PUNKTY WIDZENIA: Benedykt XVI – nowy etap katolickiego rozumienia Szoa?
POINTS OF VIEW: Benedict XVI – a New Stage in the Catholic Understanding of the Shoah?

Summary/Abstract: Benedict XVI’s speech in Auschwitz may be interpreted as a form of justification of the Germans’ submissiveness toward the Nazi ideology. The Pope did not probe into the Germans’ enthusiasm for the Nazis (Christian anti-Semitism, for instance), he also avoided the subject of passiveness and submissiveness of German churches to the Nazis, which failed the test of that time. Accusing atheism of being a source of Nazi crimes serves as means of averting one’s eyes from one’s own guilt.

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