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The Holocaust and Catholic Conscience - Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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The Holocaust and Catholic Conscience - Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure
in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust,
Jews, and Judaism between 1946 and 1959. He was arguably the most
powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican
representative in occupied Germany and in West Germany after the
war. In this carefully researched book, which draws on Muench's
collected papers, Suzanne Brown-Fleming offers the first assessment
of Muench's legacy and provides a rare glimpse into his commentary
on Nazism, the Holocaust, and surviving Jews. She argues that
Muench legitimized the Catholic Church's failure during this period
to confront the nature of its own complicity in Nazism's
anti-Jewish ideology. The archival evidence demonstrates that
Muench viewed Jews as harmful in a number of very specific ways. He
regarded German Jews who had immigrated to the United States as
"aliens," he believed Jews to be "in control" of American
policy-making in Germany, he feared Jews as "avengers" who wished
to harm "victimized" Germans, and he believed Jews to be
excessively involved in leftist activities. Muench's standing and
influence in the United States, Germany, and the Vatican
hierarchies gave sanction to the idea that German Catholics needed
no examination of conscience in regard to the Church's actions (or
inactions) during the 1940s and 1950s. This fascinating story of
Muench's role in German Catholic consideration-and ultimate
rejection-of guilt and responsibility for Nazism in general and the
persecution of European Jews in particular will be an important
addition to scholarship on the Holocaust and to church history.
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