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During a visit to Auschwitz, Pope Benedict XVI said:
"The rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people, to cancel it from the register of the peoples of the Earth," he said, standing near the demolished crematoriums where the Nazis burned the bodies of their victims.
"By destroying Israel with the Shoah, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention."
These words are relevant to Iran's current, stated, ambitions to see Israel destroyed; the Pope has said that to destroy Israel, is "to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith."