Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism, Derek Hastings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), xv + 290 pp., cloth 29.95
The polemics surrounding the relationship between Catholicism and Nazism have become so bitter in recent years that a book like this one is bound to be misunderstood. That is a pity, because Derek Hastings has written a nuanced, careful study of the role Catholics played in the National Socialist Ge...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 314-316 |
| Review of: | Catholicism and the roots of Nazism (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Porter-Szűcs, Brian)
Catholicism and the roots of Nazism (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010) (Porter-Szűcs, Brian) Catholicism and the roots of Nazism (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Porter-Szűcs, Brian) |
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| Summary: | The polemics surrounding the relationship between Catholicism and Nazism have become so bitter in recent years that a book like this one is bound to be misunderstood. That is a pity, because Derek Hastings has written a nuanced, careful study of the role Catholics played in the National Socialist German Workers' Party during the early 1920s. He challenges both those who wish to portray the Church as complicit in the rise of the radical right and those who wish to absolve Catholicism of any ties to racial antisemitism. As Hastings points out in his conclusion, much of the debate over these issues involves people speaking past each other. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr031 |