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The Holocaust is considered today to be one of the most widely discussed topics in both international history and American history. The how's and why's of this atrocity still continue to be dissected by historians, and new books surface discussing and hypothesizing old topics. One of the continued topics of this event in history is how other people aside from the Jews reacted and what they did to either help stall Adolf Hitler's final solution, or perpetuate the cycle of the destruction of the Jewish, the Gypsy, and of course the Communists.
The purpose of this research is to examine the Vatican's noninterference policy in the face of Hitler's Final Solution, the name given to the Nazi policy of extermination of the Jews. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context in which the question of Vatican culpability in the Holocaust arises. In particular, the origins of Christian-Jewish schism. Then moving on to the papacy's policies towards Nazi Germany during......

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