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The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, by Guenter Lewy

1965; Oxford University Press; Volume: 80; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2147018

1538-165X

Raúl Hilberg,

Catholicism and Religious Studies

The subject matter of this book is controversial, Guenter Lewy states plainly in his preface. To show the German Catholic Church's congeniality with some of the goals of National Socialism and its gradual entrapment in Nazi policies and programs, Lewy describes the episcopate's support of Hitler's expansionist policies and its failures to speak out on the persecution of the Jews. To this tragic history Lewy brings new focus and research, illuminating one of the darkest corners of our century with scholarship and intellectual honesty in a riveting, and often painful, narrative.