‘After the Holocaust: National Attitudes to Jews’WALDHEIM, THE POPE AND THE HOLOCAUST
Pope John Paul ll's controversial Vatican meeting with Kurt Waldheim in June 1987 has raised important questions regarding the Church, Yugoslavia, Austria and the Holocaust. The Pope has continued the Church's policy of placing intra-mural Church interests — meeting the victorious presiden...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1989
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1989, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13 |
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| Summary: | Pope John Paul ll's controversial Vatican meeting with Kurt Waldheim in June 1987 has raised important questions regarding the Church, Yugoslavia, Austria and the Holocaust. The Pope has continued the Church's policy of placing intra-mural Church interests — meeting the victorious presidential candidate of the Catholic party of Catholic Austria — above other issues — Jewish concems regarding the Holocaust. Yugoslavia's changed national interests since the late 1940s can explain that country's long silence regarding the man against whom they once prepared a war crimes file. For many Austrians, Waldheim is the embodiment of his nation. He conscientiously ‘did his duty’ under the Nazis and has no regrets. His consistent failure to face his past frankly reflects the failure of his nation, which is the heart of the controversy. For Austrians to face their past frankly means acknowledging that most of them are pleased the Jews are gone. Interpreting the controversy as a Jewish conspiracy against Austria, pro-Waldheim Austrians rallied to him not despite who he was, but because of it. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/4.1.1 |