| Kasz216 said: No. It's more FDR and Churchill. What he's saying isn't new, so much as better documented. A lot of people got out via Red Cross and Vatican just in the rust of innocent people trying to get out too. Others got out through the Vatican... via CIA and RIA insistance because they were thought to be able to be useful against the Soviets. During WW2 the allies were already planning for WW3. Including Stalin. When they won WW2 Patton suggested that while they had the tanks on the ground and troops in the field they should press the advantage with relativly fresh US troops and "Push till Moscow". While enlisting what was left of the German Army to help!
Bishops who knowingly let nazis escape just because they wanted to... that's just silly on any large basis. Maybe here and there for an occasional Catholic who didn't have much to do with the Nazi party... afterall not ALL people in the Nazi party were bad guys... just the main leaders... lots of people were just everyday people who joined to better feed their families. |
What we're talking about here though is Nazi officers fleeing to countries that were not under the influence of the USA (though the USA made little effort to pursue them after they had fled). The ratline that some people in the Vatican formed mostly lead to South America, Argentina in particular. An example of a person that was helped to escape by a Catholic Bishop is Eichmann, the architect of the holocaust - not one of those good people you're talking about.
Have a read of these wiki articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hudal
Edit: Oh and the Vatican itself would not have done something like the Holocaust. They were murky and ambivalent on the issue of anti-semitism, preferring politics of self-preservation to taking a moral stand. Much like they did recently with the paedophile priests controversy really...
