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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Interesting Paragraph
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 09:01:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  3 09:01:46 1985
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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