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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Churches and Christian Leaders in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustReport on Pastor Paul Schneider in Buchenwald
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American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
Americans and the HolocaustRobert Durr: “Oh, Church Wake Up, For the Sake of Peace”
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Churches and Christian Leaders in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustTelegram from Evangeline Booth to the Office of Adolf Hitler