German Catholic Church uses charity organization for fraud involving
compensation for slave laborers during the Hitler era.
Although the Catholic Church has always maintained to be a victim of
Hitler's Nazi policy, the opposite is true. Not only it did nothing to
prevent mass murders, it benefited by "renting" from SS the slave
laborers brought from Eastern Europe, just like Bayer AG did for medical
experiments at Aushwitz death camp.
Now, the victims who survived, demand to be paid for "free" services
rendered to Catholic Church. And it agreed to pay back wages a few years
ago. But to do that, they need money. So the German bishops invented a
clever racket.
Catholic Church runs a tax exempt charity called Caritas. It is
registered both in Germany and in Poland (along many other countries).
In the Polish case, it is almost entirely paid for by the taxpayes on
the premise of providing free services for the poor. It turns out,
however, that in 2001 German Bishops asked Cardinal Glemp (head of
Polish Catholic Church) to use Caritas charity to pay the compensation
money for the Catholic Church slave labor during the Hitler times. Any
such payment violates charitable status of Caritas of Germany and
Caritas of Poland.
See 2003 annual report of Caritas Poland on page 37 here:
http://caritas.pl/download/raporty/cp2003.pdf
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