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A Moral Reckoning
The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
by Daniel J. Goldhagen
ISBN: 0375714170
ISBN-13: 9780375714177
Format: Paperback
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Summary
The author of the acclaimed HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS presents damning evidence by which he intends to prove that the Roman Catholic clergy were willing supporters of the Holocaust. He then addresses the issue of how the Church can "repair" or make amends for the wrongs done in its name.
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"As in his previous book, Goldhagen has assembled an impressive body of evidence, not all of it new....And once more, Goldhagen makes his case more as prosecutor than historian, with an insistent adversarial tone....In A MORAL RECKONING That strident tone seems all the more emphatic because the book is so remarkably repetitious. The same points are made, the same arguments are advanced, more or less the same sentences are reiterated, over and over again....All of which is a pity, since the subject is profoundly important, Goldhagen is a diligent researcher and much of what he says needs saying." -- Geoffrey Wheatcroft
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2003
Size: 5 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.8 pounds
Pages: 362
Publisher's Notes
With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is a work that goes far beyond the familiar inquiries—most of which focus solely on Pope Pius XII—to address an entire history of hatred and persecution that culminated, in some cases, in an active participation in mass-murder.
More than a chronicle, A Moral Reckoning is also an assessment of culpability and a bold attempt at defining what actions the Church must take to repair the harm it did to Jews—and to repair itself. Impressive in its scholarship, rigorous in its ethical focus, the result is a book of lasting importance.
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