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John Paul referred to Jews as "fellow believers" and spoke of the Holocaust as a "ruthless and inhuman" effort to exterminate specifically European Jews. "Never again!" the Pontiff declared, repeating a common Jewish phrase referring to the Nazi era. He also endorsed Catholic-Jewish programs to educate youngsters about the Nazi atrocities. Said Rabbi James Rudin, interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee: "The healing is under...
Glimpses of Goebbels' extensive chronicles have dribbled out piecemeal over the past 39 years, but late last month readers had their first comprehensive look at the Nazi's early writings with the publication of four volumes, running to 2,841 pages, by Munich's Institute of Contemporary History. Last week a few tantalizing excerpts appeared in the West German weekly Der Spiegel. The journals, dating from 1924 to early July of 1941, record Goebbels' development from a deeply religious and literary-minded Catholic youth, who saw his diaries as a "substitute for the confessional," to a zealous political organizer whose...
...that Germany's future leader may do "too much womanizing." Another entry suggests that the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 surprised Hitler's circle. Though Goebbels' account may be disingenuous, the passage is likely to fuel the continuing debate as to whether or not the arson ) was a Nazi ruse. Elsewhere, Goebbels dismisses Churchill as a "degenerate genius, therefore not too dangerous," and six days before Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, he predicts that Bolshevism will fall "like a house of cards...
...Council's decree denouncing anti-Semitism. But the Holy See still does not recognize Israel. And there have been other disputes, none more charged than the angry Jewish reaction to the audience John Paul granted to Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in June. Waldheim has been accused of complicity in Nazi war crimes and consequently is unwelcome in numerous Western nations, including the U.S. The Vatican argues that declining to receive Waldheim would have been tantamount to judging him guilty.* Dismayed that John Paul made no mention of the Holocaust during Waldheim's visit, Jewish leaders talked of boycotting a ceremonial...
...list of Soviet minorities testing glasnost grew by three last week as demonstrators in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia openly marked the 48th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet secret protocol that led to Soviet annexation of the three independent Baltic nations in 1940. Altogether, several thousand people took to the street to chant freedom slogans and sing patriotic songs...