The Holocaust could not have occurred without Christianity. * The target of the Holocaust was the Jews.
* Hitler justified this target mainly in the following ways:
1. Martin Luther's writings on the Jews
2. Marx was Jewish, an atheist, and developed the Communist philosophy.
3. Some Jews were extremely wealthy and therefore, according to Hitler, were the cause of the poor economic climate which plagued Germany at the time
* The Catholic Churches represented by the Zentrum Party gave Hitler the 2/3 majority he needed in the Reichstag to implement the Enabling Act in 1933.
* Without this critical vote Hitler could not have ended up with absolute power which is what gave him the power to execute the Holocaust.
Hitler could not have led or maintained his leadership of Germany without the electoral support of the German Christian population.
Hitler's voting base was German Christians
They were the one's who elected him into power knowing full well his anti-semitic, anti-communist, and
Positive Christianity views.
Mein Kampf had been published (1925) so Hitler's philosophy was not a secret to those who elected him.
4. Even some of the Churches of the day acknowledged Collective Guilt for their complicity in Hitler's Crimes Against Humanity.
Stuttgart Confession of Guilt, 1945, was organized by Reverend Niemoller who opposed Hitler and went to jail because of his opposition.
The EKD Confession of Guilt, 1947
Darmstadt Statement of the Council of Brothers
5. The major exception (amongst others) to point 4 are the Catholic Churches.
Instead of taking responsibility, they are now attempting to create a Historical Revisionist version of their role in Nazi Germany.
A role which consisted of active collaboration with the Nazis both in Germany and the other European countries Hitler later invaded.
All was done with the support and blessing of the Pope at the time, Pope Pius XI.
Pope Pius XII was responsible for negotiating the Reichskondordat (1933) with Nazi Germany, on behalf of Pope Pius XI and before he became Pope Pius XII in 1939. This Concordat is still in effect today.
Note: The Communists were also Hitlers' targets but he solved this problem by conflating Communism and Judaism and by doing that killed 2 birds with one stone by first targeting the Communists, then the Jews on the same grounds