Despite what the...

 ...German Catholic Church and German police claim,they were responsible for Hitler's licensed barbarism,not the Lutherans and certainly not any rival political party or political group. They (and all simple-minded people) read the Bible too literally and do not accept scholarship which puts its earliest versions at ca.250 AD.  Get to know a German Catholic, particularly one from the Schwarzwald or Bavaria where insolence and brutality are freely tolerated and racism is openly on display. It's the same wherever German Catholics go. Hitler's legacy is the ruin of his home country, Austria, and an independent country, Germany. His dangerous and murderous military adventures and anti-Communist crusade set the tone also for US anti-Communism.

However to dimwits in religious sects,it must be pointed out that nowadays the Vatican strongly denounces both Bolshevism and Nazism.

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On the left there is an national narrative. As Michael O Riordain put it,

"The Italians taught the IRA how to do the 'play'" (The Judgement,23 December 1991,Dublin).

In the important moment the Italian Catholic Church redeemed the whole Catholic Church from charges of anti-Semitism by throwing open monasteries and convents to the Jews.

The Irish dimension 

The IRA played both Communists and fascists off against each other in the style of the CIA/FBI mafia. Sean Mc Bride,the Chief of Staff,wrote into the IRA's Standing Orders the prohibition of "communist and fascist literature". That change to a dangerous if largely fantasy-group's constitution came about in 1937 because in Ireland the Provos and their forerunners have always tried to ride the two horses of Progress and Reaction.

Sed corpus non delicta. IRA activities ( or'For better or for worse')...Bluffers,ciphers for British Military Intelligence and entrapment..

 ....there can be no crime despite SUPERSTITION on behalf of newshounds and police bardogs,where there is no act (actus reus) regardless of the mental intent or sinister views of some wayward individuals from distressed families. Indeed,the police 'scare' story which excites public interest and real concern is the  ideal tactic of police who want to infiltrate a ''bogeyman' or 'bluffer' or 'cipher' or 'stool pigeon' or 'false flag agent' or agent provocateur into revolutionary circles, groups or organisations (but never parties). The tactic is also used to infiltrate a policeman into a prison cell or hospital ward because this is the only way to gain access to that prisoner's association or area of operations. When however the agent is elected,that breaks the patristic connection to the gendarmerie and the 'agent' becomes a sole trader in legal terms,a 'free agent'.

Or,as Jim Quinn,former Regional Industrial Officer of Unite the Union,said," Most of them are bluffers" when referring to the legal profession and the same goes for the police and their monstrous adversaries and fellow travellers in the so-called loyal orders.