R.J.

This is another example to show that Thomas Jefferson was right when he said that there's no advantage to Christianity!!
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Subject: Austria Upset Over Book Naming Nazi Influence Over Clergy
Posted By: Editor
Date Posted: November 19, 2002, 9:51 PM AP --
Austrian clergy taken to task for support of Hitler, ignoring Jews' plight
BYLINE: By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: VIENNA, Austria
BODY:

Some Austrians were clearly not ready for Stefan Moritz's book about their country's pro-Nazi priests -- bishops who hushed up the Holocaust and a prelate who helped thousands of Hitler's henchmen escape justice. "A woman just screamed 'Heil Hitler,' and hung up," says Moritz. "Another caller asked me if I were a Jew, because only a Jew could write garbage like this."

Moritz, who isn't Jewish, has shaken up his country with a book asserting that Austria's Roman Catholic Church ignored and even abetted Nazi horrors. By publishing "Gruess Gott und Heil Hitler," (Hail God and Heil Hitler), 36-year-old Moritz is treading on sensitive ground. After all, close to 80 percent of Austrians are Roman Catholics.

Not all Austrian clergy were cowards or collaborators. Moritz cites the case of Franz Reinisch, banned from preaching because of his critical stance toward the Nazis. The church, instead of backing Reinisch, expelled him from his Pallottine order and he was executed in 1942 after refusing to swear loyalty to Hitler and join his army, Moritz writes.

That's only one example in his argument that [the] Austrian church in general struck a bargain with the devil in order to survive, and that many priests and bishops went beyond silence to actively support the Nazis.

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Vorkosigan

RJ, all of the text above is copyrighted....

a few highly out-of-context excerpts are here
<a href="http://www.dailynewstribune.com/arts_lifestyle/tv_music_radio/ap_ww2jews11242002.htm" target="_blank"> excerpts</a>

<a href="http://www.dailynewstribune.com/arts_lifestyle/tv_music_radio/ap_ww2jews11242002.htm" target="_blank">Here is a story about Dutch Bounty Hunters who captured Jews</a>

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