The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg

It's so alarmingly offensive, I really don't even know where to begin. (He also seems to believe that Polish Christians were evangelical Protestants when in fact like 90% of Poles were Roman Catholic but I digress.) He spends less of the book on his weak plot and more on trying to get us to believe that Christians have literally zero responsibility for what happened. But this book basically asserts that all Christians in Europe were saints because they loved Jesus so much and Jesus was Jewish. I don't blame these people - they did what they had to in order to survive, even if it meant culpability in systematic murder. Denmark and the French city of Le Chambon were anomalies in terms of actual communities of people who worked together to save Jews, as were the individuals who made up various resistance groups, but the MAJORITY of Christians in Europe were not only apathetic, but were in fact COMPLICIT in the Holocaust, especially in Poland where most people threw morality and values out the window to turn in their Jewish neighbors to the police so they could be rewarded with loaves of bread. But Christians across Europe are culpable in the fact that a very very tiny percentage of non-Jews in Europe actually did something to save the Jews. Rosenberg makes a hell of a lot of excuses for them and how even church-going Nazis weren't *real* Christians.

Because he came through at the end! You know, after the Nazis had nearly finished what they set out to do, effectively wiping out Europe's entire Jewish population because those who did survive immediately booked it for Palestine and the U.S.Įven though I've never heard someone blame Christians for the Holocaust, Joel C. God got the Jews through it, just like he saw them through Egyptian slavery! Sure, he only managed to save like 10% max of those who went into concentration camps, but it's all good. Rosenberg, it's okay that 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis because not *ALL* of the Jews died.

The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg