内容简介
In this book Daniel
Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay
out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the
Holocaust, transforming a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius
XII into the long-overdue investigation of the Church throughout
Europe. He shows that the Church's and the Pope's complicity in the
persecution of the Jews was much deeper than has been understood.
The Church's leaders were fully aware of the persecutions and they
did not speak out and urge resistance. Instead, they supported many
aspects of the persecution. Some clergy even took part in the mass
murder. But Goldhagen goes further and develops a new, precise way
for assessing the Church and its clergy's culpability. He then
shows that the Church has, even according to its own doctrine, an
unacknowledged duty of repair. He explores this duty, analyzes the
Church's tactics of evasion, and delineates all that the Church
must do to repair the harm it inflicted on Jews and to heal
itself.