Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
116,1 (2005) 63-77
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Church history 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
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History
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Judaism Relations 1945-
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Christianity
Abstract:
Catholic bishops in the Netherlands, under the leadership of Jan de Jong, Archbishop of Utrecht, protested repeatedly against Nazi measures and forbade Catholics to cooperate with the Nazis. With the beginning of the systematic mass deportation of Jews in July 1942, De Jong organized a protest of all the ten different Churches in the Netherlands, a singular joint action in which they sent a telegram to the occupation authorities. The telegram, supplemented by a theological explanation, was to be read out from all the pulpits two weeks later. Despite Nazi warnings of reprisals, which caused the Reform Church to retreat, in the Calvinist Reform churches and the Catholic churches the message was read out. The Nazis thereupon deported 114 Catholics of Jewish descent (among them Edith Stein), ca. 11.4% of all such Catholics in the Netherlands. After the war a myth spread that all the non-Aryan Catholics had been deported on this occasion; this event was used to justify Pope Pius XII, who purportedly had seen the events in the Netherlands as a warning to remain silent "in order to avoid worse consequences".
Description / Table of Contents:
Decker, Rainer. Der Vatikan und die niederländischen Juden 1943 - eine Richtigstellung. Ibid. 118,1 (2007) 106-109.
Description / Table of Contents:
Salemink, Theo A.M. Der Vatikan und die niederländischen Juden 1943 - eine zweite Richtigstellung. Ibid. 118,1 (2007) 110-111.
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