The Vatican and the Holocaust
Subtitle: the Catholic Church and the Jews during the Nazi era
By: edited by Randolph L. Braham
Contributors: Braham, Randolph L
Series: Holocaust studies series; East European monographs
Publisher: Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Graduate Center/City University of New York; Social Science Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [New York]; Boulder, Col
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Foreign relations; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Description: "This volume deals with the attitude and reactions of the Vatican and the Christian churches to the persecution and destruction of the Jews of Europe during the Nazi era. The linkage between the long history of Christian anti-Judaism and the racial neo-pagan anti-Semitism of the Nazis constitutes one of the most controversial chapters in the history of the Holocaust.

It became a hotly debated ecclesiastical - historical issue after the end of World War II, inducing the Vatican and the Catholic episcopates in many parts of the world to begin confronting it honestly and courageously."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references