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The alignment of the oligarchs with (as*) fascists and Christians.
Gee where have we seen that before
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-01-adfg-austria1-story.html
Dozens of documents -- many from parish archives -- include:
* A chillingly dispassionate entry dated Nov. 26, 1942, from the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, which skims over the mass deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps by noting that over one year, “33 transports of 1,000 each have gone to Poland.”
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* Influential Jesuit Mario von Galli described Jews as “God’s murderers” who deserve persecution. In 1940, as Gypsies started joining the Jews on death trains packed to the suffocation point, the Vienna archdiocese urged all parishes to do their utmost to “combat the Gypsy chaos”...
* Rural priest Franz Mandl, in a lectern-thumping speech, called Hitler “the greatest human being” -- one of dozens of priests who were documented praising the Nazi dictator
Maria, 85, who refuses to give her full name, recalls that her parish priest in Hitler’s boyhood city of Linz rang the bells to celebrate Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938. Three years later, she says, he exhorted parishioners from the pulpit against “the godless Bolsheviks” as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
^ The above was nationwide. Anschluss was welcomed by Austrian Catholic Church.
See: Neuroscientist Eric Kandel's autobio.
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