In a message dated 9/21/00 9:19:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
retroman@turbont.net writes:
<< Roman Catholics, so far as I know, were not welcome in the SS. Indeed, many
Catholics wound up in concentration camps. >>
My understanding is that since the SS racial standards was that there was to
be no Jewish blood in any SS man for the previous 250 years. Other then that
there was to be no other qualification. Both Hitler and SS Chief Himmler
were, at least born as Roman Catholics. Himmler was said to have used his
Jesuitical expericence as a young man into developing the hierarchy of the
SS. My guess is also that there actual philosophical orientation was a hodge
podge of Nordic fantasies, racism, mysticism, and hatred. The Churches of
that period were wont to hold their noses at such discrepencies as long as
the Churches could preach and proselyitze, unlike in the Soviet system.
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