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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hitler’s Mufti, not Hitler’s Pope</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>by [Rabbi] David G. Dalin</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Posted Aug 3, 2005</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many readers of the New York Times no doubt believe
that Pope Pius XII was “Hitler’s Pope.” John Cornwell’s bestselling book told
them that, and it’s been reaffirmed by Garry Wills, Daniel Goldhagen and other
writers since. It’s been said so often in fact that most well-read liberals know
it for a certainty. The only trouble is: it isn’t true.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not only does it contradict the words of Holocaust
survivors, the founders of Israel, and the contemporary record of the New York
Times, but even John Cornwell, the originator of the phrase “Hitler’s pope,” has
recanted it saying that he was wrong to have ascribed evil motives to Pius and
now found it “impossible to judge” the wartime pope.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But there’s something else that has been ignored
nearly all together. Precisely at the moment when Pope Pius XII and the Catholic
Church in Rome (and throughout Europe) was saving thousands of Jewish lives,
Hitler had a cleric broadcasting from Berlin who called for the extermination of
the Jews.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He was Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the viciously
anti-Semitic grand mufti of Jerusalem, who resided in Berlin as a welcome guest
and ally of the Nazis throughout the years of the Holocaust.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>... more at <A
href="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8415">http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8415</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rabbi Dalin is a professor of history and political
science at Ave Maria University and is the author of The Myth of Hitler’s Pope
(Regnery). <BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--<BR>Stephen Korsman<BR><A
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">skorsman@theotokos.co.za</A><BR><A
href="http://www.theotokos.co.za">www.theotokos.co.za</A></FONT></DIV>
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