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Author | : Klaus Scholder |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532643233 |
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This second volume of The Churches and the Third Reich, the last which the author lived to write, covers the year 1934. This year, which saw the birth of the Confessing Church and the great Synods of Barmen and Dahlem, was the year of disillusionment, in which all the hopes of 1933 were shattered one by one. The gripping narrative of the first volume is continued as in addition to the rise of a legitimate church opposition we see how the German Christians overreached themselves by seeking, without Hitler’s approval and against the law, to set up a Reich Church fully coordinated with the state. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Church was running into increasing difficulties as it tried to cope with the problems left unresolved on the conclusion of the Concordat. Like the first, this volume has many illustrations.
Author | : Peter Matheson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : |
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A documentary account of Christian resistance and complicity during the Nazi era.--cover.
Author | : Doris L. Bergen |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807860344 |
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How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described 'German Christians,' who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old Testament, ousted people defined as non-Aryans from their congregations, denied the Jewish ancestry of Jesus, and removed Hebrew words like 'Hallelujah' from hymns. Bergen refutes the notion that the German Christians were a marginal group and demonstrates that members occupied key positions within the Protestant church even after their agenda was rejected by the Nazi leadership. Extending her analysis into the postwar period, Bergen shows how the German Christians were relatively easily reincorporated into mainstream church life after 1945. Throughout Twisted Cross, Bergen reveals the important role played by women and by the ideology of spiritual motherhood amid the German Christians' glorification of a 'manly' church.
Author | : Richard Weikart |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2016-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1621575519 |
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A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Author | : Klaus Scholder |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532643225 |
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This monumental, comprehensive, controversial study is the first volume of a definitive history of the churches in Germany between the wars. It is especially significant in that it is based on a great deal of original research into both religious and political sources, and is the first book to work on the presupposition that an accurate picture of the churches in the Third Reich demands that both Protestant and Roman Catholic churches are studied side by side, since it was the rivalry between the churches that in some ways contributed to their downfall. Contrary to what has often been asserted, Professor Scholder argues that Hitler did have a plan for the churches over a long period. Crucial to that plan on the Catholic side was his desire for a concordat parallel to that achieved by Mussolini, keeping the clergy out of politics, which the Vatican was over-hasty to meet; it was the attempt to treat the Protestant churches in a similar way to the Catholic church, which led to the difficulties that ended in the church struggle. There is also a realistic analysis of the Jewish question, documenting the churches’ failure in this area with severity and scholarly rigor. The first part covers developments up to Hitler’s seizure of power; the second is devoted to the year 1933, during which all the major issues were in fact decided.
Author | : Robert P. Ericksen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110701591X |
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In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Complicity in the Holocaust describes how the state's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, becoming active participants in the persecution of Jews, effectively giving Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime. Ericksen also examines Germany's deeply flawed yet successful postwar policy of denazification in these institutions.
Author | : John S. Conway |
Publisher | : Regent College Publishing |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781573830805 |
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Conway presents a landmark text on the history of German churches during the Nazi era.
Author | : John S. Conway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : 9781553610311 |
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First published in 1968, and subsequently translated into German, French, and Spanish, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches 1933-1945 has become a landmark text on the history of the German churches during the Nazi era. Based on a careful examination of documents dealing with church affairs from the Nazi archives that survived the collapse of the Third Reich, J.S. Conway gives the reader a detailed account of the methods by which Hitler and his followers sought to deal with the Christian churches in the 1930s and the 1940s. - Back cover.
Author | : Christopher J. Probst |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 025300098X |
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The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the 16th-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial anti-semitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst's study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther's texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a "de-Judaized" form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther's anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the anti-semitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.
Author | : Matthew D. Hockenos |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253110312 |
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This book closely examines the turmoil in the German Protestant churches in the immediate postwar years as they attempted to come to terms with the recent past. Reeling from the impact of war, the churches addressed the consequences of cooperation with the regime and the treatment of Jews. In Germany, the Protestant Church consisted of 28 autonomous regional churches. During the Nazi years, these churches formed into various alliances. One group, the German Christian Church, openly aligned itself with the Nazis. The rest were cautiously opposed to the regime or tried to remain noncommittal. The internal debates, however, involved every group and centered on issues of belief that were important to all. Important theologians such as Karl Barth were instrumental in pressing these issues forward. While not an exhaustive study of Protestantism during the Nazi years, A Church Divided breaks new ground in the discussion of responsibility, guilt, and the Nazi past.