Volume 49, Number 20 · December 19, 2002
Jews and Catholics
By Istvan Deak
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Knopf, 362 pp., $25.00
Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners[1] must have been one of the most widely read American books on European history, and in Germany itself it was a best seller, even though it charges several generations of Germans with having been precisely what the title of the book says, the willing executioners of European Jewry. Many Americans, Europeans, and others have learned much of what they know about the Germans' role in the Shoah from Goldhagen's book and from the bitter controversy that erupted following its publication.[2] His publisher claims that his new book 'goes beyond anything previously written on the subject,' and that it 'cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust.'
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