Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, on the contrary, belated discovery that a Nazi, even of the Old Guard, is partly of Jewish blood unleashes anti-Semitic decrees against him, and Germany has seen numberless pathetic cases of Jews professing themselves ardently pro-Nazi in vain efforts to save themselves. Before Adolf Hitler came to power his Brown Shirts regularly took up so-called "voluntary contributions" from Jews who hoped that as contributors they would be spared after the Party took over Germany...
...funeral of the Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, murdered by Nazi conspirators in 1934, hollow-eyed, handsome Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, delivered a eulogy. Cardinal Innitzer described the killing as the "crime of a heathenish political group," flatly declared that "those who after these events are still supporting the Nazis are excluding themselves from civilization." When, four years later, Nazi conquerors rolled into Vienna, His Eminence allowed the swastika to fly over St. Stephen's Cathedral, signed a pastoral letter urging Austrian Catholics to vote Nazi in the subsequent plebiscite...
Although reproved by the Vatican for his "political Catholicism," Cardinal Innitzer for a time maintained a policy of conciliation toward the Nazis'. Lately, however, he has condemned Nazi marriage laws and the abolition of confessional schools as violations of the old Austrian concordat with the Holy...
Last week, His Eminence, born a Sudeten Austrian, preached a plain-spoken anti-Nazi sermon at a youth service at St. Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured...
...will be hotsy-totsy To make the world Nazi Under Adolf, the house-paintin' Führer...