[Dr. Eckleburg]

The cliche that Martin Luther was the spiritual ancestor of Adolf Hitler was prominent following World War II, most notably in the work of journalist William Shirer. Scholars joined the bandwagon, mining Luther's writings for perceived connections between the great reformer and the mastermind of the Holocaust. Uwe Siemon-Netto exposes this connection as unfounded cliche thinking as he points readers to Luther's true descendants - men such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Carl Goerdeler, and those who brought down the Berlin Wall through prayers and candlelight.

Amen. Thanks for the two book suggestions. Two more good ones are...

1) "A MORAL RECKONING: THE ROLE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS UNFULFILLED DUTY OF REPAIR" by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (Knopf)

2) "THE POPES AGAINST THE JEWS: THE VATICAN'S ROLE IN THE RISE OF MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM by David I. Kertzer (Knopf)

[Campion]

Would it ever occur to you to read anything which defended the church's role in the Holocaust?

Like, for example, Rabbi Dalin's book?

[Campion]

The Myth of Hitler's Pope

Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII And the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis