Christianity provided a religious motivation for many to commit individual acts of kindness and rescue during the Holocaust, but it also provided religious justifications for antisemitism. Antisemitic interpretations of Christian doctrine were popular throughout Europe for centuries, and few in the German Catholic or Protestant churches publicly protested the Nazis' persecution of Jews.
Christianity
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Americans and the Holocaust
"American Churches to Hitler"
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Americans and the Holocaust
"Anti-Jewish Movement Opposed"
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Americans and the Holocaust
"Can America Afford to Condemn Hitler for His Racial Policies?"
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Americans and the Holocaust
"Desecration of Religion"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
"On the Danger of Forced Conversion"
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Americans and the Holocaust
"Personal View of the German Churches Under the Revolution"
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Americans and the Holocaust
"Report on the Work of the Refugee Committee"
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Americans and the Holocaust
"The Ethical Problems of Neutrality: A Columbus Day Sermon of Rediscovering America"
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Americans and the Holocaust
“Plan to Bring German Refugees Here Approved in Survey of College Opinion”
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Americans and the Holocaust
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam at Buchenwald
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Americans and the Holocaust
Broadcast from Catholic University of America after Kristallnacht
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Decision in the Case of Franz Josef Seitz
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Americans and the Holocaust
Ebba Anderson to Pastor M. E. N. Lindsay
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Film of Sinti Children at Catholic Children's Home
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Americans and the Holocaust
Interview with Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill
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Americans and the Holocaust
Letter from J. L. Published in The Golden Age
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Americans and the Holocaust
Letter from Reverend Hugh M. Newlands to His "Jewish Friends and Neighbors"
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Americans and the Holocaust
Louise Kleuser to J. L. McEhlany
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Americans and the Holocaust
Robert Durr: “Oh, Church Wake Up, For the Sake of Peace”
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
USHMM Interview with Gideon Frieder