在 1935年四月廿八日, Pius XII (當時尚未出任教宗一職, 二戰還未開打) 便在一個集會中, 當在250,000教徒講話, 講話紀錄如下:
the Nazis "are in reality only miserable plagiarists who dress up old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they are guided by a false concept of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult."
Robert Graham, S.J., ed., Pius XII and the Holocaust (New Rochelle, New York: Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 1988), 106
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[from an article by Richard Steigmann-Gall, entitled
"Religion and the churches" in the book NAZI GERMANY, by Jane Caplan
(Richard Steigmann-Gall is Associate Professor of History at Kent State University, and was the Director of the Jewish Studies Program from 2004 to 2010.)