Abstract
Scholarly contributions on the responsibility of the churches for the extermination of the Jews during the Second World War contrast Nazi anti-Semitism (the aversion toward the Jews as a racial group) with Christian anti-Judaism (the Christian aversion toward the Jewish religion), as one would oppose the new to the old, the modern to the traditional, the political to the religious, science to theology. The author shows, using four examples (Leon Poliakov, Hannah Arendt, Colette Guillaumin, Thomas Nipperdey & Reinhard Rurup), that this distinction induces one to ignore the churches' actions in the process that led from the invention of the word anti-Semite in 1879 to the destruction of the Jews by the Nazis.
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