“The Catholic Church’s campaign of slander and indoctrination against the Jews is considered one of the things that paved the way for the German people to cause the atrocities in Auschwitz,” said Duelman, who lost the trial. Duelman made it clear that if the churches refused to remove the offensive statue, they would “prove nothing but continuing to be strongly associated with anti-Semitism. “The individual insult and defamation of Jews must be put into context and that is what happened here,” the judge and spokesman for the German court, Kai Hamdorf, ruled. “The stigma has become a monument, and as...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
