Come ho cercato di spiegare in "Santosepolcro", la posizione della Chiesa e del Santo Padre nei confronti del Negazionismo è sempre stata chiara e netta, e cioè di mera condanna. Le strumentalizzazioni mediatiche di questi giorni mi costringono ad un piccolo sunto di storia a riguardo i Cattolici in Germania all' avvento del nazionalsocialismo; nella convinzione assoluta che i Cattolici avrebbero seguito gli Israeliti nei Campi di Concentramento.
Nei mesi immediatamente susseguenti la presa del potere nazionalsocialista in Germania,si contrappose una forte tensione at the local level, where the authorities of the party "Consider, as before, Catholicism as one of their main enemies, from having to brute force him to level and renunciation of its independent existence." The first priests of the diocese of Regensburg to be arrested were Eugen Bauer, pastor of Schwarzhofen, and Joseph Breu of Posing, translated in prison after their houses were stormed by an angry mob and the windows shattered. Between the end of June and the first ten days of July were arrested twenty-one priests in the diocese of Speyer, six of which were ill-treated in prison, among them Heinrich Wildanger was brought to the prison spirit with a sign around her neck on which was written: "For years, instigated from the pulpit against the National Socialists' twenty-six escaped arrest by taking refuge in nearby Baden. Against the canonical Zell five shots were fired and stones thrown. To Stetten was made the subject of an attack with explosives. This state of tension was justified by the provincial president of the Palatinate, Osthelder with "popular mood explosion" caused by "instigators statements and actions of individual Catholic priests, especially in the fight for the maintenance of denominational schools." In their conduct of these demonstrations followed a fixed script, 'the popular mood "was stirred up during an assembly at conclusion of which several hundred people, mostly members of paramilitary organizations of the party, were detached house in front of the victim in office, which was threatened and insulted for hours before police intervened and stopped "because of its security. Often the "popular feeling" arranged to make even more manifest his "bad mood" destroying the windows of the rectory, the priest of the dwelling subject to the demonstration. The diplomatic note from the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pacelli, dated May 31, 1934, stressed that this so-called 'state of mind of mass "if only" the fruit methodically brought to maturity "of the propaganda organs of the state tends to present the German Catholics as" enemies of principle, opponents of the unit or worse. " Pace said that did not correspond "with the principles of leadership authoritarian state, which acts on its own responsibility, richiamansi a mood of mass formed in a manner so singular. The "state of mind" would soon be overcome, especially if the press organizations favored by the state, centrally driven, had ceased to stir up again and again. "Traunstein (Upper Bavaria), the 'popular sentiment Nazi" gave vent to their irritation against the pastor Stelzle shattering the glass windows of the six canonical. The situation worsened after a sermon of the priest himself against the Nazi neo-paganism, delivered January 6, 1934, as reported by a report of the master of the political police, because "the resulting irritation of the population, Stelzle, for his personal safety , had to be stopped. " Ordinariate following the refusal to grant the request to transfer to another parish Stelzle made by the Bavarian Ministry of the cult, April 24 the rectory was made the subject of an attack with explosives. Faulhaber, the archbishop raised the parish of Traunstein on a mini-interdict prohibiting that is, the solemn celebration of Masses, and the sound of bells and organ. New riots occurred when party members broke into the church and rang the bells themselves: in an attempt to defend the priest Mayer was slightly injured. The hard-line Faulhaber finally proved successful, and was allowed to return to Stelzle Traunstein.Josef Schabl and Johann Babli, respectively parish priest and curate of the village of Pilsting (Diocese of Regensburg, 1128 inhabitants) were particularly disliked by the authorities of state and Party acclaimed for their aversion to Nazism. Ordinariate to convince the bishop to move, the provincial president Holzschuher Kreisleiter and the NSDAP (National Socialist Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, National Socialist German Workers Party), Krahmer, organized a punitive expedition against the two priests. Participants in this action twenty-two SS from Landshut, eight and twelve Dingolfing SS from SA Eggenfeld, plus three Pilsting sole inhabitants of the parish priest came and waited, at about 0.15, the beaten, mistreated and then transported to Regensburg. The same fate befell Babli, who also remedied an eye injury due to crushing of the glasses. Following the "angry mob", as defined by Holzschuher in his report of December 8, destroyed more than two hundred windows of the rectory. The investigation of these facts, conduct by Attorney Landau, Gottlieb Kestel, were quick to highlight the responsibilities of local authorities. Holzschuher protested for the conduct of investigations, he said "one-sided and damaging to the State." Despite the "side events" consequence of the event, wrote the provincial president, "would not be compatible with sound sensitivity of the people if his party ended in the courts charged with serious crimes for the expression of popular opinion, though in a way typically low-Bavarian and perhaps a little rough. against two priests who have always acted as enemies of the State and who instigated the people to extremes. " On June 17, 1938 proceedings was suspended by order of the Minister of Justice. It was revised in 1947 and led to the conviction of Holzschuher Krahmer and one year imprisonment each, and other defendants to prison minors.
The Bavarian government reports denounce as most of the dissenting votes cast during the plebiscite on the unification of Austria to the Reich were attributable to the "ever-present influence of the clergy on the population." However, the absence of guarantees of secrecy of voting, those who voted negatively were made subject to the attentions of the 'healthy popular sensibility. " In fact it is reported from Regensburg that the 22 negative votes out of a total of 467 voters of the locality of Köfering (District of Regensburg) were caused by the local parish priest Alois Kron, "known as an agitator," against whose house the evening of April 10 stones were thrown and a bomb-paper. The negative vote of the parish priest of Reisbach (District Dingolfing), Maximilian Stangl, the Nazi people said raising a fork on the market square and hung on a puppet representing a priest. At the same time in the country appeared signs accusing Stangl and her domestic worker to be "traitors to the people." From Ansbach (Middle Franconia) is reported the case of the archpriest of Ornbau Gotz (Feuchtwangen District), who had done the previous evening bells ring the plebiscite in spite of the bishop's order. On the rectory and the house of the priest appeared written offensive, and were destroyed in five rounds of stones finestre.Il pastor of Fellbach (Diocese of Rottenburg, Wuerttemberg), Richard Sturm, reported in a letter to his Ordinary, after his vote against the plebiscite on the evening of April 10, a department of SA and SS had attacked the canon, shattered the windows with stones and beaten his vicar, although "he voted right." Tell Sturm: "I was seized and brought before the garden gate, after which it began to turn for Fellbach shouting slogans for about an hour and a half. I was constantly pushed from behind e di lato, così che caddi a terra tre, quattro, cinque volte. Fui colpito al volto, specialmente alla mascella. Mi sputavano in viso, e lo slogan era generalmente questo: “Ecco qui il traditone del popolo, parroco Sturm”. Per queste spinte e cadute andarono perduti e rotti i miei occhiali. Per tutto il tempo mi fu illuminato il volto con una lampada elettrica, così che non potevo vedere nulla. Veniva suonato uno squillo di tromba per attirare la gente».Il vescovo di Rottenburg, Johannes Maria Sproll, non si recò alle urne, affermando di essere favorevole all’unificazione dell’Austria at Reich, ma di non votare la lista unica per il Reichstag, come sempre unita al quesito plebiscitario. La sera successiva una nutrita group of demonstrators, instigated against the bishop at a meeting held at the Sporthalle, he came to the bishop's palace, and having cried for about an hour and a quarter slogans and insults against Sproll penetrated the building and took the flag with the swastika from the yard of the palace. The judiciary and the police refused to protect Sproll as "un-German bishop," not by listening to complaints and urgent requests for assistance from Ordinariate. On the evening of Friday, April 15 about a hundred people gathered again in front of the Bishop's Palace, shouting "Out with the traitor of the people ',' send him to Moscow," "the bishop deserves to be shot "and" the Jews were hanged, put the bishop on the wall. "After spending two months out of office by order of the Holy See returned to Sproll Rottenbung, July 15 made it and inform the Lieutenant of the Reich Murr. On the evening of July 16 raccoltesi a hundred people under the bishop's palace shouting slogans for about an hour, then broke through the front doors and get inside the building. The crowd went up the stairs, tore doors, put in private rooms and ransacked the offices of bishop, damaging furniture and reducing the windows shattered. Refusing to give up the bishop Rottenburg, two days later there was another event attended by about two thousand people. There fu alcun tentativo di penetrare all’interno del palazzo, e dopo gli insulti di rito, con i quali «il vescovo fu indicato come traditore del popolo, zingaro nero, figlio di […], ed espressioni simili», la manifestazione si concluse con un comizio, anch’esso condito di insulti e minacce nei confronti di Sproll.
Il 23 luglio, per la terza volta in otto giorni, una folla minacciosa si radunò davanti al palazzo vescovile. La manifestazione iniziò alle 21 con i soliti slogan contro il vescovo, uniti a grida, a fischi e agli ululati di alcune sirene antiaeree. Riferisce un rapporto della Gestapo di Stoccarda: «Sul lato sinistro del palazzo furono squarciate le porte di ferro che davano sul giardino e abbattute le porte di legno che conducevano al pianterreno. Armati di bastoni e di asce circa cento-centocinquanta dimostranti penetrarono nel palazzo, distrussero numerose porte chiuse, specialmente quelle che impedivano loro l’accesso ai piani superiori. Nella cantina vasi per conserve pieni furono gettati contro le pareti, contenitori pieni di uova furono rovesciati, bottiglie di vino furono aperte a forza e il loro contenuto bevuto, dai locali della cancelleria furono gettati documenti dalle finestre. In una stanza del secondo piano un letto fu messo a fuoco, ma prima che i mobili di quella stanza e l’intero palazzo fossero divorati, il fuoco fu scoperto da un funzionario della Gestapo e spento con l’aiuto di un’inquilina of the building. " The late intervention of the Political Police restore calm on the battlefield. Following the same Gestapo told the Stuttgart centered Bertino Rottenbung of the population had taken a hostile attitude against the demonstrators and the police, the latter accused of having done nothing to quell and prevent accidents. The omnibus which brought home the demonstrators were subjected to stone throwing, gathered around the bishop's palace from three hundred to five hundred faithful who paid homage to the bishop. After these incidents the Lieutenant of the Reich by Hitler and Gauleiter Murr obtained a decree of expulsion of Bishop Württemberg. Only after the war he returned to Sproll Rottenburg.L 'wave of violence went down in history as the "Kristallnacht" was not directed exclusively against the "world Judaism," but also against "red-blacks and their allies", as stated in the appeal of the interior minister of Bavaria, Wagner, published all over the papers. 21.45 Around November 11, Faulhaber, the archbishop of Monaco, she saw columns of trucks and a dozen motorcycles, accompanied "by blinding lights and wailing sirens," she stopped in front of the apartment of the archbishop. From the road you raised a deafening din, "and less than two minutes after the first stones collided against the window panes and against taxes, some which echoed like gunshots. Afterwards he started with a strong howling pounding a stone-throwing against the eight windows on the ground floor and against the nine windows on the first floor facing the street. The glass fell rattling in part in the cavity between the two panes of the window in winter and also in off the street, and in half an hour about a hundred windows were destroyed, including the glass of the chapel with the bishop's coat of arms. Since in the house next door were renovating, stones and bricks were directly available. " The thick stone throwing was accompanied by shouts and insults such as "The idler in Dachau," "The dog in safe custody," "Go home" "We want to see our bishop," "Dear Bishop, be nice, can see the balcony," etc.. The crowd was estimated by the Vicar General Buchwieser in about seventy people, among whom there were also young girls and members of Hitler Youth and SS Buchwieser Reports: "The floor of [the chapel] was full of shrapnel. Individual bricks were gone as far as the opposite wall. With violence also tried to break through the door by a heavy beam, slid on a wheelbarrow. A woman who tried to dissuade the demonstrators from further attempts to break down the door saying: "It makes no sense, nor is it in" was knocked down and beaten till she bled. Only the arrival a police patrol, came to the aid of another already in place but unable to intervene, he managed to restore order and prevent further violence.
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