Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou4b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou4b!mat From: mat@hou4b.UUCP (Mark Terribile) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Interesting Paragraph Message-ID: <1252@hou4b.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 21:37:41 EST Article-I.D.: hou4b.1252 Posted: Fri Jan 4 21:37:41 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 03:49:39 EST References: <462@fisher.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 22 > the segments of the German population mentioned as being most likely to > oppose the persecution of Jews were precisely the most educated ... > 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... Perhaps. Remember also that some individuals and organizations within the Catholic hierarchy placed themselves at considerable risk to help oppressed people escape -- and the most identifiable group was the Jews. As a Catholic, I am appalled and ashamed at the centuries of atrocities that have been perpetrated in the name of my religion ... and filled with respect for the true heros within it. But the same hierarchy that could be mobilized to cause harm was also sometimes mobilized to stand in harm's way. I'm sure that most of the readers of this group know more about what happened in Europe in the '30s and '40s than I do. -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape .. dig ) hou4b!mat ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*.