Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 68: The Pope

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Chapter 68 The Pope

The distance between the east and west of the Vatican is only one kilometer at its widest point, and the north-south direction is compressed to more than 800 meters. The total area of ​​the country is 0.44 square kilometers, which is not even comparable to some larger blocks in Berlin.

The status and value of this country are mainly reflected in the spiritual level. It can be said that as long as the Catholic faith still exists in the world, the holy city of the Vatican will not die.

To say that the true creator of this religious country is the former Italian Prime Minister Mussolini who has just passed away. He personally signed the [Latran Treaty] with the Pope, which resolved the religion left over from the War of Unification in Italy. The question is to recognize that the Vatican is an independent national government, and in return the Pope Pius XI called Mussolini a "saint" and affirmed the Prime Minister in religious terms.

Speaking of the Pope in the Vatican, its roots can be traced back to the time of the Roman Republic, and its corresponding identity is the highest priest of Rome. The most famous person who held this position in later generations is the great Caesar.

After the religious belief of the Western Roman Empire was changed to Christianity, the high priest also evolved into the Archbishop of Rome. The Western Roman Emperor gave him the supreme position in the church, and was finally recognized by the Eastern Roman Empire and the Orthodox Church.

Subsequently, the Roman Empire eventually fell apart due to internal trickery and alien invasion, but the decline and fall of the empire did not affect the status of Christianity among the people.

Lost the suppression of the Roman emperor, since then the pope has not only held the divine power, but also directly controlled the huge assets of the church. The authority of the Holy See reached its peak in the Middle Ages, and even the Western kings’ weddings and funerals were positioned as the throne. , All must be blessed and approved by the Pope of Rome.

This was also the darkest period in Europe. Relying on religious authority, the church levied exorbitant charges throughout Europe, and the servants who collected religious taxes could take away the last bit of property from the peasants without mercy. At the same time, the Holy See frantically cracked down on any ideas that disagree with religion. In the darkest two centuries, the bonfires of the Inquisition had never lacked fuel. I don’t know how many great ideas and technological inventions were regarded as heretical doctrines. Was sealed and buried by the Holy See.

The previous life of the Vatican was the Papal State that once occupied one third of Italy's territory, but this land was legally gifted by the Frankish King. Doesn't it sound confusing? If it is really detailed, the story will be long. In order to avoid complaints about the author's irrigation, I will try to introduce it briefly here.

The land held by the Holy See at the time was actually the heritage of the Western Roman Empire that was secretly seized. It’s just that Western Rome had already fallen and no one would care about them. The real power ruler on this land at the time was a Germanic one. Branch Lombard.

At that time, Pepin, the dwarf of the Frankish kingdom, defeated his elder brother and seized the power of the Frankish kingdom. Because the throne was a bit wrong, the guilty dwarf, in order to prove the legitimacy of his throne, he invited the Pope of Rome for him. The coronation attempted to add some divinity to the crown, that is, starting from him, opened the beginning of the monarch power in the later generations.

In order to reward the Pope, the Frankish kingdom sent troops to conquer Italy twice, and finally defeated the Lombards who belonged to the Germanic branch completely, and gave part of the Italian land captured to the Holy See as a reward. On this basis, the Holy See established the Papal State. From then on, it called for the wind and rain on the Apennine Peninsula, and dangled among the European countries.

However, there is no immortal foundation in the world. By the 19th century, the general trend of national unification in Italy was unstoppable. Even Napoleon III, who claimed to be the protector of the Holy See, was unable to stop the demise of the Papal State after the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War. .

Emanuele I commanded troops to occupy all the territory of the Papal State. The Pope lost all his secular powers and could only hide in Vatican City with members of the Holy See, followed by the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy for half of the time. A confrontation for more than a century.

He waited until Mussolini came to power. In order to get the support of the church, he negotiated with Pope Pius XI at the time, and finally the two sides reached a settlement agreement. The Vatican exists as an independent country, and the Holy See is in Italy. Property is protected and cannot be violated by any forces.

From the moment the treaty was signed to the date of Xu Jun’s visit, the Vatican City State was founded in only eleven years.

The Pope at this time was Pius XII, whose real name was Eugenio Pacelli. Before he took the throne, he served as the special envoy of the Holy See to various European countries for a long time and accumulated very rich diplomatic experience. The Vatican and Mexico Solini's settlement treaty was signed under his hand. At the same time, he visited Germany and signed the famous "imperial agreement" with the Nazis. On the condition that the Holy See did not oppose the Nazi Party's control of German power, he kept the Holy See in Germany. Power and interest.

Pacheli, who had become the cardinal of the Vatican at that time, saw the crisis that the Holy See would face from the changes in the political wind in Germany. The speed of the development of the Nazi Party made him fear, so the cardinal thought The Vatican must sign an agreement with this tough dictator so that the interests of the Holy See in Germany can be safeguarded.

But what the church did not expect was that after the Nazis were full of wings, Hitler directly tore up the agreement, and then something worrisome to the Holy See happened.

In fact, before Hitler came to power, he had already thought about letting the German Catholic Church out of the control of the Holy See, so that the Nazi Party could use this as an opportunity to finally control the religious rights of the whole of Germany.

In less than three years after the signing of the treaty, the Nazis began to put pressure on the German Catholic Church, not only forcing religious figures to swear allegiance to the head of state. And began to arrest anti-Nazis in the church, and at the same time stepped up the persecution of non-German Catholics.

This kind of behavior, which can be called slaying the grievances and killing the donkey, immediately touched the scales of the Roman Church, so the Pope Pius XI at the time began to constantly publicly attack the Nazi Party, resulting in the Nazi Party and the Catholic Church. There will be serious opposition during that time.

Hitler is very aware of the power of religion. There may be many atheists in Germany, but most Germans are very devout believers, and I have to say the attitude of the Vatican. It did cause certain damage to the Nazi Party’s civil foundation in Germany.

Of course Hitler did not blame his decision. Instead, he believed that as the Pope’s chief diplomatic adviser, Cardinal Pacheli was behind the Vatican’s and Germany’s turnaround, so when Pacheli was running for the pope, the German side made it clear Opposition.

It’s just that Germany’s strength was not strong at that time, and the hands of the head of state were not that long. He could not exert any influence on the election of the Holy See. In the end, Pacheli was elected as the 260th Pope of the Catholic Church. .

Interesting things happened afterwards. After the Pope took the throne, the Holy See's attack on Germany also came to an abrupt end. The relationship between the two parties unexpectedly showed signs of relaxation. This sudden change in style of painting, Even the German side also dropped his glasses.

Pius XII is a shrewd pope, and his diplomatic skills are more smooth than those of his predecessors. He had long understood the determination of the German head of state to revitalize Germany, and he also knew what the consequences of the appeasement policy of Britain and France would eventually lead to. He had to consider the attitude of the Holy See towards Germany, whether it was really a wise decision to be an enemy of Germany at this time.

Although the Nazi Party violated the power given to the Holy See by God, at the same time he also saw the advantage of the Nazis to the Holy See, that is, the head of state who holds the actual power in Germany, from his bones, is crazy hostile to the Jews.

Using state power to combat and suppress Judaism is the most popular thing since the establishment of the Holy See.

Faith struggles between Western religions have always been cruel and bloody. The Jewish people who have adhered to Judaism for thousands of years have always been regarded by the Holy See as the most insidious enemy of Catholicism~IndoMTL.com~ This is also the Holy See in history. Obviously, he has a large number of reports of the Jewish massacre in his hands, but he has always pretended to be one of the reasons for nothing. At the same time, there are some evidences that the Holy See even participated in the German persecution of the Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union. Because in the eyes of the Holy See, the Orthodox Church of the same line is even more threatening than the pagans. Vice versa, in order to **** the so-called legitimacy, once the two find that they have a chance to hit each other, they will definitely not relent. If there is anything in this world that allows them to reach a consensus, it is how to clean up those Jews.

Person Pius XII had visited Germany and met with a bunch of Nazi giants. Of course, he would not be missing the "Apostle of God", Hitler's most capable little friend, the deputy head of the Nazi party , The young Lord Reinhardt von Steide.

It's just that it was Jack that met him at that time, a biochemical man who had smuggled from the future. To be honest, apart from his amazing appearance, the deputy head of state did not impress the future pope. Before Xu Jun replaced Jack, the deputy head of state had no sense of existence in the outside world.

Phil XII never thought that Hitler would be finished so soon, let alone that it was the blond deputy head of state who had been shrinking behind Hitler to succeed the strongman.

Standing in the center of St. Peter’s Square, Pope Pius XII glanced around at the bishops around him, and then at the SS soldiers standing upright around the colonnade. His Majesty sighed secretly and clenched the cross. His long handle stroked the white wool shawl **** his chest.

At this time, there was a tumult from the crowd in the distance, and the Pope looked up and saw a majestic motorcade approaching him along the famous Concorde Avenue.

PS: It's okay to see the time, it's not eleven o'clock, thank you for your understanding.