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Benedict XVI – a New Stage in the Catholic Understanding of the Shoah?
Tadeusz Bartoś
tbartos@ah.edu.pl BioTadeusz Bartoś - philosopher, professor at the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities, program director of the College of Philosophy and the History of Ideas. He published, amongst others, Metafizyczny pejzaż (2006 Wolność, równość, katolicyzm (2007), Jan Paweł II. Analiza krytyczna (2008), W poszukiwaniu mistrzów życia (2009), Koniec prawdy absolutnej (2010), a book-conversation with Agata Bielik-Robson, Kłopot z chrześcijaństwem. Wieczne gnicie, apokaliptyczny ogień, praca (2013) and the novel Monk. The Story of a Life That Never Was (2019). He runs the blog: www.tadeuszbartos.natemat.pl and the website tadeuszbartos.pl.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8641-1529
Aleksander Gieysztor Humanistic Academy in Pultusk
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 5 (2009), pages: 296-298
Publication date: 2009-11-09
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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