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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen wrote in the January 21st issue of The New Republic, "[A]ntisemitism's marginalized place in the canonical accounts of Western history may be owed to a simple fact: that the main responsibility for producing this all-time leading Western hatred lies with Christianity. More specifically, with the Catholic Church." Not true. Not only did the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations oppose Hitler's oppression, but the Nazi regime was anti-Christian.
Rutgers University law students have been compiling documents showing that the Nazi regime actually intended to abolish Christianity. Known as the Nuremberg Project, law students have gathered and edited primary source documents compiled by American prosecutors who submitted them as evidence during the 1946 Nuremberg War Crimes trial. In January, Rutgers University posted the project's first installment on its website. Entitled "The Persecution of the Christian Churches," the installment outlined the Nazi plan to ...