{"id":8757,"date":"2010-09-17T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/17\/warmest-congratulations-to-the\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:43:31","slug":"warmest-congratulations-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/warmest-congratulations-to-the\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-231b292ba29d2ec0ff86161205fc0327-hitler&#038;bishop.gif\" alt=\"i-231b292ba29d2ec0ff86161205fc0327-hitler&#038;bishop.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hitler wth Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin, 1935<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 20, 1939, Archbishop Orsenigo celebrated Hitler&#8217;s birthday. The celebrations, initiated by Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) became a tradition. Each April 20, Cardinal Bertram of Berlin was to send &#8220;warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany&#8221; and added with &#8220;fervent prayers which the Catholics of Germany are sending to heaven on their altars.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobeliefs.com\/nazis.htm\">Photo and text from here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitler wth Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin, 1935 On April 20, 1939, Archbishop Orsenigo celebrated Hitler&#8217;s birthday. The celebrations, initiated by Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) became a tradition. Each April 20, Cardinal Bertram of Berlin was to send &#8220;warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/warmest-congratulations-to-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2hf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}