{"id":8758,"date":"2010-09-17T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/17\/the-pope-was-a-nazi\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:48:57","slug":"the-pope-was-a-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/the-pope-was-a-nazi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope was a Nazi UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might be a little unusual for me, being an American of my age and all, but over the course of my life I&#8217;ve had a small number of close friends who were Hitler Youth in Germany during World War II.  I don&#8217;t hold that specific fact against anyone.  But, just in case you wanted to see it, I thought I&#8217;d post this photograph of The Pope giving <del>the Nazi Salute<\/del> something that looks exactly like the Nazi salute but is actually a Christian blessing thingie (which does not obviate the fact that he was a Nazi along with most of his Christian-German compatriots of the time):<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-d6a060128e48a747578db0fc1e420730-7dew.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-d6a060128e48a747578db0fc1e420730-7dew.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But then, it turns out that he WAS giving a real lie Nazi salute in a different picture.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remnantofgod.org\/ratzingersalute.htm\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yfrog.com\/n07dewj\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line:  The Christians (including their leaders) of Germany at the time included a lot of people who were perfectly OK with remaining silent or worse.  How much harder must I make to make this case clear to the Nazi Symps and Holocaust denialists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be a little unusual for me, being an American of my age and all, but over the course of my life I&#8217;ve had a small number of close friends who were Hitler Youth in Germany during World War II. I don&#8217;t hold that specific fact against anyone. But, just in case you wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/the-pope-was-a-nazi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pope was a Nazi UPDATED<\/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\/p5fhV1-2hg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758"}],"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=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}