Holocaust and Catholic Conscience, The Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany

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Author:

Brown-Fleming, Suzanne.

ISBN:

9780268076221

Personal Author:

Brown-Fleming, Suzanne.

Publication Information:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2006. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 240 p. )

Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE.

General Note:

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Contents:

Introduction : Aloisius Muench and the question of guilt and responsibility -- The life and career of Aloisius Muench -- Excusing the Holocaust : the sensation of one world in charity -- Comfort and consensus : Aloisius Muench and the German Catholic hierarchy, clergy, and laity -- Granting absolution : Muench and the Catholic clemency campaign -- The longest hatred -- Conclusion : the Holocaust and Catholic conscience.

Personal Subject:

Muench, Aloisius J. (Aloisius Joseph), 1889-1962.

Corporate Subject:

Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.

Subject Term:

Christianity and antisemitism -- History -- 20th century.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Geographic Term:

Germany -- History -- 1945-1955.

Germany -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.

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