worst enemies of a better Germany: postwar antisemitism among Catholic clergy and U.S. occupation forces

Between 1946-59, Vatican liason to Germany, Aloisius Cardinal Muench received tens of thousands of letters from German and American Catholics. Of these, approx. 100 letters - written by lay Catholics in the U.S. Army and military government - commented directly on the Holocaust, its survivors, and Jewish refugees in Germany or already in the U.S. Muench's diary offers an unusually clear window of antisemitic attitudes - his own and others - in the American occupation zone and in the U.S.