1.what was the role of the catholic church during the holocaust?

Question

2. Some 63 million people, or 3% of the world population, died in the war (though estimates vary): WHY IS THE SOLE FOCUS ONLY ON THE JEWISH POPULATION?
3.WHAT MAKES THE JEWS WHO DIED MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE REST OF THE POPULATION?The Holocaust refers to the organized state-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews,BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE PEOPLE?

Answer 1

It is only right to place the Jews first on the list of the Nazis' victims. The 6,000,000 Jews (1,500,00 million of these being children) represented two-thirds of all Jews in Europe and one-third of all Jews worldwide.

However millions of Catholics and other Christians were also killed. No one knows exactly how many. I've seen claims of up to 42,000,000 but I could not find documentation for this number.

One example, over 6 million Poles perished during WWII. That was 22% of the population of the country. Three million were Jews. Most of the rest were Catholics.

Also remember most the the allied military dead were Christians.

A Soviet KGB plot to implicate Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church with the Nazis in the Holocaust has recently been uncovered. See these articles:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTUzYmJhMGQ5Y2UxOWUzNDUyNWUwODJiOTEzYjY4NzI=
http://www.the-tidings.com/2007/021607/difference.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church as an institution could do nothing to help because of where it was based (Italy, Germany's ally). Also, in speaking out against what Germany was doing, the Catholic Church would condemn their own people to the same fate. Why add to the casualty rate. However, individual priests, sisters, brothers etc...housed those fleeing the Germans. However, Catholics were persecuted by the Germans in the later years of the war. Anyone who dared to go against the ideals of the Nazi party were persecuted.

The Jewish population comprised a majority of the people who died in the Concentration Camps which later became death camps. That is why most history books focus on the amount of Jews that died. Hitler targeted Jews, specifically. In his speeches the only population he mentioned by name was the Jewish populaion. Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems after WWI. I also think your estimate is a little off on the amount of casualties. The world population at the time was less than two billion. Cut your estimate in half.

Lastly, the definition of a holocaust is the systematic elimination of a specific race, religion, or ethnicity, very similar to aparthied. HItler systematically tried to eradicate the Jewish religion. That is not to say the others who were targeted weren't improtant. It's just that it was the Jews who were targeted specifically.

Answer 3

History shows us the Catholic Church took a neutral stance on the Jewish Problem. The German Army on the most part were Catholics. The Catholic leadership did not murder Jews. But what they did was called the "blind eye approach."

History shows that many of the Hitler henchmen were from the Catholic religion. The Jews were the most targeted part of the Nazi scheme. The "Final Solution" was to eradicate the entirety of the Jewish population. There was no plan to eradicate any other groups of humanity.

The truth is like beautiful white clouds that beautify the blue skies. Thank God for the beauty of truth.

With love in Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

The role of the Catholic Church was to help all of those in need, and to survive the madness of The Nazi murderers that came very close to destroying Western Civilization. Although the Jewish people were at the center of the elimination of the Nazi Regime there were many other groups including Catholics in Poland and other Slavic Countries that were also systematically killed. Many of these other groups that were murdered were because they were perceived as inferior, NON Aryan and would contaminate The Master Race plan.

Answer 5

the clarification why some accuse the Catholic church of being professional-nazi is as a results of the fact there wasn't relatively any respected condemnation of the Nazi's in the process the conflict. This replaced into simply by fact the Church did no longer choose for to furnish any excuse to Hitler to extra incite his hatred against the Jews and Catholics. Secretly, besides the undeniable fact that, the Church did help cover and shop hundreds of Jews even on the fee of the lives of Catholic clergy. After the conflict the supervisor Jewish Rabbi of Rome, Rabbi Zolli, switched over to Catholicism. it relatively is what Albert Einstein, a Jew, had to declare bearing directly to the Catholic Church's place in the process the conflict... "...purely the Catholic Church stood squarely around the path of Hitler's marketing campaign for suppressing the actuality. I by no potential had any particular activity in the Church in the previous, yet now i've got self belief a large affection and admiration simply by fact the Church on my own has had the braveness and endurance to stand for psychological fact and ethical freedom. i'm compelled as a effect to admit that what I as quickly as despised, I now compliment unreservedly." - Albert Einstein, quoted in Time magazine (1940)

Answer 6

Tough one and debatable but essentially Catholics on a whole reached out to the Pope, however this was not his highest priority.

"While the Vatican showed keen interest in getting the perpetrators of the Holocaust freed, and, as we have seen, had to be restrained by its trusted envoy Bishop Muench, it showed little or no interest in the question of restitution for survivors of the Holocaust.

As did most Italians, Pope Pius sought to save native Italian Jews during the Holocaust, but he did not allow the Jewish tragedy to upset his world vision which remained fixed on his church and the Marxist danger."

Answer 7

1) Total inaction.
2) Jews were singled out for elimination. 1/3rd of all Jews in the world were systematically murdered.
3) See above.

Why do you hate Jews?

Answer 8

To the jews only jews count,cattle don't count,which is what they call us.There is a lot of money in keeping the holocaust going.

Answer 9

Are you referring to the handicapped, gays, gypsies and that sort? What does the Catholic church have to do with this?

Answer 10

majority...