Secret papers detail US aid for ex-Nazis

Yurt said:
lol...you need not trawl the web to make a "they did it too" thread

your entire first part of the OP was a they did it too argument
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The first sentence was my opinion and only someone as clueless as you could make the argument that government providing safe haven to Nazi criminals is equal to a 13-year old boy delivering notices to Jews. :palm:
 
Rana said:
Don't forget their favorite Pope, too! The Catholic Church was very guilty of looking the other way as a trade off, it sickens me.
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What are you talking about? I thought the Pope saved Jews????

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From 1941 to 1944, Pope Pius and the Catholic Church were responsible for saving more Jews from Nazi persecution than any other person or institution. Some Israeli scholars estimate that as many as 860,000 European Jews were saved from death through concealment in Church facilities, issuance of fake Baptismal certificates, public appeals and other methods. In one instance, Pius lent the Roman Jewish community part payment of a ransom demanded by the Nazis to save several hundred Roman Jews. Prior to becoming Pope, Pius negotiated a Concordat between the Vatican and Germany, which provided that Jews who had converted to Christianity would not be subject to persecution in Germany as Jews. This provision enabled local priests to save tens of thousands of Jews from deportation by issuing fake Baptism certificates. The World Jewish Congress, American Jewish community, Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem, Rome and Budapest, Golda Meir and many other prominent Jewish representatives praised Pius for his relief efforts and public denunciation of racial persecution. In August 2006 extracts from the 60-year-old diary of a nun of the Convent of Santi Quattro Coronati[185] were published in the Italian press, stating that Pope Pius XII ordered Rome's convents and monasteries to hide Jews during World War II.[186]
 
I think Rana was referring to Benedict XVI having been inducted into the Nazi Youth as a child. People like to conveniently forget that Ratzinger refused to go along with the indoctrination and managed to run away from it...
 
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