Why do people deny Catholics were prosecuted in WWII?

Yes Catholics died, so did Protestants, muslims, sikhs and just about any other religion you can mention.

The difference between these deaths and the ones you mentioned above is that they were not persecuted and killed purely for their religion.

Christian civilians were killed for defying the Nazi or Japanese regime, not because they were Christians. And this is why they were not classed as persecuted per se.

There is also a considerable amount of evidence that many Catholic Poles, Lithuanians, Estonians etc aided the Germans in rounding up Jews because of ingrained anti-semitism. People use these peoples' religion as a means to drive a wedge into the relationship between Jews and Christians.

They also use the fact that the Pope did not outright criticise the behaviour of the Nazis to the same end

Ray

Peace.....Catholics are Christians and the phrase Catholic approach common. So, sure many folks do misunderstand the terminology. The Orthodox while announcing the Nicene Creed use the phrase Catholic for the reason that as I stated, it approach common. I in my opinion feel that there used to be plenty occurring in Christianity earlier than Rome got here at the scene and possibly we have got to seem at that extra carefully.....benefits, "orthros"

Those forty-two million Catholic/Christian people died in the ACTUAL WAR. Not in death camps. Not in ghettos. The war didn't discriminate. It killed millions upon millions of people involved, including both soldiers and civilians. Do your research before blatantly posting bull. Yes, many Russian Christians were killed, but deaths are always the product of war. And the Jews are majority of victims of "Nazi slaughtering", which is why we focus on them instead of other groups.

I believe you meant "persecuted."