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Anyway, I was just reading another one of Mojo_PeiPei's rants, specifically the troll 'debating' if liberals feared religion.

One of the points raised issues with the Pope's action or inaction, in the face of the Holocaust.

Well, one of the books I am reading now, is "Hitler's Willing Executioners" by Daniel Goldhagen. The author makes the point that contrary to popular belief,

1) the Germans were NOT ignorant of the genocide.
2) The killings were not confined to the SS. Ordinary citizens and citizen soldiers very willingly participated in the massacre.
3) The killers killed Jews very willingly, and were not coerced, either by the threat of force, or by social pressure. They willingly and very happily killed Jewry.


Yups, basically, the point is that anti-semitism was VERY prevalent in German society even before the rise of the Nazi party, and did not happen overnight. Anti-semitism was not caused by the Nazi Party. The fact that the Nazi's took over, and first removed the controls on anti-semitism, and then actively carried out genocide, probably helped a lot....

One chilling part i just read was that the Party was DISPLEASED when local citizenry, started kicking Jews out of their towns, and beating them up, BEFORE the party had made it official policy.

It's just very disturbing to me, that one of my 'myths' about the Holocaust, was that wrong.

Try to read it if you can. It's rather heavy reading though. I'm still trying to wade through.

Whats my point? not sure if I have one, but any comments and opinions are welcome....