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I gave the source. Manfred Barthel, "The Jesuits: History and Legend of the Society of Jesus (New York, 1984), It was based on the testimony of Walter Shellenberg ((Chief of the Nazi Sicherheitdienst (SD))Please provide the primary source for this quote. Where exactely is Hitler supposed to have written or said this?
What follows is a similar quotation of Hitler taken from Edmond Paris’ book The Vatican Against Europe.
“I have learnt most of all from the Jesuit Order. …So far, there has been nothing more imposing on earth than the hierarchical organization of the [Roman] Catholic Church. A good part of that organization I have transported direct to my own [Nazi] party. …The Catholic Church must be held up as an example. …I will tell you a secret. I am founding an order [Ed. Note: the Nazi SS]. …In [Heinrich] Himmler [who would become head of the Nazi SS] I see our Ignatius de Loyola [Ed. Note: the founder of the Jesuit Order].” – Adolph Hitler
“The SS had been organized by [Heinrich] Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. The rules of service and spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola [Ed. Note: the founder of the Jesuit Order] constituted a model which [Heinrich] Himmler strove carefully to copy. Absolute obedience was the supreme rule; every order had to be executed without comment.” Walter Shellenberg ((Chief of the Nazi Sicherheitdienst (SD))