But what was singular, which Friedländer does not sufficiently emphasize or analyze, is that the project was ideologically driven forward from Germany by Germans who alone sought the total elimination of the Jews from Europe and ultimately from the world. Whatever substantial local aid Germans received from Dutch, French, Poles, Ukrainians and others, it was principally Germans who imagined a world without Jews.
I would probably agree with that remark. In particular, it was Bavarian Germany. Hitler's anti-semitism may have flowered in Berlin, but it was born and raised in Munich, a very Catholic area, don't you think?
FRIEDLANDER: "If, however, the Catholic Church also represents a moral stand, as it claims, mainly in moments of major crisis, and thus has to move on such occasions from the level of institutional interests to that of moral witnessing, then of course Pius's choice should be assessed differently."
SANDY: I wonder what follows that sentence.
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Vienna, not Munich. Hitler was an anti-Semite long before he arrived in Munich.
And his anti-Semitism was heavily involved with the occult, specifically Madame Blavatsky and her "Theosophy", as well as other aspects of occultism and neo-paganism.
Roy Schoeman does a fine job of explaining and documenting this in his book.