When Hitler came to power, German theologians largely accepted, in fact, enthusiastically accepted, the rise of Hitler, as did most of the Protestant church leaders.
	I think you cannot possibly tell the story of the antisemitic foundations of the Holocaust without acknowledging that it's a story that runs some two thousand years.

	Any church that loses a sense of the dignity of all people and is unwilling to stand up for that dignity at key moments of social tension I think really is threatening its own well-being, its ultimate purpose, and that's one of the strongest convictions that I have drawn from the study of theology after the Holocaust.
	And so I think the biggest failure was Jews were simply not seen as a high priority in terms of rescue by the Christian churches.

	First of all, in order to understand the emergence of what we can now legitimately call antisemitism among Islam we have to understand certain attitudes within Islam that preceded the modern period and the absolutely radical nature of what has been happening now.
	Perhaps sometimes it is useful to be reminded of the fact that the very term "antisemite" is invented in the 1870s. And that I think sort of points to a very profound mutation that what would be called traditional anti-Judaism, which was part and parcel of Christian theology, was beginning to undergo.