The Pope said that the heroic fight against Nazism is a model for fighting any attempts to deny human dignity. In his speech to Queen Elizabeth at the royal palace in Edinburgh, Benedict XVI recognised that “Great Britain and its leaders opposed a Nazi tyranny that in its heart wanted to eradicate God from society and deny many our common humanity, especially the Jews, who were considered unworthy of life.” “While we reflect on the stern warnings given by the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, we can never forgot how the exclusion of God from public life leads in the last analysis to a reductive vision of the human being.” .