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Order. On July 4, 1933, the Bavarian
People's Party (Document 27), and on July 5, 1933, the Center Party
(Document 29), published an announcement of their dissolution."
In spite of these evidences of confidence and co-operation or submission
on the part of the Catholics, the Nazi conspirators almost immediately
commenced a series of violations of the concordat. I offer in evidence
Document Number 3476-PS, Exhibit USA-567, being the Papal Encyclical, "Mit
brennender Sorge" — in German — by Pope Pius XI on March
14, 1937, and also ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice of all of
it. I quote from the one-page English excerpt ...
THE PRESIDENT: Did you say 3476 or 3466?
COL. WHEELER: 3476.
THE PRESIDENT: We don't seem to have that.
COL. WHEELER: That may be a mistake, Sir, for 3563; the number was
changed. The part of it which is in English in the Document Book, Sir,
is under 3280-PS.
THE PRESIDENT: 3280?
COL. WHEELER: The difficulty is that the German original came in after
the translation had been made from another source.
THE PRESIDENT: 3280(a)-PS?
COL. WHEELER: 3280 without the (a). It's just a couple of paragraphs.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, yes; I see.
COL. WHEELER: These are found on Page 2, Paragraph 2, of the German
original, which is in evidence now, which was secretly reproduced at
Fulda from copies smuggled into Germany from Rome, and read definitely
from pulpits all over Germany. I quote:
"It discloses intrigues which from
the beginning had no other aim than a war of extermination. In the
furrows in which we had labored to sow the seeds of true peace,
others, like the enemy in Holy Scripture (Matt. xiii, 25), sowed the
tares of suspicion, discord, hatred, calumny, of secret and open
fundamental hostility to Christ and His Church, fed from a thousand
different sources and making use of every available means. On them and
on them alone and on their silent and vocal protectors rests the
responsibility for the fact that now, on the horizon of Germany, there
is to be seen, not the rainbow of peace, but the threatening storm
clouds of destructive religious strife.
"Anyone who has even a grain of a sense of truth left in his
mind and even a shadow of a feeling of justice left in his heart will
have to admit that, in the difficult and eventful