Vatican temporarily in denial over Pope’s Hitler Youth past

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - Keen to ensure British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was fully aware of the threat posed by Adolf Hitler in 1938, Britain's intelligence agencies told him that the German leader called him an arsehole", says a new book. Britain's domestic security service MI5 was desperate to draw the attention of Chamberlain to its 1938 assessment that Hitler was in the early stages of a massive programme of territorial expansion.

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - An agnostic and a Muslim are among the three composers chosen to write music for the Pope as he visits the UK next year. Simon Boswell is a British agnostic; Nour Eddine is Muslim from Morocco; and the third composer is an Italian Catholic named Stefano Mainetti.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Even as thousands of people packed the streets of Washington on Friday to protest against government spending, some of the agitators likened President Barack Obama to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. According to a CBS report, most of those would have called themselves "patriots" arguing that their government was betraying traditional principles.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Two Belgian 'Hitler-hunters' claim to have traced 39 relatives of the Fuhrer in Austria and the US. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren say that they pinned down on Hitler's kin by matching the DNA of the Nazi leader to discarded cigarette butts in an Austrian village, a used paper napkin from a New York restaurant, and letters sent from France three decades ago.

August 16th, 2009 LONDON - A newly discovered catalogue of artworks stolen by the Nazis and compiled for Adolf Hitler could help unravel the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the lost masterpieces. Robert Edsel, an author and art historian based in Texas, recently uncovered two more albums, marked'6 'and'8'.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - The plans of Germany's pro-Hitler party to open a Third Reich-style "youth camp" in a small village have been scrapped by a court ruling, which directed Neo-Nazis to evict the hotel premises. A court in Lower Saxony cleared the way for the debt-ridden hotel owner Jens Wilhelm to throw out the Neo-Nazis, who had been occupying the premises amid a tense standoff with police and local anti-Nazi protesters, The Telegraph reports.

August 3rd, 2009 ONDON - Hitler's Nazi Germany was proving to be an unstoppable force in the early days of the Second World War, but the dictator made a series of strategic mistakes which resulted in his defeat, a new book has claimed. In his new book The Storm Of War, English Historian Andrew Roberts points out that Hitler should have settled matters with Britain before invading Russia during Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.

July 27th, 2009 BERLIN - Descendants of famous German composer Richard Wagner have decided to reveal their family's proximity to Adolf Hitler. The two great-granddaughters of Wagner, who held their first Bayreuth Festival this weekend, have promised to reveal whether their grandmother, Winifred Wagner, slept with Hitler, the Times Online reports.

July 27th, 2009 Vatican says pope fell looking for light switchROME — The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI was looking for a light switch in the bedroom of his Alpine chalet when he tripped and broke his wrist while on vacation 10 days ago. Papal spokesman the Rev.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - Henry Ford's automobile production techniques did not only revolutionize the car industry, but his methods and beliefs also had a huge effect on the infamous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, a new book has revealed. In 1920, Hitler's staff was astonished to see Ford's portrait hanging at the Nazi Party headquarters in Munich.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - German prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether a garden gnome with its right arm raised in a Heil Hitler salute breaks the law. According to The Times, the golden gnome has gone on display at an art gallery in Nuremberg, the Bavarian city that hosted huge Nazi party rallies before the Second World War and the major war crimes trials afterwards.alter Traeg, a spokesman for the Nuremberg public prosecutors office, said that investigators had to ascertain whether the gnome breached post-War laws banning Hitler salutes and other Nazi symbols.

June 24th, 2009 Obama to meet the pope while in Italy for G-8VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama will meet on July 10, a much-anticipated Vatican audience with a president under attack by some American bishops for his support of abortion rights. Vatican spokesman the Rev.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - A self-portrait by Adolf Hitler, which sold at an auction for 10,000 pounds - ten times its reserve price, is now being denounced as fake. When the painting, signed "A.

May 9th, 2009 Pope in Israel seeks closer Jewish-Catholic bondIn a wall of the tiny museum at Rome's majestic central synagogue hangs a copy of the 1555 edict of Pope Paul IV that confined the Jews to the ghetto, branding them as killers of Christ. The display stands as an permanent reminder of the tortured two-millennia history of Jewish-Catholic relations — an estrangement that only in the past 50 years has begun to heal.

March 16th, 2009 ROME - The Vatican and Washington are in the process of organising a meeting of Pope Benedict XVI with US President Barack Obama, according to media reports Sunday. It is possible that the two leaders would meet during Obama's first visit to Europe on the occasion of the G20 summit in London in April, US Vatican representative Thomas J.