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Implementation of the Holocaust: The Behavior of Nazi Officials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Fred E. Katz
Fred E. Katz
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The Johns Hopkins University
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Historical research has supplied extensive information about the stark facts of the Holocaust. It includes efforts both to document the full extent of the horror and to maintain a degree of objectivity and avoid undue sentimentality (Bauer 1978). The historical work includes, and goes beyond, chronicling the details of the murderous events. It points up unresolved-and possibly unresolvable-questions, such as the nature of the involvement and responsibility of European Christians. That issue involves, at one end, the accusation that Pope Pius XII was, at the very least, inactive in the face of a supreme moral challenge (Falconi 1970). At another end, it involves acknowledgement of extensive efforts by Christians to protect Jews, at considerable risk to themselves (Friedman 1980; Flender 1963).

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Genocide
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , July 1982 , pp. 510 - 529
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1982

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