Today, the 12th of June, is the feast day of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs. The 108 Martyrs of World War II were Roman Catholics from Poland killed during World War II by Nazi Germany. The group comprises 3 bishops, 79 priests, 7 male religious, 8 female religious, and 11 lay people. There are two parishes named for the 108 Martyrs of World War II in Powiercie in Koło County, and in Malbork, Poland. The 108 were beatified on 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland.
In recent times there has unfortunately been a rise in support for Hitler displayed on various social media accounts in Ireland, England and further afield. There is a renewed problem of people claiming that Hitler was good. Governments around the world have also embraced similar godless ideologies as Hitler in relation to their support for abortion and euthanasia.
A growing number of social media accounts in Ireland and the UK have stated their belief that Hitler was a good man and they even provide some examples to showcase Hitler's good side. But saying Hitler was good because he was charitable to a few is like saying Varadkar, Martin or Mary-Lou are good despite the fact that they support todays genocide, the murder of unborn children.
There are even some who claim that Hitler was a Christian. In response to that specific claim, below is an article submitted by - Hitler Hated Christ (@not_our_guy) / Twitter
BY HITLER HATED CHRIST (@not_our_guy)
Adolph Hitler was not a Christian, but even further than that he had deep distain for the Christian worldview and social values. Although raised a Catholic, Hitler repeatedly made statements in stark contradiction to Christlike moral values and biblical doctrine. For example, Alfred Rosenberg and Joseph Goebbels both independently recall many conversations in which Hitler made statements comparing Christianity to syphilis, saying they both “made humanity unhappy and unfree”.1 Goebbels and Rosenberg also report that Hitler made statements referring to “the problem of Christianity” and Rosenberg even underlines this term in his diary entry about this conversation.2
In our modern age it is easy to perceive all forces against the clear evil of sexual ‘liberation’ and excessive racial integration to be strictly good and biblical, whereas the reality is otherwise. In other records Goebbels claims that “The Führer thinks Christianity is ripe for destruction”3 and seems elated at this idea, regardless of the fact Goebbels and Hitler himself presented themselves publicly as Christians. Further still, Hitler is recorded to have referred to the belief of following Christ as a poison.4
These details only scratch the surface of the available records and information about Hitler’s anti-Christian views, but for even more in-depth information take a look at the pinned thread on my twitter account (@not_our_guy). Regardless of your opinions of Hitlers policy views on economics or even nationalism it’s important for Christians to perform a realistic self-assessment and ask why so many right-wing believers feel a draw to defend him. Take yourself out of the time period you live, out of the moral degradation of the current year, and assess Hitler as an individual and the ideology he propagated in comparison to Christ’s character as exhibited in the gospels.
If you are honest with yourself, you will recognize the Führer is worthy of no adoration or reverence. Conservative Christians should not be idolizing a figure who made statements such as “a religion that proceeds from the principle that one should love his enemies, may not kill, and must offer the left cheek when struck on the right one, is not suitable for a manly doctrine of defending one’s Fatherland. Christianity is in fact a doctrine of decay. For a modern person it deserves only intellectual disdain.”5 Our true allegiance should be to Christ, not stopping worldly pain or even strictly reacting to modern evils. We must “test the spirits” as scripture says and internalize the reality that “every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.” (1 John 4:3) There ought to be no room for leaders who scratch the current itch but are wholly un-Christlike in their words, actions, and intentions. There is nothing admirable in evil regardless of the political expedience. “(Love) does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” (1 Corinthians 13:6) 1a. Alfred Rosenberg, diary entry for April 9, 1941, in Alfred Rosenberg Diary, 531, http://collections.ushmm.org/view/2001.62.14; accessed January 22, 2014. 1b. Goebbels, diary entry for April 8, 1941, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich, pa rt I: Aufzeichnungen 1923– 1941, vol. 9: Dezember 1940–Juli 1941 (Munich K. G. Saur, 1998), 234 2.a Alfred Rosenberg, diary, entry for December 14, 1941, 625, accessed January 22, 2014 http://collections.ushmm.org/view/2001.62.14. 2.b Goebbels, diary entry for December 13, 1941, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich, part II: Diktate 1941–1945, vol. 2: Oktober–Dezember 1941 (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1996), 498–500. 3. Goebbels, diary entry for January 5, 1937, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich, part I: Aufzeichnungen 1923– 1941, vol. 3/II: März 1936–Februar 1937 (Munich: K. G. Saur, 2001), 316.insol 4. Hitler, monologue on April 4, 1942, in Hitlers Tischgespräche, 184 5a. Goebbels, diary entry on December 14, 1941, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich, part II: Diktate 1941–1945, vol. 2: Oktober–Dezember 1941 (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1996), 506; 5b. Rosenberg recorded the same point in his entry for December 14, 1941, in Alfred Rosenberg Diaries, 625 – 27, http://collections.ushmm.org/view/2001.62.14;
editors note - Another good resource in refuting the claims that Hitler was good is a video by Roy Schoeman, which can be viewed here - Virgin Mary converts Harvard Professor Part 2 (Jewish Convert to Catholic) - YouTube
Roy Schoeman, who was a Jewish professor that converted to Catholicism after Our Lady appeared to him, explains how there were three streams which flowed into the culmination of the holocaust. Those three streams were - sexual depravity, occultism and eugenics. All three streams are rife within Irish society and across the world. Today's society has much in common with Nazi Germany prior to the holocaust.
List of Polish Martyrs -
Bishops -
Antoni Julian Nowowiejski (1858–1941 KL Soldau), bishop
Leon Wetmański (1886–1941 KL Soldau), bishop
Władysław Goral (1898–1945 KL Sachsenhausen), bishop
Priests -
Adam Bargielski, priest from Myszyniec (1903–1942 KZ Dachau)
Aleksy Sobaszek, priest (1895–1942 KL Dachau)
Alfons Maria Mazurek, Carmelite friar, prior, priest (1891–1944, shot by the Gestapo)
Alojzy Liguda, Society of the Divine Word, priest (1898–1942 KL Dachau)
Anastazy Jakub Pankiewicz, Franciscan friar, priest (1882–1942 KL Dachau)
Anicet Kopliński, Capuchin friar, priest in Warsaw (1875–1941)
Antoni Beszta-Borowski, priest, dean of Bielsk Podlaski (1880–1943, shot near Bielsk Podlaski)
Antoni Leszczewicz, Marian Father, priest (1890–1943, burnt to death in Rosica, Belarus)
Antoni Rewera, priest, dean of the Cathedral Chapter in Sandomierz (1869–1942 KL Dachau)
Antoni Świadek, priest from Bydgoszcz (1909–1945 KL Dachau)
Antoni Zawistowski, priest (1882–1942 KL Dachau)
Bolesław Strzelecki, priest (1896–1941 KL Auschwitz)
Bronisław Komorowski, priest (1889–22 March 1940 KL Stutthof)
Dominik Jędrzejewski, priest (1886–1942 KL Dachau)
Edward Detkens, priest (1885–1942 KL Dachau)
Edward Grzymała, priest (1906–1942 KL Dachau)
Emil Szramek, priest (1887–1942 KL Dachau)
Fidelis Chojnacki, Capuchin friar, priest (1906–1942, KL Dachau)
Florian Stępniak, Capuchin friar, priest (1912–1942 KL Dachau)
Franciszek Dachtera, priest (1910–23 August 1942 KL Dachau)
Franciszek Drzewiecki, Orionine Father, priest (1908–1942 KL Dachau); from Zduny, he was condemned to heavy work in the plantation of Dachau. While he was bending over tilling the soil, he adored the consecrated hosts kept in a small box in front of him. While he was going to the gas chamber, he encouraged his companions, saying "We offer our life for God, for the Church and for our Country".
Franciszek Rogaczewski, priest from Gdańsk (1892–1940, shot in Stutthof or in Piaśnica, Pomerania)
Franciszek Rosłaniec, priest (1889–1942 KL Dachau)
Henryk Hlebowicz, priest (1904–1941, shot at Borisov in Belarus)
Henryk Kaczorowski, priest from Włocławek (1888–1942)
Henryk Krzysztofik, religious priest (1908–1942 KL Dachau)
Hilary Paweł Januszewski, religious priest (1907–1945 KL Dachau)
Jan Antonin Bajewski, Conventual Franciscan friar, priest (1915–1941 KL Auschwitz); of Niepokalanow. These were the closest collaborators of St Maximilian Kolbe in the fight for God's cause and together suffered and helped each other spiritually in their offering their lives at Auschwitz
Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Dominican friar, priest (1897–1944)
Jan Nepomucen Chrzan, priest (1885–1942 KL Dachau)
Jerzy Kaszyra, Marian Father, priest (1910–1943, burnt to death in Rosica, Belarus)
Józef Achilles Puchała, Franciscan friar, priest (1911–1943, killed near Iwieniec, Belarus)
Józef Cebula, Missionary Oblate, priest (23 March 1902 – 9 May 1941 KL Mauthausen)[2]
Józef Czempiel, priest (1883–1942 KL Mauthausen)
Józef Innocenty Guz, Franciscan friar, priest (1890–1940 KL Sachsenhausen)
Józef Jankowski, Pallotine, priest (1910 born in Czyczkowy near Brusy, Kashubia (died 16 October 1941 in KL Auschwitz beaten by a kapo)
Józef Kowalski, Salesian, priest (1911–1942)
Józef Kowalski, priest beaten to death on 3 July 1942 in the KL Auschwitz concentration camp[3]
Józef Kurzawa, priest (1910–1940)
Józef Kut, priest (1905–1942 KL Dachau)
Józef Pawłowski, priest (1890–9 January 1942 KL Dachau)
Józef Stanek, Pallottine, priest (1916–23 September 1944, murdered in Warsaw)
Józef Straszewski, priest (1885–1942 KL Dachau)
Karol Herman Stępień, Franciscan friar, priest (1910–1943, killed near Iwieniec, Belarus)
Kazimierz Gostyński, priest (1884–1942 KL Dachau)
Kazimierz Grelewski, priest (1907–1942 KL Dachau)
Kazimierz Sykulski, priest (1882–1942 KL Auschwitz)
Krystyn Gondek, Franciscan friar, priest (1909–1942 KL Dachau)
Leon Nowakowski, priest (1913–1939)
Ludwik Mzyk, Society of the Divine Word, priest (1905–1940)
Ludwik Pius Bartosik, Conventual Franciscan friar, priest (1909–1941 KL Auschwitz); of Niepokalanow. These were the closest collaborators of St Maximilian Kolbe in the fight for God's cause and together suffered and helped each other spiritually in their offering their lives at Auschwitz
Ludwik Roch Gietyngier, priest from Częstochowa (1904–1941 KL Dachau)
Maksymilian Binkiewicz, priest (1913–24 July 1942, beaten, died in KL Dachau)
Marian Gorecki, priest (1903–22 March 1940 KL Stutthof)
Marian Konopiński, Capuchin friar, priest (1907–1 January 1943 KL Dachau)
Marian Skrzypczak, priest (1909–1939 shot in Plonkowo)
Michał Oziębłowski, priest (1900–1942 KL Dachau)
Michał Piaszczyński, priest (1885–1940 KL Sachsenhausen)
Michał Woźniak, priest (1875–1942 KL Dachau)
Mieczysław Bohatkiewicz, priest (1904–4 March 1942, shot in Berezwecz)
Narcyz Putz, priest (1877–1942 KL Dachau)
Narcyz Turchan, priest (1879–1942 KL Dachau)
Piotr Edward Dankowski, priest (1908–3 April 1942 KL Auschwitz)
Roman Archutowski, priest (1882–1943 KL Majdanek)
Roman Sitko, priest (1880–1942 KL Auschwitz)
Stanisław Kubista, Society of the Divine Word, priest (1898–1940 KL Sachsenhausen)
Stanisław Kubski, priest (1876–1942, prisoner in KL Dachau, killed in Hartheim near Linz)
Stanisław Mysakowski, priest (1896–1942 KL Dachau)
Stanisław Pyrtek, priest (1913–4 March 1942, shot in Berezwecz)
Stefan Grelewski, priest (1899–1941 KL Dachau)
Wincenty Matuszewski, priest (1869–1940)
Władysław Błądziński, Michaelite, priest (1908–1944, KL Gross-Rosen)
Władysław Demski, priest (1884–28 May 1940, KL Sachsenhausen)
Władysław Maćkowiak, priest (1910–4 March 1942 shot in Berezwecz)
Władysław Mączkowski, priest (1911–20 August 1942 KL Dachau)
Władysław Miegoń, priest, commander lieutenant (1892–1942 KL Dachau)
Włodzimierz Laskowski, priest (1886–1940 KL Gusen)
Wojciech Nierychlewski, religious, priest (1903–1942, KL Auschwitz)
Zygmunt Pisarski, priest (1902–1943)
Zygmunt Sajna, priest (1897–1940, shot at Palmiry, near Warsaw)
Religious brothers
Brunon Zembol, friar (1905–1942 KL Dachau)
Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak, Society of the Divine Word friar (1911–1943, guillotined in Dresden)
Józef Zapłata, friar (1904–1945 KL Dachau)
Marcin Oprządek, friar (1884–1942 KL Dachau)
Piotr Bonifacy Żukowski, friar (1913–1942 KL Auschwitz)
Stanisław Tymoteusz Trojanowski, friar (1908–1942 KL Auschwitz)
Symforian Ducki, friar (1888–1942 KL Auschwitz)
Nuns and religious sisters -
Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska, a nun killed in 1939 in the mass murders in Piaśnica
Alicja Maria Jadwiga Kotowska, sister, based on eye-witness reports comforted and huddled with Jewish children before she and the children were executed (1899–1939, executed at Piaśnica, Pomerania)
Ewa Noiszewska, sister (1885–1942, executed at Góra Pietrelewicka near Slonim, Belarus)
Julia Rodzińska, Dominican sister (1899–20 February 1945, KL Stutthof); she died having contracted typhoid serving the Jewish women prisoners in a hut for which she had volunteered.
Katarzyna Celestyna Faron (1913–1944, KL Auschwitz); (1913–1944), had offered her life for the conversion of an Old Catholic bishop Władysław Faron (no relation). She was arrested by the Gestapo and condemned to Auschwitz camp. She put up heroically with all the abuses of the camp and died on Easter Sunday 1944. The bishop later returned to the Catholic Church).
Maria Antonina Kratochwil, SSND nun (1881–1942) died as a result of the torture she endured while imprisoned in Stanisławów.
Maria Klemensa Staszewska (1890–1943 KL Auschwitz)
Marta Wołowska (1879–1942, executed at Góra Pietrelewicka near Slonim, Belarus)
Mieczysława Kowalska, sister (1902–1941, Soldau concentration camp in Działdowo)
Roman Catholic laity -
Bronisław Kostkowski, alumnus (1915–1942 KL Dachau)
Czesław Jóźwiak (1919–1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
Edward Kaźmierski (1919–1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
Edward Klinik (1919–1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
Franciszek Kęsy (1920–1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
Franciszek Stryjas (1882–31 July 1944, Kalisz prison)
Jarogniew Wojciechowski (1922–1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
Marianna Biernacka (1888–13 July 1943), executed instead of her pregnant daughter-in-law Anna, offered her life for her and her unborn grandchild)
Natalia Tułasiewicz (1906–31 March 1945, died in KL Ravensbrück)
Stanisław Starowieyski (1895–1941 in KL Dachau)
Tadeusz Dulny, alumnus (1914–1942 KL Dachau)
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