God’s holy providence has provided that in a decisive hour he [Hitler] be entrusted with the leadership of the German people.
—From an article in Klerusblatt, organ of the Bavarian Association of Diocesan Priests, honoring Hitler on his fiftieth birthday,
April 20, 19391
The [Nazi] movement for freeing the world from the Jews is a movement for the renaissance of human dignity. The all-wise and Almighty God is behind this movement.
—Fr. Franjo Kralik in a Zagreb Catholic newspaper, 19412
RIDES THE BEAST