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 Posted: Mon 03 Nov 2008 02:00 Post subject: American Catholics and Nazi Antisemitism |
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| Quote: | New Website: American Catholics and Nazi Antisemitism
The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
announces a new website: "American Catholics and Nazi Antisemitism:
Father Maurice Sheehy, Father Charles Coughlin, and the 1938 Catholic
University Kristallnacht Broadcast." The site can be found at the
following url:
http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/kristallnacht/index.html
Our newest primary source materials website features digitized primary
documents and audio from the American Catholic History Center and
University Archives related to U.S. Catholic responses to the Nazi
regime in 1930s Germany. The materials on the site suggest that American
Catholics responded to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during
the anti-Jewish pogrom known today as Kristallnacht in ways distinct
from Catholics outside of the United States. Users will find, for
example, a recently discovered November 16, 1938 broadcast featuring a
group of 5 American Catholic clerical leaders and one layperson
condemning the Nazi violence against Jews. The broadcast was made under
the auspices of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
and received considerable media attention as it presented an instance,
unusual at the time, of Catholic priests and bishops voicing support for
a religious group other than their own on a national level. In contrast,
another prominent Catholic clerical leader with millions of devoted
fans, Father Charles Coughlin, responded to Kristallnacht with a
November 20, 1938 broadcast that justified the Nazi atrocities as a
natural defense against a Jewish-dominated global communist movement. A
transcript of that Coughlin broadcast is reproduced here. In addition to
the CUA broadcast audio and the Coughlin transcript this site features a
photo gallery of participants in the CUA broadcast and related
correspondence and press materials that help contextualize the
broadcasts. |
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