I am amazed that so many of the respondences to my original question want to suggest that Catholics weren't targeted by Hitler.  Yet that is a documented fact. Hitler feared the power of the Roman Catholic Church.  I can't believe it is not known how many Catholics were killed during this time period soully because they were Catholic.  Where as it is true that the Pope at this time did not publicaly condem the Jewish exterination within Europe, it doesn't mean Catholic Perishioners didn't risk their life fighting this practice. All I want to know is how many Catholics were murdered by Hitler due to the fact that they were Catholic.  I don't feel that this question and the ascociated number takes anything away from the atrocities performed on the Jewish people of Europe, I simply want to know the facts of what occured during this time period.
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It is only right to place the Jews first on the list of the Nazis' victims.\n\nHowever millions of Catholics and other Christians were also killed. No one knows exactly how many. I've seen claims of up to 42,000,000 but I could not find documentation for this number.\n\nAlso remember most the the allied military dead were Christians.
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The Catholic Church did as much as it could at that time.  Some of the parish priests even gave their own monies.  This was a horrible time and it was before modern technology.  And, all the advances that we have today.  \n\nWhy don't you check this website out:\nhttp://www.vincenter.org/97/kerr.html\n\nBTW, Didn't Jesus say "LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR", wasn't that a COMMANDMENT or something?  What, did Jesus say to just love those people you like...or love whenever you feel like it unless it goes against your beliefs? NO, he said to even love your enemy.  I believe that defination is pretty broad.
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The Romans murdered Jesus, not Roman Catholics.\nRomans were people who, basically, lived in Rome. The Jews didn't directly kill Jesus, but they did ask the Roman leader, Pontius Pilate, to kill Jesus. So they kinda had a hand in it.\nbut the Catholics didn't do it.\n\nRoman Catholics are called that because the Catholic Church is also known as the Church of Rome. It's called the church of Rome because the Vatican (Catholic HQ) is in Rome. The Catholic HQ is in Rome, because that is where Peter (St. Peter, the one in the bible) was killed.
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I've read your response to the previous question which I also answered.\n\nMy official position is this:\n\nThe Roman Catholic Church (RCC) and most (not all) of its followers are Christians by name only.\n\nThe RCC is responsible for the most atrocious/barbaric acts in history (The Crusades, the Inquisitions and the subjugation of many countries by the cross and the sword).  The Y!A participant with a German Shepherd avatar knows what I'm talking about (i.e. - Philippine history).\n\nThe RCC turns a blind eye to the crimes committed by its priests (pedophilia and homosexuality which are current and undeniable events).\n\nFinally, from personal experience, my RC grandparents were murdered by their own RC sons and daughters.  They were never arrested and charges were never filed because they were influential members of the RCC and they were the biggest financial contributors and they basically owned the town I lived in.
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You're on the right track my friend, however your mind has not yet been awakened.  Why is this amazing?  Do you believe that the Nazis did not live a "normal" life while they were engaged in their goal of world domination?  How can you take over the world if you don't seem "normal"?  You need people to follow you, don't you?  There must be some "normality" in your vision to create a base following and to attract others.  Religion is a "normal" part of human existance, there is no reason to believe that the Nazi party did not in some way include religion in their schemes.\n\nNow that you've opened your eyes a little, you need to start educating yourself on what Hitler's image actually was.  You have been brain washed for years to believe he was this vicious monster and have forgotten he was just a man.  His aspirations were monsterous, but his day to day life was nothing different than any other leader of a civilized country.  \n\nIf you watch videos of Germany in the Nazi times, the people look happy, confident in their leader and excited about the course of their country.  They didn't think Hitler was a "monster" uncapable of going to church or living "normal"!\n\nIs this different than any onther leader?\n\nWhat you need to understand is, yes, he was a monster, however he didn't achieve his goals because he was stupid.  The man was not a cartoon character who would show up at speeches with blood on his face while sacrificing Jews in public like history would want you to believe!\n\nSo, I ask again, why would your pictures be amazing?\n\nNow, what you need to do is open up your eyes one more step.  If Hitler seemed "normal" at the time, and his people followed him into unjust wars and killing of innocent people, who does that remind you of?\n\nHilter\n\n1 burned down Germany's equivalent to the White House and blamed it on the Jews\n\n2 rounded up Jews and Communists "responsible" for the arson\n\n3 passed the Deutchland Act allowing him to go to war with any country and have full power over the gov't\n\n4 created a "homeland security" which we know as the Gistapo\n\n5 invading other countries to "protect" Germany\n\n6 implemented ID cards to "protect" Germany\n\n\nThis is where I stop for now, because this is as far as we've gotten here in the US.  We are now at ID cards being implemented by our gov't  to "protect" us from immigration!\n\nBush is a monster and history will prove this, however for now he is a "normal" Christian who fits in with society.\n\nI hope you now understand why your pictures are not amazing!
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Jim, I understand just what you mean. I post scripture after scripture here proving what a barbaric piece of crap their invisible friend is, and they just don't get it. \n\nIncidentally, you probably already know this, but Hitler was a Roman Catholic. Every year on his birthday, Hitler received a note from the Arch Bishop of Germany by order of the Vatican. \n\nThe beliefs of the SS were preached alongside the Bible at worship services. Hitler also incorporated many church laws as secular law. He abolished abortion in Germany, and enacted many corporal punishments based on church law.\n\nHitler was never condemned by the Vatican. In fact, the church supported his killing of innocent men, women, and children of Jewish descent, because the Vatican (at that time) believed the Jews to be responsible for the death of Jesus. They also supported his killing of homosexuals.\n\nThe sad, simple truth is that Hitler was a monster, who was created and groomed by the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, the Christian revisionists cannot face the facts in the matter and lay the blame where it truely lies. On the preaching of Jesus Christ and Jehovah as the path to salvation.\n\nIt is far easier to deny the truth than accept it, which seems to be the general theme of Christianity. \n\n-SD-
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Many of the successes of the Jewish people, in business, were a direct result of Christian Antisemitism.\n\nJews were forbidden to participate in most jobs, so the few they were allowed tto do they were very successful t.  In addition, the Catholic Church passed laws to keep the Jews from becoming to prosperous, and it had the opposite effect.\n\nThat Catholic Church was pretty stupid in those days!\n\nJeffrey
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We remember so that we don't let history repeat itself.  Hitler was a great Orator who used his ability of speach giving to build up the Nazi party and eventually take control of Germany.  He was a Corporal in World War I and was devistated by the German Loss of the war as well as the terms of the surrender. He built an army with youth clubs and an Airforce out of Flying Clubs as Germany was restricted as to the number in each by the treaty of Versalles.  He built a strong organization of Secret Police and held a real tight reign on the people of Germany as well as the Annexed areas of Europe that were conceeded to him.\n\nOf course World War II started in 1939 when Hitler took Poland in about 3 weeks time and turned around and marched through France in 6 weeks.  The Europe war lasted until May 8, 1945.  The U.S. fought with Japan until September, 1945.\n\nBefore and during World War II Hitler dreamed of a society led by the German Aryan Race, he set out a plan to help produce more purity in Europe with his "Final Solution".  He was responsible for the genocide extermination of 6,000,000 Jews, as well as many Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses. He used most of these people before their extermination as slave labor for his war machine.  He was so adamant about the extermination of the Jews that he used resources such as Rail Roads that could have moved troops to the Russian front to move Jews to Extermination Camps.  All of the "Concentration Camps" also required much manpower that could have been put to use in the war effort.  By the end of the War Hitler was ordering troops that did not exist into battle.  He was quite ill with Parkinsons Disease and extremely paranoid of all germs and of course plots against his life.  He died by committing suicide so that he could not be taken alive.  His vast empire had collapsed into 3 square blocks when he finally died and the Germans continued to fight for a little over a week after his death.\n\nHitler needs to be remembered because of his "Racist" ideas and where they lead.  We need to remember what happened to all the people who died in what was probably the largest effort at genocide to date.  He built killing factories to do this work and it must be remembered so that we do not ever allow this thing to happen again in this world.  I believe that his failures in life were probably his greatest influence.  He spent around 2 years in prison after a failed revolt in 1923, during which time he wrote "Mein Kampf" in which he outlined his plans for Germany and his Master Race. The sales of this book made Hitler a Millionaire, which allowed him more time to spend on Politics and not have to worry about how to pay the bills.  His greatest Role Model was Benito Mussulini the Fascist Dictator of Italy, however later in the war it was Hitler that was the role model for Mussulini.\n\nThis is one page in history that we never want to see repeated and that is why we must remember Hitler.
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There was this guy,maybe you've herd of him; Adolf Hitler. Him and the members of the Nazi Party thought it was a good idea in Germany and some other sympathizers in America,Scandinavia and England to implement Eugenics laws. Nowadays, it's people like Shaun Walker and his buddies at the National Alliance. Essentially, kind of what you're suggesting. They didn't have a problem with sterilizing,beating,killing or sending someone to a death camp  who didn't look Nordic-Germanic. But, they thought it was fine for people who stole an item or food or looked too Semitic or Slavic to be sterilized and sent to Auschwitz or some other death slave camp. I don't know you well enough. But, somehow I think you're not as extreeme. I might be wrong. Amaizingly in modern America, on the other hand there are people like O,J Simpson,Charles Manson and the Menendez guy who killed his parents. They reproduced successfully because they had the right stuff; Looks,success,money or manipulation skills. Ever notice that women never write anything as remotely detailed about moral requirements in their personal ads compared to the pin point precision of hight and income requirements ? Obviously, those women were not thinking; " Hmm. I wonder if he's really a good person to have children with. " So, it starts with women first.They're the ones who make the final decision. I don't think O.J,Menendez,Hitler, or Manson would have a problem with an I.Q test or smooth talking their way to a woman or never mind  a parental screening exam. Some of you may think that Alcoholism,gambling addiction or various physical or mental handicaps are the problems. Think again. In Nazi Germany,kids that didn't join the Nazi youth groups were considered to be not properly brought up. If they weren't taught to hate .  Let's say a man passes a theoretical parent exam. Then he's drafted into an extended war like the Iraq war now. Then he kills some innoscent civilians like another family and returns home to his belved family. He's a murderer who passed the parental test and proceeds to have more of his own kids.
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The Holocaust was more than a Jewish event. Records kept by the Germans prove they exterminated millions of Communists, Czechs, Greeks, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, mentally and physically handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, Russians, Serbs, Socialists, Spanish Republicans, trade unionists, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians, prisoners of war of many nations, and still others whose identity may never be recognized. Their victims, according to one survivor of four different concentration camps, "were of some thirty nationalities, from Nepalese to Andorrans, and of a variety of racial and linguistic stocks ranging from Basques to Buriats and from Ladinos to Lapps". When people were not immediately exterminated, they were sent to work and/or concentration camps. There the prisoners were divided into six penal categories and given patches on their clothing for identification purposes. Ordinary criminals were assigned green; political prisoners wore red; black was worn by asocials (slackers, prostitutes, procurers, etc.); homosexuals wore pink; conscientious objectors wore purple, and the Jewish people wore yellow.\n\nOh and by the way Hitler was NOT of the jewish faith ... Hitler, himself, was a Catholic.
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I know a truly amazing woman who survived a concentrarion camp when she was 16-17.  It happened without a doubt.  And the numbers don't matter  If it was 300,00 it is still appalling.  It was not just Jews either.  Gypsys, homosexuals, physically and mentally disabled, anyone the Nazis consider undesirable were also targeted.
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You son of a b**ch!  I lost 17 members of my family in Buchenwald and I know many, many other Jewish people who also lost family members.  The Germans kept meticulous records and we know for a fact that the numbers are correct.  If you are a Muslim, then no explantion is needed for such hatred.  But if you are a Christian, then you are not following the tenets of your religion and you should be ostracized from the Christian community!
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I understand what you're saying...and yes, it is sad. There's an incredible amount of people out there, who are oblivious to the fact that it wasn't just Jews, but anyone who didn't fit Hitler's image for the "Master Race".\nI think Jews just made it easier for Hitler to pick out of the populace, with their willingness to put on the armbands, identifying them as Jews.\nBut, then again, who could possibly imagine that any one man could generate such blind loyalty and foster such hate, as to even be able to conduct his campaign of mass genocide.\nI think, that point alone, is absolutely horrifying.\nBut did we learn?  An old adage says that "those who don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it". And aren't there traces of that possibility still in the world today?
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He was the creator of the white supremist group the Nazi. He killed millions of Jewish people and people who where beleived to be Jewish but might not have been. He helped start World War 1 and World War 2. He discriminated against many races. Hitler was a horrible person thats why every one,including me, is mad at him. He killed millions of innocent people. Including some of his own people.
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I really like your questions you get right to the point yeah the only time Christians were persecuted was back in the Roman Empire. Ceasar was the first emperor to kill Christians and then Nero who killed Peter and Paul and set Christians on fire as torches to make light for his chariot races on Vatican Hill. That's basically the only time. In some countries now you have some killings but not major ones. The Jewish people went through a hell of a lot more. Especially with Hitler. I don't know why people whine so much. Everyone believes in something different deal with it you know. Just because you don't think it's right doesn't make it wrong. To them your religion may seem weird. I have studied all the major religions and find them quit interesting. I can see the point that they are coming across with. I think the people who want to be ignorant should go do some research before they open their mouths. GOOD POINT!!!!!you made.\n\n\n\nand Genesis...i think you are the one who has to do some research. I don't know where you got your ideas from but they are not right. Other religions do not kill you for caring around the bible, a few countries do but thats not persecution. Muslims kill other Muslims for converting Christianity. Muslims don't like Christianity for the fact they think the trinity refers to three different people.. they are monotheistic. They don't kill us for caring the bible. As a matter of fact your not even allowed in Mecca, their holy city without being Muslim. DO SOME RESEARCH GESH!!!!!! And Jewish people do not believe in Jesus, they just think he was a jewish guy. And they weren't killed because they believed in the true god. Hitler just didn't like them.\n\n\nFirst of all just because a couple of thousand Christians are killed in other countries doesn't make it persecution we kill thousands of people of different religions with hate groups that are supposedly Christians and they don't call it persecution they call it justification. Now 6 million Jews being killed I classify as persecution. Grow up people\n\nSanta Claus was based on a real person St. Nicholas he had lots of money and used to go around at night and throw money into the houses of poor people. They have just added a few things to it now but it's not a myth it actually happened.
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HAIL HITLER!!! I knew you were a Fascist. What's next killing the Pagans, the Devil Worshipers, the Unchristian and the Judeo Christians? WOW you must have big balls to suggest such a thing. I hope you don't run for office or there may be a lynching. I have one question for you? With all this hate, do you really think your name is your Gods Book?\n\nBright Blessings to all,\nCarlie
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There are quite a few facts in this book of fiction. The Catholic church definitely carried on a campaign against the old pagan folk beliefs. This was done over a period of several centuries from the time that Constantine adopted Christianity through the campaigns against witches (which continued under protestants in the Salem witch trials). The fourth and fifith centuries correspond to the time when orthodox Christianity (the Catholic church) was trying to fight both the Arians of Spain, but also the pagans of northern Europe and Germany. The number of people killed during these pogroms ishard to determine accurately.