Goldhagen's ARTICLE
According to Daniel Goldhagen's article, the role of church before WWII in the Holocaust was controversal.
Germany before WWII was undergoing genocidal state.
The persecution and genocide were accomplished by "removing the Jews from civil society".
This main idea was planned by Nazi under Adolf Hitler and whatever they planned to execute was
"RIGHT A SOLUTION" as they thought.
The same principle was used by Venedict pope, who though that everyone including religious community
must support his opinion.
This was an analogy between Germany state before WWII and pope's way of thinking.
The analogy that Goldhagen makes between the Pope and the Nazi regime takes into account the Pope's youthful membership in the Hitler Youth. Goldhagen's comparison is between the Nazi's totalitarianism in believing that their way of life is better than any other race's, and between the Pope's almost "totalitarian" way of thinking when it comes to religion; the Pope believes that Christianity/Catholicism is the only path to salvation, and although he is in discussion and open agreements with members of other religions, he is only in those agreements to convert them to his religion. This is what I took from the article, and which you mentioned.
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