An article the church insisted be included.
"It is understood that the Church retains the right to levy church taxes."
An article Hitler insisted upon in exchange.
"Before the bishops take possession of their dioceses they are to take an oath of loyalty either to the Reich governor of the State (Land) concerned [one of Hitler's Nazis subfuehrers] or the President of the Reich [Hitler] respectively."
Here is what the perpetually wise and saintly Pacelli said at the occasion.
"Something has been created by a determined use of the general situation under God's benevolent and gracious help. If it is implemented in an equally loyal way it will prove to be a blessing to the church as well as to the state, and can protect immortal souls from the infinitely many dangers which we have all faced, even yesterday, with trembling hearts."
You know how on The Daily Show they run a clip of some pol or pundit making a claim as though it's God's truth, and then they run another clip of the same person just as ardently saying to opposite awhile back and you wonder how said person could be so dumb ass when it is so easy to show him up? How can the pro-Pacelli crowd be so dumb ass as to claim that Pacelli "constantly warned the world of the horrors of Nazism" when it is so easy to expose as a bald faced lie? According to Pacelli the future Vicar of Christ that many want to make a saint, thought that God thought the agreement was a good thing. Catholic apologists pretend that the church signed the treaty that Pacelli and his church had desperately strived for only with great reluctance. Actually, a celebratory mass was held at the Cathedral in Berlin, with Nazis and Church officials hobnobbing and making speeches, hymns and Nazis songs sung, and Catholic flags mixed with swastikas. Church defenders try to justify the perversion two ways. Sometimes they claim that the church and Pacelli did not fully realize the danger of Hitler -- but those who claimed to serve the one true God could read Mein Kampf like anyone else, and Hitler was as openly opposed to democracy as was the church. Apologists also, and contrarily, claim that the moves of Pacelli and company was a last ditch attempt by the church to protect itself from the vile monster their party had for some reason just voted to make dictator. Not only was the German Concordat the dream that Weimer had democratically denied Rome, its contents were dreadfully pathological. For the Concordat was a morally depraved deal with the devil. It explicitly stated that the church would continue to receive the tax revenue transfers from the Reich treasury that Hitler paid into every year of his rule, albeit on two conditions.
One was the disbanding of the Zentrum in the emerging one party state. Excusers pretend this was only done with the deep regret of Rome, and under the threat of Nazis brutality (apparently largely due to hyper-radical party elements Hitler would later purge to church approval as per below), but the actual opinion of many top Catholics is exposed by the verging on giddy statement issued by the party upon its demise at their new Fuhrer's command.
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