Jesus, Jews, and the Shoah.("A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair")(Book Review)

From: National Review | Date: January 27, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (Knopf, 352 pp., $25)

I began this book as an admirer of its author. Goldhagen's 1996 work, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, forcefully rejected the leftist paradigms that had come to dominate study of the worst event in human history. Where other historians posited exculpatory social structures, collectivities, or "irresistible forces," Goldhagen presented Germans as individual moral agents, as thinking and ...

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