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To: KateatRFM

Some more facts:

1. Over 85% of the Italian Jewish population was rescued by the Church in the war, despite Nazi occupation midway in the war.

2. Italian zones of occupation in France, Yugoslavia and Greece were hotbeds of rescue activities.

3. It is estimated that 25% of Slovakian Jews were rescued by means of Vatican interventions.

4. Roumania was the only country in Europe besides Germany fully committed to implementing the Nazi plan to exterminate Jews. But though only 8% of the population of Roumania was itself Catholic, and though the Church itself was subject to harsh repression, nevertheless the Chief Rabbi of Roumania, Dr. Alexander Shafran, was able to state in his diary, "At this moment the Catholic Church is the one and only body which can intervene usefully. Nuncio Cassulo continues to bring every problem we ask him about to the Government. It sometimes happens that he appears before them twice on one day."

In September of 1942 as a result of such incessant intervention the deportations ceased, and in spite of several strong Gestapo and SS protests, they were not resumed.


16 posted on 02/13/2005 6:10:42 AM PST by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio

You have very selective memory and present questionable facts.

Yugoslavia and Greece are not Catholic countries. What about Croatia - a Catholic country - that was executing Jews, Serbs, Greeks?

Why don't you just claim that Catholic church saved 10 million Jews? 100 million?


19 posted on 02/13/2005 6:41:11 AM PST by chukcha
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