A Medieval Holocaust! (Just one of many victims) After the
Second World War political prisoners, like the Poles who
suffered terribly in Auschwitz, would often comment, "If the
Nazis didn't kill you, than the [liberating] Russians did," for
many Polish women were brutally raped and subsequently died at
the hands of peasant Russian conscripts. Yet the same can also
be said of the Catholic church, for this Latin institution would
murder nearly as many people as those that died in World War II!
(It must be stated that some writers believe, however that the
combined death of both World Wars would only just be less than
those that were massacred at the hands of the Catholic church,
from the fourth century up until the 20th century. Dr. Peter
Ruckman, in his two-volume book set on Church history, states
that 50 million people were murdered during this period. Roman
Catholic writter, John Cornwell also writes how 1-10 million
were murdered during the Inquisition period alone, with 10,000
females (many under the age