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Catholics Confronting Hitler: The Catholic Church and the Nazis By Peter Bartley, Ignatius, 2016, 291 pp., ISBN 978-1-62164-058-5, $17.95 (paper).
Bartley's study examines Catholic resistance to European Fascism- particularly German Nazism but also Italian Fascism-from Hitler's rise until the defeat of the Axis in 1945. The author assembles a daunting number of facts and examples to document Catholic resistance to the Nazi regime, especially as regards the Final Solution.
Chapters 1 through 3 trace how Hitler took over first the National Socialists and then Germany, with special attention to Nazi race policies and the development of an ersatz "positive Christianity" designed to supplant...