A while back, I read a paper written by a professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane, a Catholic school.
From what I remember, his thesis was, the multi-century persecution of the Jews by Christians throughout Europe was very much a factor in the Holocaust. Martin Luther's On the Jews and Their Lies read like a playbook for the Nazis as one example. It was endemic in the culture and while multiple complex factors were at play, Jewish marginalization by the Christian majority was certainly a contributing and important factor.
Now, I can't find the paper on line any longer. I thought it was odd such a paper would come from a Catholic school as it painted a bleak picture of European Christian culture and its complicity in the Holocaust.
From what I remember, his thesis was, the multi-century persecution of the Jews by Christians throughout Europe was very much a factor in the Holocaust. Martin Luther's On the Jews and Their Lies read like a playbook for the Nazis as one example. It was endemic in the culture and while multiple complex factors were at play, Jewish marginalization by the Christian majority was certainly a contributing and important factor.
Now, I can't find the paper on line any longer. I thought it was odd such a paper would come from a Catholic school as it painted a bleak picture of European Christian culture and its complicity in the Holocaust.