Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Interesting Paragraph Message-ID: <1318@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 12:34:42 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.1318 Posted: Thu Jan 3 12:34:42 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:02:09 EST References: <93@mit-athena.ARPA> <462@fisher.UUCP> Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Lines: 22 Summary: (8-line quote at end) Nazism was very bad news for Catholics in Europe. They were not true Aryans, and many were severely oppressed. It is not surprising that many Catholics realized this and fought the Nazis; it is also not too surprising that many Catholics refused to believe the worst of the Nazis and supported them. See the novels of heinrich Boell for eloquent statements concerning the conditions of German Catholics. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison In article <462@fisher.UUCP> david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) writes: >Interesting indeed. > >Not surprisingly, the segments of the German population mentioned >as being most likely to oppose the persecution of Jews... > only devout Catholics presented >something of a puzzle. If it was their Catholicism that was important, >why was Hitler's political support strongest in Bavaria? > David Rubin