"Léon Degrelle - A letter to the Pope on his visit to Auschwitz…"
"To his holiness John Paul II In Exile 20th May, 1979
The Vatican City
most holy father,
I am Léon Degrelle and I was the Leader of Belgian Rexism (“the Rexist Movement”) before the Second World War. During the War I was the Commander of the Belgian Volunteers on the Eastern Front, and fought in the 28th Walloon Division of the Waffen ϟϟ. This will certainly not be regarded as a recommendation by everyone. I am, however, a Catholic like you, and I believe that I am thus entitled to write you as a brother in the faith.
I am concerned by the announcement in the press that during your coming visit to poland, from 2nd to 12th June 1979, you are going to concelebrate Mass with all the polish Bishops at the former concentration camp of Auschwitz. Let me say straight away that I find it very edifying to pray for the dead, whoever they may be and at any place, even in front of the brand new crematory ovens with their immaculate firebricks.
Even so, I am apprehensive. The fact of being polish and your adherence to this loyalty ceaselessly reappears in your pontifical behaviour. It is human. You are a patriot who participated very deeply in your youth in a tough bellicose conflict. If old resentments made too strong an impression on you, however, you might be tempted to take part, having now become pope, in secular quarrels which history has still not sufficiently clarified. What responsibility, for example, did the various belligerents have for the outbreak of the second World War? What role did certain instigators play? Everyone knows that your Prime Minister, Colonel Beck, was a rather dubious individual. Did he act with the requisite degree of level-headedness in 1939? Did he not reject, with undue arrogance, certain chances of reaching an accommodation in 1939 wth the German Government?"
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(Of the Internees, 25 percent were political or members of the Resistance and 75 percent were conscientious objectors, sexual perverts or common criminals.)
[In his letter
Degrelle does a masterful job debunking the Holohoax. One of the smaller items is mentioned]:
"It is ridiculous to imagine, and above all to pretend, that 24,000 people could have been gassed at Auschwitz each day – in batches of 3,000 at a time – in a room of 400 cubic metres. Still less could this have happened, in batches of 700 or 800, in buildings with a floor space of 25 square metres, and a height of 1.9 metres, as has been claimed with regard to Belzec. Twenty five square metres is equivalent to the floor space of a bedroom! Would you succeed, most holy father, in putting 700 or 800 people in your bedroom?"
https://nationalconscience.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/leon-degrelles-letter-to-the-pope-on-his-visit-to-auschwitz/
