Printer Friendly
The Free Library
14,505,384 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

Nazi Germany's Anti-Christian plans. (Insider Report).


Daniel Jonah Goldhagen wrote in the January 21st issue of The New Republic, "[A]ntisemitism's marginalized place in the canonical accounts An account that has the same structure and password on all systems or software at the time of installation. Examples include voice-mail accounts that use their own extension number as their passwords, support accounts whose canonical passwords are always "support" and guest accounts with  of Western history may be owed to a simple fact: that the main responsibility for producing this all-time leading Western hatred lies with Christianity. More specifically, with the Catholic Church." Not true. Not only did the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations List of Christian denominations (or Denominations self-identified as Christian) ordered by historical and doctrinal relationships. (See also: Christianity; Christian denominations).

Some groups are large (e.g.
 oppose Hitler's oppression, but the Nazi regime was anti-Christian.

Rutgers University Rutgers University, main campus at New Brunswick, N.J.; land-grant and state supported; coeducational except for Douglass College; chartered 1766 as Queen's College, opened 1771. Campuses and Facilities


Rutgers maintains three campuses.
 law students have been compiling documents showing that the Nazi regime actually intended to abolish Christianity. Known as the Nuremberg Project, law students have gathered and edited primary source documents compiled by American prosecutors who submitted them as evidence during the 1946 Nuremberg War Crimes trial. In January, Rutgers University posted the project's first installment on its website. Entitled "The Persecution of the Christian Churches," the installment outlined the Nazi plan to repress re·press
v.
1. To hold back by an act of volition.

2. To exclude something from the conscious mind.
 and ultimately abolish Christianity in order to establish a national religion devoted to the Reich.

The January 13th New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times reported that although Nazi Germany had initially entered into a cooperative pact with the Catholic Church, "soon after Hitler assumed dictatorial powers, 'relations between the Nazi state and the church became progressively worse.'" Even as early as 1937, "Nazi street mobs, often in the company of the Gestapo, routinely stormed offices in Protestant and Catholic churches where clergymen were seen as lax in their support of the regime."

The law students also documented how the Gestapo attacked and shipped off to concentration camps priests, bishops, and Protestant clergymen who publicly spoke out against the murderous mur·der·ous  
adj.
1. Capable of, guilty of, or intending murder: a group of murderous thugs.

2.
 acts of the Nazi regime. This historical compilation showed that ultimately the Nazis planned to "subvert and destroy German Christianity," because doing so was "an integral part of the National Socialist Adj. 1. national socialist - relating to a form of socialism; "the national socialist party came to power in Germany in 1933"
Nazi
 scheme of world conquest."
COPYRIGHT 2002 American Opinion Publishing, Inc.
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2002, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:The New American
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUGE
Date:Feb 11, 2002
Words:298
Previous Article:Religious persecution in China. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
Next Article:NYC Mayor calls for institutionalized abortion training. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
Topics:



Related Articles
The rediscovery of evil.(Jewish Holocaust)(Column)
Where's papa? (anti-Semitic aspects of Christianity)(Column)
The final obscenity. (the history of anti-semitism, leading up to the Holocaust)
Earlier reply (Holocaust and the Roman Catholic Church).
Reflections on the Vatican's 'Reflection on the Shoah.'.(Roman Catholic document 'We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah')
SCRUTINY & THEN SOME : The church & the Holocaust.(debate on influence of Catholic Church on modern antisemitism)(Brief Article)
Hitler's handlers.(WHAT HITLER KNEW: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy by Zachary Shore Oxford University Press)
My 39 cents.(Tilting at Windmills)
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: a reply to Daniel Goldhagen.(Comment)(Critical Essay)
Teens against the total state: in 1941 Nazi Germany, the brave actions of three teens proved that even Hitler's Third Reich could not deter some...

Terms of use | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles