Mourning and Rejoicing at Babylon's End

 The Price of Compromise

Guenter Lewy  writes in his book The Catholic Church ad Nazi Germany:  "Had German Catholicism from start adhered to a policy of resolute opposition to the Nazi regime, world history might well have taken a different course.  Even if this struggle had ultimately failed to defeat Hitler and prevent all of his many crimes. It would in this view have raised the moral prestige of the Church immeasurably.  The human cost of such resistance would undeniably have been great, but these sacrifices would have been made  for the greatest of all causes.  With the home front unreliable, Hitler might have dared going to war  and literally millions of lives would have been saved. . . .When thousands of German and anti-Nazis were tortured to death in Hitler's concentration camps, when the Polish intelligence was slaughtered, when thousands of thousands  of  Russians dies as a result of being treated as Slavic Untermenschen [sub-humans], and when 6,000,000 human beings were murdered for being 'non-Aryan,' Catholic Church officials in German bolstered the regime perpetrating  these crimes.  The Pope in Rome, the spiritual head and supreme court teacher of the Roman Catholic Church, remained silent."  Pages 320,  341.

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