[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Japanese Advance, 21 July-16 Sept. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[BroJoeK]

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August 12 1942:
"Dachau's crematorium (pictured here and above) housed several ovens for the burning of numerous bodies simultaneously.
Still, the camp's inmates died in numbers too large for the ovens to incinerate every corpse."

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[BroJoeK]

page 5 headline:

"800 POLISH PRIESTS REPORTED KILLED

Inter-Allied Information Board Says Nazi Plan Abolition of Christianity

TELLS OF PERSECUTIONS

10,000 Word Report Declares methods are Milder in the Low Countries

"Abolition of Christianity is a deliberate, long-range objective of Nazi administrators in occupied countries, the Inter-Allied Information Committee asserted in a 10,000-word report issued tonight on religious persecution in Europe...

"The report... said that in Poland the number of priests 'executed by the Gestapo' or tormented to death in German prisons and concentration camps is estimated at 800.
It said there were about 3,000 Polish priests in German concentration camps at present...

" 'Even high dignitaries and distinguished lay-workers of churches (in Czechoslovakia) were not spared physical torment and spiritual pressure of the most severe character,' the report said.
'Among them was Karel Cardinal Kaspar, the Archbishop of Prague, who died in June, 1941.'
About the same time the leading Catholic intellectual, Alfred Fuchs, was tortured to death and his window received his ashes.' "

By war's end the total of Christian clergy deaths came to around 3,000 from all over Europe.

Such data is important to remember in any discussion of "where was the Church during the Holocaust?"
The answer to a large extent is: the Church was also in the concentration camps, death camps, crematoria and even gas chambers along with Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses and others "unworthy of life".