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8. Germany was different

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 02:17 PM

Mar 2020

There were three main parties, the Nazis (who called themselves socialists, but weren't), the Socialist Democrats, and the Communists. Only the Nazis were theists, so the church sided with them.

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Hitler's Pope [View all] Cartoonist Mar 2020 OP

War is the greater evil vlyons Mar 2020 #1

I disagree Cartoonist Mar 2020 #2

Even if war were a greater evil than the holocaust, unblock Mar 2020 #3

Communism Cartoonist Mar 2020 #4

Wonderful. Certainly justifies effectively condoning the murder of millions of innocents unblock Mar 2020 #5

Cant you see Evangelicals doing the same here? lark Mar 2020 #6

I would argue it was democratic government, broadly. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2020 #7

Germany was different Cartoonist Mar 2020 #8

That's my point. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2020 #9