The Church's Help for Persecuted Jews in Nazi Vienna

Download or read book The Church's Help for Persecuted Jews in Nazi Vienna written by Traude Litzka and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English translation of Traude Litzka's scholarly German work treats the Roman Catholic Church's attempt to assist Jews after the 1938 Anschluss transforming the country into a province of Nazi Germany engaged in persecuting Jews and all opposing the Nazi regime. The new regime's hostility to the Church threatened its beliefs and structure, keeping its substantial assistance to the Jewish population secret until the end of World War II.