On
this date, 20 July 1933, The Reichskonkordat (English: Reich Concordat) is a treaty between
the Holy See and Germany negotiated during its transition into Nazi Germany. It
was signed on 20 July 1933 by Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli (who later
became Pope Pius XII) on behalf of Pope Pius XI and Vice Chancellor Franz von
Papen and President Paul von Hindenburg on behalf of the German government
respectively.
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The signing of the Reichskonkordat on
July 20, 1933 in Rome. (From left to right: German prelate Ludwig Kaas,
German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical
Affairs Giuseppe Pizzardo, Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio
Pacelli, Alfredo Ottaviani, and member of Reichsministerium
des Inneren (Home Office) Rudolf
Buttmann)
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The
Reichskonkordat (English: Reich Concordat) is a treaty between
the Holy See and Germany negotiated during its transition into Nazi Germany. It
was signed on 20 July 1933 by Secretary of State Eugenio
Pacelli (who later became Pope Pius XII) on behalf of Pope Pius XI and
Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen and President Paul von Hindenburg
on behalf of the German government respectively. The treaty guarantees the
rights of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, but Nazi
breaches of the agreement began almost as soon as it had been signed, leading
to protest from the Church, including in the 1937 Mit brennender Sorge
encyclical of Pope Pius XI.
The
Reichskonkordat is the most controversial of several concordats between
Germany and other nations that the Vatican negotiated during the pontificate of
Pius XI. It is frequently discussed in works that deal with the rise of Hitler
in the early 1930s and the Holocaust. The concordat has been described by some as
giving moral legitimacy to the Nazi regime soon after Hitler
had acquired quasi-dictatorial powers through the Enabling Act of 1933, though Reichskanzler
Hitler himself is not a signatory to the treaty and the treaty does not make
mention of Hitler, or the Nazi Party. The source document is addressed to
President Paul von Hindenburg.
The
treaty places constraints on the political activity of German clergy of the
Catholic Church. This contributed to a decrease in the previously vocal
criticism of Nazism by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Germany, after
September 1933 when the treaty was ratified. From a Roman Catholic church
perspective it has been argued that the concordat prevented even greater evils
being unleashed against the Church. Though some German bishops were
unenthusiastic, and the Allies at the end of World War II felt it
inappropriate, Pope Pius XII successfully argued to keep the concordat in
force. It is still in force to this day.
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Reichskonkordat
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