Signature Of The Concordat Between The Vatican And Germany

VATICAN - JULY 25: At the Vatican. The prelate KASS, Cardinal PACELLI who was Secretary of State to Pope PIUS XI (and the future PIUS XII), BUTTMANN from the Reich Interior Ministry and the Germany Embassy councilor KLEE (from left to right) sign the Concordat between Germany and the Vatican. This Concordat, negotiated between the vice-chancellor of the Reich VON PAPEN and Cardinal PACELLI, nuncio at Berlin from 1920 to 1929 and specialist in German spiritual affairs, stipulated that the German state would remunerate the priests. This Concordat is seen today as an attempt by Cardinal PACELLI to prevent the development in Germany of a pagan state for the Holy See saw in the theories of Nazism a sort of paganism. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)