Christopher Hitchens sobre el fascismo, Hitler y la Iglesia Católica

I can only summarize it (…) as tersely as I can. First — fascism, the original 20th century totalitarian movement, is really, historically, another name for — for the political activity of the Catholic right wing. There is no other name for it: Francoism, Salazarism, what happened in Croatia, in Austria, in Bavaria, and so on. The Church keeps on trying to apologize for it, can't apologize for it — It's the Catholic right. Mussolini. You can't quite say that about Hitler and National Socialism because that's also based on Nordic and pagan blood myths, leader worship and so on, though Hitler never repudiated his membership of the Church and prayers were said for him on his birthday every year till the very end on the orders of the Vatican. All of these stats are well known in the Church and it hasn't found a way to apologize for that enough. But whatever it is you can call that, you can't call it secular. You may not call it secular. By the way, Joseph Goebbels *was* excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Fifty percent, according to Paul Johnson (the Catholic historian) of the Waffen SS were confessing Catholics. None of them was ever threatened with excommunication, even threatened with it for taking part in the Final Solution. But Joseph Goebbels *was* excommunicated. For… … marrying a Protestant. See? We do have standards!