BENEDICT XVI - A NEW STAGE IN THE CATHOLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SHOAH? (Benedykt XVI - nowy etap katolickiego rozumienia Shoa)

• Authors: Bartos Tadeusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Benedict XVI's speech in Auschwitz may be interpreted as a form of justification of the Germans' submissiveness toward the Nazi ideology. The Pope did not probe into the Germans' enthusiasm for the Nazis (Christian anti-Semitism, for instance), he also avoided the subject of passiveness and submissiveness of German churches to the Nazis, which failed the test of that time. Accusing atheism of being a source of Nazi crimes serves as means of averting one's eyes from one's own guilt.

Keywords

EN

BENEDICT XVI; CATHOLIC CHURCH AND HOLOCAUST

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 296-298
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bartos Tadeusz

• Tadeusz Bartos, Akademia Humanistyczna im. A. Gieysztora w Pultusku, ul. Staszica 35, 06-100 Pultusk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA083811