Roman Catholic officials and ratlines

[abaris]

Interesting, thank you. The works I'd read on the subject tend to focus more on the role of Ludwig Kaas acting under guidance from Pius XII than Papen in the Catholic/Nazi alliance, I didn't know that.  

Papen was instrumental, since he was the arbiter between the money men and Hindenburg. Hindenburg didn't like Hitler, but he sure liked Papen. On the other side was Hugenberg, the german Murdoch of the time, and the figurehead of the industrial barons, who also was in the first administration of 1933.