ABSTRACT
Stefan Moritz is one of the first scholars to gain access to diocesan archives in Vienna and Graz, a not insubstantial achievement. He neglects, however, to explain which collections he has consulted and which documents remain under lock and key. The first half of Moritz's account is less sensational than his publisher would have readers believe. Moritz's careful examination of pastoral letters, church bulletins, and other ecclesiastical publications makes it all too clear that Austrian Catholicism embraced National Socialism to a greater degree than contemporary scholars have recognized or been willing to admit. Moritz has made it clearer than others how preposterous it is to portray the Austrian Church as the Church of Resistance. Moritz reserves his heaviest fire for a full-frontal assault on the Austrian hierarchy. With regard to the Holocaust, Moritz furnishes hard evidence that the Austrian episcopate was well aware of Hitler's extermination of the Jews.
