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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Lauren Faulkner Rossi, âWehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilationâ (Harvard UP, 2015)
Description: I teach at a Catholic university and last semester co-taught (with a theologian) a class titled The Holocaust and its Legacies. Once my students became comfortable with me, they began to pepper me with questions about the role of the Catholic church during the Holocaust. Some of these questionsâabout the church and antisemitism, about the role of the PopeâI was able to answer effectively. But when they started asking me about the behaviors and beliefs of the bishops and priests-the people in the church who interacted with ordinary people on an everyday basisâI was at a loss.<...