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In Galen's famous 1941 anti-euthanasia sermons, he denounced the confiscations of church properties.

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Great men are not made by propaganda, but rather grow through their deeds and are recognized by history. The cardinal expressed the view that, with the guarantees given relating to Catholic education, this concordat was an improvement over the 1929 agreement with Prussia. C., United States of America: The American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA)/ Catholic University of America Press (CUA Press).

But once a revolution has been completed, the government represents only the people as a whole, and is never the champion of individual groups; otherwise it would have to fail in forming a national community … It is not permissible, therefore, to dismiss the mind ( Geist) with the catchword “intellectualism. If a regular care of souls, requiring appointment of clergy as state or public officials, is introduced in such institutions, this will be made by agreement with the higher Church authorities. The Nazis planned to eliminate the Church's influence by restricting its organizations to purely religious activities. Hamerow; On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997, ISBN 0674636805, p.

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Papen recorded in his memoirs that on his arrival in Rome, the Pope "greeted me with paternal affection, expressing his pleasure that at the head of the German State was a man like Hitler, on whose banner the uncompromising struggle against Communism and Nihilism was inscribed. Confirms the Vatican having a Papal Nuncio (diplomat) in Berlin and the German government having an ambassador in Rome. The issue of the concordat prolonged Kaas's stay in Rome, leaving the Centre Party without a chairman, and on 5 May Kaas finally resigned from his post.Article 30 On Sundays and Holy Days a prayer will be said for the welfare of the German Reich and its people in episcopal, parish, affiliated and conventional churches in the German Reich, immediately after the High Mass and according to the rules of the Church liturgy. Articles 31–32 relate to the issue of Catholic organizations "devoted exclusively to religious, cultural and charitable purposes" and empowered the Reich government and German episcopate to "determine, by mutual agreement, the organizations and associations which fall within the provisions of this article. The Nazi authorities claimed that the properties were needed for wartime necessities such as hospitals, or accommodation for refugees or children, but in fact used them for their own purposes. According to novelist James Carroll, the end of Kulturkampf signaled "that the Church had successfully resisted to his face the man [Bismarck] who, according to an admiring Henry Kissinger, was 'outmaneuvered' by nobody.