Wir haben es nicht gewusst.

The Vatican’s rehabilitation of Holocaust denier and anti-Semite bishop Richard Williamson keeps haunting the present Pope. The Vatican and many clergymen try to make the people believe that the Pope did not know about the Holocaust denial of Williamson at the time of the removal of his ban.

This is nonsense, for three reasons.

First, the official announcement of the rehabilitation of Richard Williamson and three other ultraconservative
Many clergymen try to make the people believe that the Pope did not know about the Holocaust denial of Williamson.
bishops was made on Saturday, January 24 (see the Vatican Information Service, volume 19, no. 16). The decree itself was signed by the Pope three days earlier, but had not yet been announced publicly. That same date, January 21, Swedish television SVT broadcast the notorious interview with Williamson. In the interview, he declared that during World War II no Jews had been gassed in gas chambers, and that ‘only’ 200,000 to 300,000 Jews had died in Nazi concentration camps. These remarks immediately caused a lot of consternation in the press.

British newspaper The Guardian (on January 22nd) and, among others, Il Giornale and Le Monde (January 23) reported the remarks about the Holocaust denial. On January 23, head rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, reported to the Vatican that the rehabilitation of Holocaust denier Williamson would lead to a "deep wound" between the Church and the Jewish community.

Nevertheless, the Vatican decided to continue the decree and the next day it was officially announced.

Second, Williamson’s remarks denying the Holocaust were known earlier. Already in 1989, in a sermon in the Notre Dame de Lourdes church in Sherbrooke, Canada, Williamson said that "the Jews have made up the Holocaust." In a letter dated May 1, 2000, Williamson wrote that God handed to Man the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and thus Man can see the truth (that the Jews want to dominate the world). On March 5, 2008, the Catholic Herald, the most important British Catholic newspaper, issued a supplement denouncing the fact that Williamson declared the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as authentic. The Protocols were used by the Nazis to justify the Endlösung.

In a letter from March 1, 2008, Williamson reiterates his statement that the Jews have murdered God and that the Jews have brought a curse on themselves: "His blood comes over us and over our children," referring to Matthew 27:25, which was used by the Nazi SS to justify the genocide of the Jews.

Third, two days after ultraconservative French Archbishop Marcel Lefèbvre in 1988 ordained four bishops (among whom was Williamson), which resulted in the excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church, the committee Ecclesia Dei, devoted to reconcile the Church and the ‘rebels’, was established. In 2001 then-cardinal, and presently Pope, Ratzinger joined the committee and was a member until he became Pope in 2005. For four year was in the front row, witnessing the doings of the later rehabilitated bishops, including Richard Williamson. It is almost impossible that he did not know what Williamson thought, wrote and said.

It is also interesting to know that one of those other rehabilitated bishops also made anti-Semitic remarks. In 1997, French bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais called the Jews "the most active militants for the coming of the
So, the "Wir haben es nicht gewusst" by Benedict XVI is a lie.
Antichrist." In an interview in 2008, he revolted against the policy of the Church since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), referring to the "occupation (encouraged by the Jews) of the Chair of Pete by foreign, anti-Christian ideology which denied the holiness of Jesus Christ." This criticism of a member of the Pius X brotherhood of priests, who rejects Nostra Aetate (the document in which the Second Vatican Council rejects the idea that the Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus Christ), is well known in the Vatican.

So, the Wir haben es nicht gewusst by Benedict XVI is a lie. It reminds one of Robert Leiber, secretary to World War II Pope Pius XII for 34 years, who in 1963 declared that his boss did not know exactly what happened during the war. Leiber’s statement was eagerly accepted by admirers of Pius XII. However, the statement failed to convince. When the Actes et Documents du Saint Siège, almost 8,000 pages of documents from the Vatican about World War II, were made public between 1965 and 1981, it became abundantly clear that Pius XII was well-informed about the Nazi crimes in general, and the annihilation of the Jews in particular. Nevertheless, the Vatican wants to beatify and declare holy even this Pope, who morally failed to help the Jews.