this debate will never end. -------no group did IT ALL----- Germany was well prepared to commit genocide by
the teachings of both the catholic church and Martin Luther-------genocide does not require a MAJORITY
of population-----it requires enough of the leadership and
enough of passivity of the population and only a very little
participation of the general populace----just enough. I am confident that MOST GERMANS would not have WANTED to participate----most did not want to know---
some resisted but not enough. John XXIII was the first pope to decide ---"enough is enough" Pope Pius was not up to his job-----he should have lain his own body in the way of the transport trains-----he was a coward-----so they made him a SAINT. If he had done the RIGHT thing----he would have ended up in
heaven----so what stopped him?
My concern with the Germans is they did not exhibit any of the virtues of the Christianity they professed. While they may not have directly bought into genocide, they had no problem contributing to it
The German culture turned on the Jews, bought in to them being sub human and not worthy of being more than a slave labor force
In the same vein, I blame Christians in America for their treatment of blacks. Don't they read the Bible they hold so dear?
I am not sure that so many Germans were such ardent christians It does seem true that some ardent
Christians were also ardent Nazis ( Josef and
Magda Goebbels-----managed to combine Catholicism
with Nazism)------but probably not lots. ------
Christians.