Volume 2, Number 10 · June 25, 1964
Hitler and the Catholics
By Walter Laqueur
The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
by Guenter Lewy
McGraw Hill, 416 pp., $7.50
Semen est sanguis Christianorum: when St. Ignatius was threatened with martyrdom he implored his captors to be given to the wild beasts 'for through them I can attain unto God.' When, some eighteen centuries later, the Catholic clergy in Nazi Germany was called to bear witness, the call went out to keep calm and not to 'lose sight of the welfare of the church as a whole.' The tragic failure of the Catholic Church to live up to its moral canons in the confrontation with Nazism is traced for the first time in shattering detail in this disturbing book, based on painstaking research into hitherto unpublished sources.
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