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 | | To gain authority for his poetics of affliction, he cites Simone Weil but ignores her anti-Judaism like Hitler she believed that the Jews were a race, not a religion and her death from voluntary starvation, which was nothing like a choiceless choice. |
 | | Under Hitler, the Jews were rounded up, deported, enslaved, tortured, and murdered not because they were "afflicted" in Simone Weils sense, but because they were Jews because they were the descendants of Jews who had chosen not to give up their religion. |
 | | The two men believed that by excluding converted Jews from the leadership of the Confessing Church, Hitlers regime was interfering in church governance, although Niemöller conceded that it was "unfortunate" that converted Jews should hold positions of importance within the church (see Friedman; Friedländer 45). |
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