Membership in the Nazi Party: Is that OK, Father? When thinking of the reason why the German Catholic Church thought it proper to lift the ban on membership in the Nazi Party in 1933 one needs to think of what the church stands for. If the church felt that the Nazi...
The Fear to Act on Behalf of the Jews: Making the Situation Worse – Really? Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church, and the cohorts of church apologists today, often argued that the pope had to remain silent about the mass extermination of Jews during the Second...
The Weapon the Church Didn’t Use:The Threat of Excommunication Papal apologists often dismiss excommunication as a powerful tool. Yet, the Catholic Church could have used it during the Holocaust to persuade the faithful from refraining to participate in any way in...
Defining “Non-Aryan”: Cutting Through the Fog For the layman, sometimes it’s hard to know what things actually mean. After all, one cannot be an expert on everything, so we must rely on others whom we trust. The problem of course is that even when we read information...
Causes of the Holocaust What were the causes of the Holocaust? This is a complex question in the history of the Holocaust, but not an intractable one. It turns out there are several reasons why the German people and their helpers during World War II rose to round up...
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