
By Michael Phayer
"Phayer deals precisely what used to be needed.... a good and even-tempered account of a unstable subject." ―Kirkus Reviews
"An vital addition to the literature of the Holocaust." ―Publishers Weekly
"Very valuable... a superb and really appropriate book." ―István Deák, the recent York overview of Books
"Phayer has written a singularly vital booklet at the function of the Catholic Church in either the Holocaust and its aftermath, as much as and together with Vatican II. Diligently researched and documented, really appropriate in its conclusions, complete in its scope, compassionate and humane in its outlook, this publication is an vital resource." ―Richard L. Rubenstein
"Phayer’s research of [the Catholic Church] as an actor within the tumultuous background of the [20th century] will function a version for different historians." ―Donald J. Dietrich, Boston College
Phayer’s booklet, really powerful on German resource fabric, is at pains to record Pius’s powerful issues his piety, his loathing of Hitler, the situations of private heat, the events whilst he criticized Nazism. Phayer examines not just Pius’s activities yet these of different top Catholics, and his examine extends past the top of worldwide conflict II to stick to the evolution of respectable Catholic pondering throughout the rebuilding of Germany, the chilly warfare, and the sluggish theological reforms that resulted in Vatican II. this allows Phayer to teach how the church thoroughly reversed its place relative to the Jews, however it additionally provides him a extra thorough studying of Pius XII’s total list. it's a damning and convincing verdict that emerges." ―Commonweal
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