Sentences with phrase «nazi complicity»
But what is it that makes a person shift from personal profit and Nazi complicity to heroic altruism and subversive activity?
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In 1997, the World Jewish Congress succeeded in exposing the complicity of the Swiss banking system with the Nazi persecution of German Jews, and, after some hesitation, Swiss banks announced their intention to create a Holocaust Fund for Holocaust victims whose family assets had disappeared into Nazi accounts in Swiss banks.
So it was a time when many listened «without taboo» to arguments in favor of complicity with Nazi domination of Europe.
The first is Complicity in the Holocaust by Robert P. Ericksen, a bleak portrait of capitulation and collaboration during the Nazi era.
It is important that Catholics and Christians acknowledge the failures and complicity of certain Christians during the Nazi era — where guilt is beyond question --- but it is equally important that unjust allegations be answered, and that those who did live up to Christianity's teachings are recognized and applauded.
Ah, the «consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life,» which the Crusades, the various Inquisitions, genocidal forced conversions during the conquest of the Americas, complicity in the NAZI - engineered Holocaust [against Jews, Gypsies, trade unionists, university professors, disabled persons, outspoken Protestants, and others], complicity in Vietnamese Catholic genocide against Buddhists, etc., etc., etc.,... all render consistently inconsistent!
Comparisons with the Nazi or Stalinist murders are just indeed, but not unproblematic: they are both similar and different, yet the essential dilemma is surely the judgment of posterity: how will future generations view our inaction in the face of such evil, when we ourselves judge harshly the complicity of previous generations in the evils of their time?
In 2018 Poland's president signed a bill into law which makes it illegal to accuse the nation of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany, including the Holocaust.
Facing History's new ebook, Complicity, Collaboration and Resistance: France under the Nazi Occupation, uses France as a case study to sort through how those individual and collective choices contributed to the Holocaust.
By making it illegal to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany, some argue, this legislation is trying to amend or rewrite history and with Poland's Jewish societies stating their communities feel unsafe [i], we ask why this Bill was ever passed.
By making it illegal to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany, some argue, this legislation is trying to amend or rewrite history and with Poland's Jewish societies stating their communities feel unsafe i, we ask why this Bill was ever passed.