The Jesuits Who Ran the Third Reich (Part III).
Fr. Bernhard Stempfle S. J., The Ghost-Writer of Mein Kampf.
Bernhard Stempfle was a German Catholic priest, theologian, and publicist. He became particularly well-known as the publisher and political editor of the rabidly anti-Jewish newspaper Miesbacher Anzeiger in the 20’s, where he tirelessly wrote concerning the perceived destructive influence of Jewish atheism and the necessity of a ruthless persecution of Jews to defend the faith and institutions of the Catholic Church. In the years before WWI, he wrote for the Corriere della Sera and various other German and Italian newspapers. He likewise also published articles in newspapers such as the Völkischer Beobachter and the Oberbayerische Landeszeitung since 1919. Stempfle’s rise in prominence as a publisher quickly garnered him the reputation as being the "anti-Semitic bishop" of Miesbach. In 1929, Stempfle became head of the NSDAP (Nazi) party archive in Munich and oversaw the private NSDAP museum. According to the recollections of Hitler's foreign press chief Ernst Hanfstaengl¹, Stempfle became a regular guest at Hitler's regular corner table at the Café Heck on Galeriestraße in Munich. This is where Hitler’s early inner circle met, of whom Stempfle was a prominent member, according to the memoirs of Hitler’s personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann.² Stempfle served as one of Hitler’s chief advisors in the early years and according to one German historian he also regularly functioned as Hitler’s personal confessor.³ Above all, the most salient truth about Stempfle that has been deliberately buried by modern historians is the fact that
Professor David Clay Large states,
“Flattering photography, however, was not the only service that Hoffmann rendered to Hitler. He welcomed the Nazi leader into his comfortable home in Schwabing, where Hitler could chat with the photographer’s many friends, including Ernst Röhm and an priest named Bernhard Stempfle, who edited a scurilous racist rag called the Miesbacher Anzeiger.”
-Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich by David Clay Large, pg. 153.
Eugene Davidson, the tenured editor of Yale University Press writes,
“a Jesuit priest, Bernhard Stempfle, who had been on the staff of the anti-Semitic Miesburger Anzeiger and had been associated with the publication of the first edition of Mein Kampf, was apparently killed without Hitler's knowledge. Hitler was later quoted by his photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, as having called the men who killed Stempfle ‘swine,’ and one German historian believes it possible that they were the three SS men who appeared on the list of those shot ‘for shameful mishandling of prisoners under protective arrest.’” -The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler by Eugene Davidson, pg. 80.
3rd degree Knight of Columbus and former editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune TD Conner pens,
“Finally, Hitler was granted early release. He left the prison on December 20 1924. He was befriended by a Jesuit priest, Father Bernard Stempfle… The Jesuit priest who had become friendly with Hitler and who helped edit Mein Kampf after his release from prison…” -Demolition Man: Hitler from Braunau to the Bunker by TD Conner, see pgs. 408, 484-485, 562.⁴
Concerning Mein Kampf, Historian and Professor Robert Waite types,
“It was gone over by Father Bernard Stempfle, a Jesuit editor of an anti-Semitic newspaper.” -The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler by Robert G. L. Waite, pg. 72.
Hitler’s photographer Heinrich Hoffmann recalls,
“I ran into my friend, Hermann Esser, a member of Hitler’s inner circle… Another prominent member of the circle, a man of strong personality, was Professor Stempfle, an priest.” -Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer by Heinrich Hoffmann, pgs. 45, 52.
https://archive.org/details/hitlermissingyea0000hanf/page/132/mode/1up?q=Heck https://archive.org/details/hitlermissingyea0000hanf/page/132/mode/1up?q=Heck https://archive.org/details/hitlermissingyea0000hanf/page/132/mode/1up?q=Heck pg. 132.
²See full quotation above.
³Bevor Hitler kam. Eine Historische Studie by Dietrich Bronder 1st Ed. (‘64), pg. 240.
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