Papst Pius XII. und sein „Schweigen“ über den Holocaust
The picture of a culpable Pope Pius XII. for the genocide of the Jews has consolidated itself in public opinion and in parts of academic literature. Here that reputation is questioned critically. 1. The exclusiveness of the focus on the "silence" in effect reduces the personality and the d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2005
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2005, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 40-67 |
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| Summary: | The picture of a culpable Pope Pius XII. for the genocide of the Jews has consolidated itself in public opinion and in parts of academic literature. Here that reputation is questioned critically. 1. The exclusiveness of the focus on the "silence" in effect reduces the personality and the duties of this Pope, whose long pontificate had to stand the test of world-historical upheaval. 2. In the speeches which he made between 1939 and 1945 (and already printed) Pius XII did indeed remember the racial persecution, but admittedly only in the context of his condemnation of the horrors of war altogether; for this he used the word "olocausto". 3. An explicit, public condemnation which dwelt solely on the killing of the Jews was not omitted because Pius XII was antisemitic or anti-Communist, or because he sought the preservation of the "eternal city" or the wellbeing of the German Catholics. Drafts of encyclicals from the 1930s and Pius XIFs own announcements after 1945 do indeed deal with the new phenomena of a totalitarianism of the "Right" as well as one of the "Left". |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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