CATHOLIC RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD REICH
Scholars such as Guenter Lewy have established that the institutional Catholic Church capitulated to Nazism and traded moral leadership for institutional survival. The following study suggests that Catholic priests and laity resisted Nazism, for example, both by opposing racist antisemitism as moral...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1988
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1988, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-186 |
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Summary: | Scholars such as Guenter Lewy have established that the institutional Catholic Church capitulated to Nazism and traded moral leadership for institutional survival. The following study suggests that Catholic priests and laity resisted Nazism, for example, both by opposing racist antisemitism as morally wrong and by using such an approach as a vehicle for confronting totalitarianism. Ultimately, the regime's documents themselves indicate that neither the Nazi state nor the Catholic Church were the monoliths that earlier scholarship portrayed. |
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ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/3.2.171 |