How was the response to the holocaust ?
In an essay in honor of Cargas after his death , Kurt Vonnegut wrote that Cargas , whom he referred to as " my buddy , Father Cargas , " was " a person of historical importance for having taken into his very bones , as a Christian , the horrifying mystery of how persons could profess love of Jesus Christ , as did most Nazis , ... yet commit a crime as merciless as the extermination of Europe 's Jews .