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Benedict, German Catholics & the Holocaust

Justus George Lawler | John Connelly

Justus George Lawler   John Connelly’s previous contributions to Commonweal—particularly his balanced assessment of Fear, Jan T. Gross’s book on the Kielce pogrom in postwar Poland (“Ordinary Poles,” February 23, 2007)—did not prepare me for the cliché history in his article on the paradoxical legacy of Karl Adam, “Reformer and Racialist” (January 18, 2008 (...)


 

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about the writer

Justus George Lawler is author of Popes and Politics: Reform, Resentment, and the Holocaust (Continuum).

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John Connelly teaches history at the University of California, Berkeley.

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