Copyright (C) 1969 Johan M. Snoek.

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JOHAN M. SNOEK

THE GREY BOOK

A COLLECTION OF PROTESTSAGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM AND PERSECUTION OF JEWSISSUED BYNON-ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND CHURCH LEADERSDURING HITLERS RULE

INTRODUCTION BY URIEL TAL

Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V. dr. H.J. Prakke & H.M.G. Prakke—Assen, 1969

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION (by Uriel Tal)

Part I

1 PROBLEMS OF EVALUATION 2 FACTORS LEADING TO PUBLIC PROTESTS 3 RESULTS 4 HELP TO CHRISTIANS OF JEWISH ORIGIN 5 "MERCY-BAPTISMS"

Part II

6 HISTORICAL EVENTS 7 GERMANY 8 THE NETHERLANDS 9 BELGIUM10 FRANCE11 SWITZERLAND12 DENMARK13 SWEDEN14 HUNGARY15 RUMANIA16 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND17 THE UNITED STATES18 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF CHURCHES

Part III

19 HISTORICAL EVENTS, 1939-194520 GERMANY21 NORWAY22 THE NETHERLANDS23 FRANCE24 YUGOSLAVIA25 GREECE26 DENMARK27 SLOVAKIA28 RUMANIA29 BULGARIA30 HUNGARY31 SWITZERLAND32 SWEDEN33 GREAT BRITAIN34 THE UNITED STATES35 THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES36 TERRITORIES IN WHICH THE CHURCHES REMAINED SILENT37 IN CONCLUSION APPENDIX I APPENDIX II BIBLIOGRAPHY PERIODICALS AND REPORTS

INTRODUCTION (by Uriel Tal)

The protests of the non-Roman Catholic Churches against the persecutionand extermination of the Jews during the Nazi period, carefully compiledand amply documented in this volume, possess a significance that is notconfined to the history of Christian-Jewish relations. They constitute animportant chapter in the history of Christianity itself in that they revealthe deeper aspects of the Church's antagonism to the anti-religious andhence anti-Christian character of Nazi anti-semitism.The well-attested facts presented to us in this volume are a clearconfirmation of the Church's reputation of Nazi doctrines, not only whenthese doctrines were directed against the Jews but, first and foremost,when they threatened the very existence of the Church itself, both as asystem of theological doctrines and beliefs and as an historical institution.The Church regarded freedom, freedom of man as well as its own, as aninalienable right rooted in the nature of man as a rational being createdin God's image. Hence, when the Church was deprived at the right ofself-determination, it felt its very existence endangered, and it was thenthat it recognized the full symbolic import of Jewish persecution. Thisview was plainly set forth at the beginning of the persecution of the Jewsby the Nazi-regime in Holland, by D. J. Slotemaker de Bruine, Protestantpastor and Minister of State, who declared:

"…Freedom of the spirit is our life-blood. By that I mean freedom inquestions of the spirit, freedom of conscience, freedom of the Church,freedom of instruction, freedom of the Word of God, freedom to bearwitness…" [1] <I>In the light of this statement it is obvious tha

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