TY - JOUR
AU - Huener, Jonathan
AB - bishop’s work, but inferring intent could be considered a weakness in an otherwise fine book. The volume presents four appendices: “One World in Charity” (1947), the illegal German text; One World in Charity as published in English in Fargo in 1946; the basic U.S. document authorizing Muench to function as Liaison Representative to the American Military Government (a position he occupied from 1946 to 1949); and a historiographical essay on Pius XII and the Holocaust. The latter essay very nicely establishes the “state of the question” and concludes by placing the Muench papers into the context of what seems an unending stream of studies. In the final analysis, it is clear that both Pius and Muench exhibited myopic tendencies when confronting German Catholic complicity in Nazism, and that both shared in the antisemitism common at the time. Brown-Fleming’s book expands on the research connecting Catholics with powerful political and religious currents that shaped modernity. Her book adds to our understanding of this dark era and of the Catholic Church’s role in condoning the vehement antisemitism that culminated in the brutal Nazi assault on the Jewish people. The more that is learned of this subject, the more amazing the con- 
TI - The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz, Alan L. Berger, Harry James Cargas, and Susan E. Nowak, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004), xx  269 pp., pbk. 44.00.
JO - Holocaust and Genocide Studies
DO - 10.1093/hgs/dcm029
DA - 2007-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-continuing-agony-from-the-carmelite-convent-to-the-crosses-at-xiuzA2BqZQ
SP - 317
EP - 320
VL - 21
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -