Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Civiltà Cattolica
Angaben zur Quelle:
3686 (2004) 116-129
Keywords:
Catholic Church Relations
;
Judaism
;
Catholic Church History 1933-1945
;
Antisemitism
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Catholic Church
Abstract:
Examines the reaction of the Vatican to the Nazi antisemitic legislation of April 1933, which was timid and generic. The Vatican preferred not to get involved, and delegated eventual acts of public protest to the German bishops, who limited their protests to cases of physical violence against Jews and Jewish property or of persecution of Jewish converts to Catholicism. The Vatican's view was that a public protest on its part would be interpreted as interference in German internal affairs, endangering Catholic institutions and individuals. In addition, at the beginning of the Nazi regime, the Vatican did not grasp its dangerous character when compared to communism. The Vatican condemned the Nazi regime later on, for instance in Pius XI's encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" (1937).
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