The haulocaust was the industrialization of genocide.

War is bad, but genocide is pure evil.

World War II was already well underway by 1943.

What *further* evil was he worried about?

That was the Church's greatest fear. Commies were atheists.

Refusing to acknowledge the worst of the drumpf offenses even while their parishioners are dying because of the incompetence of the drumpf cabal in ensuring an appropriate response to a possible pandemic? Just like they tolerate the caging and killing of small children because "illegals", they will also condone assmouths' response to COVID-19.

Virtually every government in Europe and North America was as opposed to communism as the Axis powers. I think the Church sided with Hitler and Mussolini because the Church had long favored authoritarianism over liberal democracy, and saw in fascism the opportunity to fend off secularism and reassert its authority.

There were three main parties, the Nazis (who called themselves socialists, but weren't), the Socialist Democrats, and the Communists. Only the Nazis were theists, so the church sided with them.

It had more to do with traditional church politics than communism. Social Democrats were also opposed to communism, but they didn't have a role for the Church in their style of government.

And being totally honest, I think the Church kind of sided with the Nazis by default. They'd already backed Mussolini and Franco; they really couldn't have backed anyone else in Germany but Franco's and Mussolini's allies/analogs.