the post-war government of the recently created State of Israel which recognized and honored that pope’s contribution. The Israelis recognized the figure and a forest of as many trees was planted in commemoration in the Negeb, SE of Jerusalem, and was shown to Pope Paul VI with some ceremony on his first state visit to Israel. Rev. Fr. Jean Charles-Roux, now a Rosininian priest living in London and whose father was French Ambassador to the Holy See in the 30’s, lived with his family in Rome during the fateful pre-war period. He recalls that the Pope told his father as early as 1935 that the new regime in Germany was “diabolical.”

Catholic League link

LeDeg · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2018, 07:01:00 PM »

Quote from: Incredulous on January 21, 2018, 03:46:43 PM

Looks like there was a major split in Vatican policy?

The Vatican is said to have printed fake passports to get the Jєωs into safe territories, while commie "Uncle Joe" Stalin escaped papal criticisms.

It is estimated that the actions of Pius XII directly led to the saving of 800,000 Jєωιѕн lives during the war. The estimate of 800,000 Jєωιѕн lives is based upon the testimony of the post-war government of the recently created State of Israel which recognized and honored that pope’s contribution. The Israelis recognized the figure and a forest of as many trees was planted in commemoration in the Negeb, SE of Jerusalem, and was shown to Pope Paul VI with some ceremony on his first state visit to Israel. Rev. Fr. Jean Charles-Roux, now a Rosininian priest living in London and whose father was French Ambassador to the Holy See in the 30’s, lived with his family in Rome during the fateful pre-war period. He recalls that the Pope told his father as early as 1935 that the new regime in Germany was “diabolical.”

Catholic League link

If the Vatican failed to criticize Stalin, what does that tell you? Smacks of the Communism omission at Vatican II.

Author Topic: The Catholic Church and smuggling of nαzι's after WWII (Read 1293 times)

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