CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE HOLOCAUST, 1930-1965 by Phayer, Michael ISBN 0253214718
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An examination of the Catholic Church, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Using Church documents, it explores the actions of the Church and those of individual Catholics during the crucial period from the emergence of Hitler until the church's official rejection of anti-Semitism in 1965.
Throwing the spotlight relentlessly on Pius XII ('Hitler's Pope') has skewed the question surrounding Catholicism and the Holocaust, depriving us of a record of what the entire church did or did not do. Such a record is provided for the first time in the Michael Phayer's compelling book. Phayer shows that without effective church leadership under Pius XII, Catholics acted ambiguously during the Holocaust - some saving Jews, others helping Hitler murder them, the majority simply standing by. After the Holocaust, with Pope John XXIII at the helm, the church moved swiftly to rid itself of centuries-long anti-Semitic tradition. The Catholic Church's official silence during the Holocaust, its anti-Semitism, and its apparent lack of action to save lives have all been part of a long historical discussion. Making extensive use of church documents, Michael Phayer explores the actions of the Catholic Church and the actions of individual Catholics during the crucial period from the emergence of Hitler until the church's official rejection of anti-Semitism in 1965. The Holocaust ended in 1945 but the Catholic Church did not come to terms with the Shoah until 1965. How this occurred is a story worth telling. Those who perpetrated the Holocaust committed suicide at the end of the war, or were tried and executed after it, or vanished into obscurity. But the men and women who resisted the Holocaust lived on after it to help bring an end to the church's equivocal stand on anti-Semitism.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE HOLOCAUST, 1930-1965
[edit] Author
Phayer, Michael
[edit] ISBN
0253214718
[edit] Published
30/09/2001
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Indiana University Press
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paperback
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