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Papers reveal Nazi aim: End Christianity
A Rutgers journal will put rare Nuremberg documents online. Aplan to rout the church and install a Reich faith is shown.
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By Edward Colimore INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The fragile, typewritten documents fromthe 1940s lay out the Nazi plan in grimdetail:
Take over the churches from within,using party sympathizers. Discredit, jailor kill Christian leaders. And reindoctrinate the congregants. Give thema new faith in Germany's Third Reich.
More than a halfcentury ago, confidential U.S. government reports on the Naziplans were prepared for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg andwill be available online for free starting tomorrow some of them for the firsttime.
These rare documents in their original form, some with handwritten scrawlsacross them are part of an online legal journal published by students of theRutgers University School of Law at Camden.
"When people think about the Holocaust, they think about the crimes againstJews, but here's a different perspective," said Julie Seltzer Mandel, a thirdyearlaw student who is editor of the Nuremberg Project for the Rutgers Journal ofLaw and Religion.
"A lot of people will say, 'I didn't realize that they were trying to convertChristians to a Nazi philosophy.' . . . They wanted to eliminate the Jewsaltogether, but they were also looking to eliminate Christianity."
Mandel said the journal would post new Nuremberg documents about every sixmonths, along with commentary from scholars across the world, on its Web siteat www.lawandreligion.com.
The material is part of the archives of Gen. William J. Donovan, who served as
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special assistant to the U.S. chief of counsel during the International MilitaryTribunal after World War II. The trials were convened to hold accountable thoseresponsible for war crimes.
The first installment a 120page report titled "The Nazi Master Plan: ThePersecution of the Christian Churches" was prepared by the Office of StrategicServices, a forerunner of the CIA.
"Important leaders of the National Socialist party would have liked to meet thissituation [church influence] by complete extirpation of Christianity and thesubstitution of a purely racial religion," said an OSS report in July 1945. "Thebest evidence now available as to the existence of an antiChurch plan is to befound in the systematic nature of the persecution itself.
"Different steps in that persecution, such as the campaign for the suppression ofdenominational and youth organizations, the campaign against denominationalschools, the defamation campaign against the clergy, started on the same day inthe whole area of the Reich . . . and were supported by the entire regimentedpress, by Nazi Party meetings, by traveling party speakers."
A second online journal posting to be added in about six months willspotlight a secret OSS document, "Miscellaneous Memoranda on WarCriminals," about the efforts of various countries to bring Nazis to justice.
A third installment to be included in the journal in a year focuses ontranslated, confidential Nazi documents. A message sent during theKristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") pogrom of November 1938 is titled"Measures To Be Taken Against Jews Tonight." Authorities were given specificinstructions: "Jewish shops and homes may be destroyed, but not looted. . . .Foreigners, even if Jewish, will not be molested."
Mandel, whose 80yearold grandmother is a survivor of the Auschwitzconcentration camp, said that allowing the public access to such documentationis "phenomenal."
"Some of the papers will answer questions that scholars have been asking foryears," said Mandel, 29, of Berlin Borough, Camden County. "What did weknow? When did we know it?"
The documents are part of the collection of the Cornell University School ofLaw library, which has about 150 bound volumes of Nuremberg trial transcriptsand materials. They are housed at the school and are being cataloged.
"Gen. Donovan kept extensive, detailed records of Nazi atrocities," said Mandel,who taught at Triton High School in Runnemede and at Shawnee High Schoolin Medford, where she led a course on "Literature of the Holocaust."
She and other journal editors Daniel Bahk, Christopher Elliott, Ross Endersand Jessica Platt examined hundreds of documents at Cornell before choosingthose to be posted on the journal site. "The project could not be published in aconventional journal without losing the international accessibility that itdemands," said Rayman Solomon, dean of the School of Law. "This studentinitiative will make a significant contribution to legal history scholarship whilebeing of great interest and importance to the general public, especially at thistime in our history."
Greg Baxter, marketing editor of the journal and a thirdyear Rutgers lawstudent, said the online project was "definitely pertinent in light of the Sept. 11terrorist attack" and Bush administration plans to hold a military tribunal to trythe accused.
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"The Nuremberg trials provide a framework for today's trials," said Baxter, 24,of Winslow, Camden County.
Edward Colimore's email address is [email protected].