Thank you for this article (and your many others during your stay in Germany). It provides an excellent resource to fill in the understated or missing pieces to that awful period.
Sadly, if you live in Sudan, Yemen, or Syria, and elsewhere, there is much that is unreported - we know but we fail to act. Martin Niemoller was so correct in his statement.
I do know that the pope at the time of the November pogroms was Pius XI, but he died in February of 1939 and was succeeded by Pius XII who was pope during World War II and the Holocaust.
Pius XII strongly condemned Nazi ideology and the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws that attempted to create a hierarchical society based on race. However, he also made many anti-Semitic statements and has been criticized for staying mostly silent about the crimes against Jewish people.
Thank you for this article (and your many others during your stay in Germany). It provides an excellent resource to fill in the understated or missing pieces to that awful period.
Sadly, if you live in Sudan, Yemen, or Syria, and elsewhere, there is much that is unreported - we know but we fail to act. Martin Niemoller was so correct in his statement.
Got to be proud of the Germans who fought back against the Pogrom. That had to take a lot of courage.
I always heard that the Pope knew about these things and did nothing. Is that true?
That is a good question about the pope.
I don't know the answer, but I will research it.
I do know that the pope at the time of the November pogroms was Pius XI, but he died in February of 1939 and was succeeded by Pius XII who was pope during World War II and the Holocaust.
Pius XII strongly condemned Nazi ideology and the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws that attempted to create a hierarchical society based on race. However, he also made many anti-Semitic statements and has been criticized for staying mostly silent about the crimes against Jewish people.
yes-I heard he was mostly silent for fear of endangering the lives of Catholics living in Germany.