Christian doctrine and the "Final Solution": the state of the question

The commonly held belief that there is a direct causal link between Christian teaching and the Holocaust is here characterised as simplistic. If European anti-Semitism can legitimately be seen as a corollary of Christianity, it does not necessarily follow that it led directly to Auschwitz. The chief counter-argument is that Nazism was pagan, not Christian. It is concluded that "Christian anti-Judaism and Nazi anti-Semitism are related, but they are not alike."