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To: Titanites; wmfights; Alex Murphy; Gamecock; ConservativeMind; 2ndDivisionVet; xzins; ...
"...His [Pope Pius XII] silence was an effective strategy (((GASPSPUTTERGASP))) directed to protecting the greatest possible number of Jews from deportation. An explicit and severe denunciation of the Nazis by the Pope would have been an invitation to reprisals, and would have worsened attitudes toward Jews throughout Europe..."

Of course one can ask: What could be worse than the extermination of 6 million Jews? The answer is simple and terribly honest: the killing of hundreds of thousands of other Jews.

What barbaric, idiotic, appeasing comments.

After six million Jews were murdered, how many do you think remained?

With this kind of logic, maybe it would have been better if NO ONE had spoken up! If Bonhoeffer had just kept his mouth shut. If the Jews had just trusted in the silence of the Vatican, everything would have worked out great peachy-keen.

Unbelievable.

283 posted on 03/15/2008 3:48:11 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Are you equating the slaughter of 13 million with the slaughter of 14 million? Is not every life precious?

Who are you to abandon 860,000 souls so profligately?


285 posted on 03/15/2008 3:50:11 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
After six million Jews were murdered, how many do you think remained?

At the least 860,000.

What barbaric, idiotic, appeasing comments.

Your opinions are not very persuasive.

287 posted on 03/15/2008 3:51:59 PM PDT by Titanites
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
After six million Jews were murdered, how many do you think remained?

About 5 million. The Wannsee conference (which planned the Holocaust in January 1942) came up with an overall number of 11 million Jews they planned to exterminate.

Of course, not all 11 million were under Nazi control for the entire duration of the war.

Rabbi Dalin knows that, because he's actually a (((GASPSPUTTERGASP))) competent historian.

288 posted on 03/15/2008 3:53:36 PM PDT by Campion
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With this kind of logic, maybe it would have been better if NO ONE had spoken up! If Bonhoeffer had just kept his mouth shut. If the Jews had just trusted in the silence of the Vatican, everything would have worked out great peachy-keen.

Good point.

I'm unfamiliar with the organizational structure of the Lutheran Church. Is it a centralized hierarchy like the RCC?

As a Baptist we have a decentralized structure and are organized in associations. Thus any national figure really does not have any power over individual churches so you can usually find us on both sides of every issue.

298 posted on 03/15/2008 4:06:10 PM PDT by wmfights (Believe - THE GOSPEL - and be saved)
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