Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Religion, State and Society
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,1 (2004) 37-51
Keywords:
Church history 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Christianity and antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Studies the wartime attitudes of local Catholic Church leaders in Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia towards Nazi deportations of Jews by examining their public protests or lack thereof, and their implicit or explicit support for anti-Jewish measures. Notes that the relation between the Catholic Church and fascism was ambiguous: they shared many political principles, but the Church opposed Nazi racism. Antisemitism, albeit in a non-racial form, was always present in the Church. Clerical members of parliament in Slovakia and Hungary voted in favor of anti-Jewish legislation. The Church hierarchs were quickly informed about the genocide of Jews; however, their protests were mainly on behalf of Jewish converts to Catholicism. At a later stage of the Holocaust, when the large scope of the mass murder became known, some of the hierarchs dared to denounce the persecution of Jews publicly. Most of them, torn apart by dilemmas, were either ambivalent in their statements (like Stepinac in Croatia) or remained passive (like Seredi in Hungary).
DOI:
10.1080/0963749042000182078
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