"His father had been the head of a Catholic school in Munich, before he became a private tutor to Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria, in that royal court where his uncle, the Jesuit Father Himmler, had been canon."

"Knowing this, it is easier to understand that Kurt Heinrich Himmler, an odd person himself, should have been able to rise to the highest functions. Someone must have been pulling these puppet's strings. Was it not his uncle, the Jesuit father, who had been promoted as a high-ranking officer of the SS?"

"I learned most of all from the Jesuit order. Hitler told me. 'So far, there has been nothing more imposing on earth than the hierarchical organizations of the Catholic Church. A good part of that organization I have transported to my own party... The Catholic Church must be held up as an example... I will tell you a secret, I am founding an order..."

"After the war, this secret imported by the Fuhrer was enlarged upon by the revelations of Walter Schellenberg who had been Chief of the German counter-espionage and Leader of the National Socialist Government Danzig..."

"The SS had been organized by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit order. The rules of service and spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola constituted a model which Himmler strove carefully to copy. Absolute obedience was the supreme rule; every order had to be executed without comment."

• Edmond Paris, The Vatican against Europe, pages 249-253.