Church officials were disturbed by Rosenberg's appointment, Hitler's endorsement of Rosenberg's anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, neo-pagan philosophy. The Vatican directed its Holy Office to place The Myth of the Twentieth Century on its Index Librorum Prohibitorum on 7 February 1934.Gill, 1994. Rosenberg reportedly had little or no influence on government decisions, and was marginalized;Joachim Fest, The Face of the Third Reich, pp. 247–64 Hitler called his book "derivative, pastiche, illogical rubbish".Joachim Fest, The Face of the Third Reich, p. 255
