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Why were the Jews so much against the Carmelite Nuns establishing a convent near Auschwitz? I have a general idea but I am looking to the RHP community for further insight. Serious replies please.

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Because the wartime Pope's conduct with regard to fascism left much to be desired.

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Originally posted by Scotty70
Why were the Jews so much against the Carmelite Nuns establishing a convent near Auschwitz? I have a general idea but I am looking to the RHP community for further insight. Serious replies please.

I know this is not exactly what you were looking for, but I'm going to have to challenge the premise of your question.

Either you need to change the phrase from "the Jews" to "some Jews" or show us evidence that at least a majority of Jews were opposed to it.

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25 Aug 10

Originally posted by sh76
I know this is not exactly what you were looking for, but I'm going to have to challenge the premise of your question.

Either you need to change the phrase from "the Jews" to "some Jews" or show us evidence that at least a majority of Jews were opposed to it.

When I say "the Jews", I dont mean it as a plurality where most felt that way, I just meant it as describing an ethnic group.

Lets just change that to "some Jews"

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Originally posted by Scotty70
Why were the Jews so much against the Carmelite Nuns establishing a convent near Auschwitz? I have a general idea but I am looking to the RHP community for further insight. Serious replies please.

My educated guess about why many Jews felt offended is similar to what's going on now with the mosque at ground zero. Italy was the other part of the Axis; Catholicism correlates heavily with all the Latin cultures, just as Protestantism does with Germanic cultures; and the Pope at the time had a book written about him called "Hitler's Pope". I haven't read it but it's obvious what it's about just from the title.

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See also

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/MemorialSite/Convent.html

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25 Aug 10

maybe some in the Catholic hierarchy went along with the Holocaust just to get along, and maybe others were more enthusiastic (a la the baskets of Serbian (?) eyeballs reportedly collected by the Croatians (?) et. al.)

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Catholicism correlates heavily with all the Latin cultures, just as Protestantism does with Germanic cultures.

Protestantism doesn't correlate so heavily with Germanic cultures as you suggest. Austria has traditionally been overwhelmingly Catholic, and two thirds of its population still count themselves Catholic today. In Germany, even before World War II, Catholics made up one third of the population; Catholics still make up about 30% of the population today, and due to the decline in Protestant worship, there are now slightly more Catholics in Germany than there are members of the leading German Protestant federation, the EKD. Catholicism is also now the largest single Christian denomination in the Netherlands.