Reply #1: Well done, but one exception. Hermann Rauschning was not a reliable source. [View All]

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His book "The Voice of Destruction" was published in 1940, based on what he claimed were private conversations with Hitler. It was written specifically to convince the west to fear Hitler and take action against him. Later research has shown that Rauschning was a minor official who rarely met Hitler and was certainly never close to him, although he claims in the book that everything is based on many long, private conversations with Hitler. Those conversations never happened. It's possible he knew someone who told him these things, and used his own name to protect their identity, but without proof, it's hard to trust anything he wrote.

That only affects your third quote, as far as I know. The quote from the Munich speech is authentic, and the most damning of the lot IMHO, not just for the pope, but for today's demagogues who use Christianity to attack Islam.