[RobbyS]

And who were the Nazi sympathizers? Many an honest butcher or baker. Many a country curate. Many a school master. Good Catholics, but Bavarians first and Germans second who did not see anything terribly wrong with enrolling their children in the Hitlerjugend. Of course for every one who thought that the Nazis were on to something, there were many more who were simply fearful, careful not to say the wrong thing.

[sinkspur]

So AMerican Catholics are like Nazi sympathizers?

What are those who advocate burning heretics and dissenters at the stake in the 21st century? Enlightened?

[choirboy]

And who were the Nazi sympathizers? ... Good Catholics, but Bavarians first...

Nonsense!

I recommend you read Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's Liberty or Equality. His analysis of the 1933 election showed that "...the royalist 'Bavarian People's Party' maintained and slightly increased its number of supporters, whereas the Catholic Centre Party rose slowly from 61 to 73 seats."

He goes on to describe the voting of the other German constituencies and concludes: It was German liberalism and German bourgeois democracy which had turned National Socialist (emphasis in the original) pp. 261-262.