Argues that Aloisius Muench, arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and in West Germany after the war, legitimized the Catholic Church's failure during this period to confront the nature of its own complicity in Nazism's anti-Jewish ideology.
Argues that Aloisius Muench, arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and in ...
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...
American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust, Jews, and Judai...
Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world,, this compelling volume provides new insights into human decision-making in genocidal settings, the factors that drive it, and its far-reaching consequences.
Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositor...
