You're obviously an educated man with a good heart Joe, thanks for a sensible and sensitive reply. My original comment concerning Hitler was not meant to imply a causal relationship, but to illustrate that if the Church were capable of denying that Hitler's Catholic upbringing and education had nothing to do with his anti-semitism and apparent religious fervour, they could hardly be trusted to come clean about the odd buggered choirboy unless they were absolutely forced. European anti-semitism was already rife well before Hitler exploited it, and it originated in Christianity, not Hitler. It is (merely) my opinion that Hitler was carrying on where Torquemada left off - ridding society of (mostly) Jews on behalf of "God". I think the connection is well beyond the realms of coincidence, albeit that my opinion may be from beyond the borders of insanity.

An interesting observation on Catholic education though: I've a large proportion of friends, a sister, and a partner who aren't stupid, and went to various Catholic schools - so far none of them knew Hitler was a Catholic, and none of them had the faintest idea who Torquemada was. Make what you will of that.

Technically I'm not actually Jewish by the way, but I do have a bit of Polish background that I feel very strongly about.