Was Hitler a Catholic?
Leo Herbert Lehmann was born in 1895 in Kingstown, County Dublin, Ireland, to Edmund and Emma Lehmann. He attended Mungret College in Limerick, and All Hallows College in Dublin. He was awarded advanced academic degrees in theology, including a Licentiate of Sacred Theology and Doctorate of Divinity. In 1918, Lehmann entered the University de Propaganda Fide in Rome, Italy, and was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in St. John Lateran. He served as a Roman Catholic priest in Europe and South Africa. For several years, he served as a negotiator in legal matters at the Vatican. Following his activities at the Vatican, he went to the United States, where he served as a priest in Florida. During his time in the US, he continued his education at New York University, earning a Master's degree.
In his book called the "Behind the Dictators" Leo Lehmann states "The identity of Hitler's ideology with that of traditional Jesuit Catholicism cannot be denied; nor the fact that by ruthless persecution and armed might, in collaboration with the other Catholic dictators, he has forwarded the ultimate objectives of the Catholic Church. Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Salazar (the Catholic dictator of Portugal) ousted Jewish, Masonic and Protestant influence from all of Europe from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. In spite of this, however, many in America are still skeptical of any predetermined connection between Nazi-Fascism and Jesuit Catholicism".
Toronto news article from April 3, 1944
Here is a link to the full article: How the Catholic Church Help Hitler to Power
list of Hitlers men - catholic ties
- Heinrich Himmler - The son of a Roman Catholic secondary-school master, Himmler studied agriculture after World War I and joined rightist paramilitary organizations.
