Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Interesting Paragraph Message-ID: <462@fisher.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 09:01:46 EST Article-I.D.: fisher.462 Posted: Thu Jan 3 09:01:46 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:01:56 EST References: <93@mit-athena.ARPA> Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics Lines: 17 Interesting indeed. Not surprisingly, the segments of the German population mentioned as being most likely to oppose the persecution of Jews were precisely the most educated (white-collar males). Political conservatism is also not a surprising attribute, as such conservatives were all that was left of the democratic center in most of Germany following the polarization of the 1920's. Of the groups enumerated by Gordon in the paragraph excerpted by Martillo, 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? If it was their piety which was important, why Catholics and not, say, Lutherans? Perhaps it is all a statistical illusion...there were more Catholics that any other religious sect in Germany, and thus more opponents just happened to be Catholic. David Rubin