German Catholic church after the Holocaust

Discusses the three periods of adjustment vis-a-vis the Holocaust. Early on, church leaders supressed debate among members regarding collective guilt but recognised the obligation of restitution. During the 1950s, the church disregarded the Holocaust and social problems, such as antisemitism. Around 1959, a new generation of church leaders called attention to the church's lapses regarding the Jews during the Nazi era. This was due to a group, the Freiburg circle under Gertrud Luckner, a Righteous Gentile