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Article: POPE IRKS RABBI IN TOUR OF NAZI SITE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 25, 1988
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MAUTHAUSEN, Austria - Pope John Paul II condemned Nazism
yesterday on the site where 110,000 World War II prisoners died.
But he angered Austria's chief rabbi by not making a specific
reference to Jewish victims.
Earlier, John Paul urged Austrian Jewish leaders to accept
the Vatican's call for a Palestinian homeland. He did not respond
to appeals for the Vatican to give full diplomatic recognition to
Israel.
The pope also said Mass in Trausdorf, near the Hungarian
border, for about 80,000 people, most of them Yugoslavs and
Hungarians.
The emotional high point of the day came at Mauthausen,
Austria's most infamous death camp, where an estimated 110,000 Nazi
prisoners died or ...