Contents
Introduction
1. Catholic Attitudes Toward Jews Before the Holocaust
2. Genocide before the Holocaust: Poland, 1939
3. Genocide before the Holocaust: Croatia, 1941
4. The Holocaust and the Priorities of Pope Pius XII
5. In the Eye of the Storm: German Bishops and the Holocaust
6. European Bishops and the Holocaust
7. Catholic Rescue Efforts during the Holocaust
8. Answering for the Holocaust: The United States Confronts
Germany
9. The Holocaust and the Priorities of Pope Pius XII during the
Cold War
10. Catholics and Jews after the Holocaust
11. The Holocaust Recalled, Antisemitism Renounced: The Second
Vatican Council
12. Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
An important new examination of the Church, the Holocaust, and antisemitism.
Michael Phayer is Professor of History at Marquette University.
His two most recent books, Protestant Catholic Women in Nazi
Germany and (with Eva Fleischner) Cries in the Night: Women Who
Challenged the Holocaust, deal
extensively with Catholic-Jewish relations before and during the
Shoah.
"Very valuable ... a fine and judicious book ... " --Istvan Deak, New York Review of Books "A well-reasoned but damning overview of the Vatican's response to Nazi atrocities during and after WWII... A fair and even-tempered account of a volatile subject." --Kirkus Reviews "Phayer makes an important addition to the literature of Holocaust studies: he provides evidence that Pope Pius XII ... knew in early 1942 what was happening to Europe's Jews ... yet he remained silent... " --Publishers Weekly "Phayer has written a singularly important book on the role of the Catholic Church in both the Holocaust and its aftermath, up to and including Vatican II. Diligently researched and documented, judicious in its conclusions, comprehensive in its scope, compassionate and humane in its outlook, this book is an indispensable resource..." -Richard L. Rubenstein "Phayer's study of [the Catholic Church] as an actor in the tumultuous history of this century will serve as a model for other historians." -Donald J. Dietrich, Boston College
"Very valuable ... a fine and judicious book ... " --Istvan Deak, New York Review of Books "A well-reasoned but damning overview of the Vatican's response to Nazi atrocities during and after WWII... A fair and even-tempered account of a volatile subject." --Kirkus Reviews "Phayer makes an important addition to the literature of Holocaust studies: he provides evidence that Pope Pius XII ... knew in early 1942 what was happening to Europe's Jews ... yet he remained silent... " --Publishers Weekly "Phayer has written a singularly important book on the role of the Catholic Church in both the Holocaust and its aftermath, up to and including Vatican II. Diligently researched and documented, judicious in its conclusions, comprehensive in its scope, compassionate and humane in its outlook, this book is an indispensable resource..." -Richard L. Rubenstein "Phayer's study of [the Catholic Church] as an actor in the tumultuous history of this century will serve as a model for other historians." -Donald J. Dietrich, Boston College
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