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Author : John S. Conway
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1573830801
Conway presents a landmark text on the history of German churches during the Nazi era.
Author : John S. Conway
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000032840025
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 : Wolfgang Gerlach
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803221657
An endlessly perplexing question of the twentieth century is how ?decent? people came to allow, and sometimes even participate in, the Final Solution. Fear obviously had its place, as did apathy. But how does one explain the silence of those people who were committed, active, and often fearless opponents of the Nazi regime on other grounds?those who spoke out against Nazi activities in many areas yet whose response to genocide ranged from tepid disquiet to avoidance? One such group was the Confessing Church, Protestants who often risked their own safety to aid Christian victims of Nazi oppression but whose response to pogroms against Jews was ambivalent.
Author : Heinz David Leuner
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000002184633
Argues that not all of Germany was enthusiastic about the Nazi regime, including its policies against the Jews, and that it is wrong to make improper generalizations on the Germans as a guilty nation. Brings numerous examples of Germans who helped Jews in 1933-45 and rescued them when the mass murders began. If even expressing compassion to Jews or protesting against Nazi politics in 1933-38 could be punished, so rescue of Jews during the war could inflict capital punishment on the rescuer. Dwells specifically on the attitudes and activities of the Churches vis-à-vis the Nazi persecution of Jews. The Catholic and various Protestant Churches, as institutions, failed to do their most to help Jews or Jewish converts to Christianity. But some clergymen of various denominations, from rank-and-file to higher up in the hierarchy, rescued Jews and Jewish converts and some paid for it with their lives. Although Catholics did more for victims of Nazi racial persecution than Protestants, as a whole the failure of the Catholic Church to withstand the Nazi policies presents a more grievous picture given its international character and greater independence of the Nazi state.
Author : Michel Reynaud,Sylvie Graffard
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461734246
The Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime, from 1933 to 1945. Unlike the Jews and others persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by renouncing their religious beliefs. The vast majority refused and throughout their struggle, continued to meet, preach, and distribute literature. In the face of torture, maltreatment in concentration camps, and sometimes execution, this unique group won the respect of many contemporaries. Up until now, little has been known of their particular persecution.
Author : Matthew D. Hockenos
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0253110319
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.
Author : J S Conway,Robert Gutman
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0465049079
Conway presents a landmark text on the history of German churches during the Nazi era.
Author : Traude Litzka
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9783643910363
This English translation of Traude Litzka's scholarly German work treats the Roman Catholic Church's attempt to assist Jews after the 1938 Anschluss transforming the country into a province of Nazi Germany engaged in persecuting Jews and all opposing the Nazi regime. The new regime's hostility to the Church threatened its beliefs and structure, keeping its substantial assistance to the Jewish population secret until the end of World War II.
Author : Mark Edward Ruff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107190665
Mark Edward Ruff re-examines the bitter controversies in the Federal Republic of Germany over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis.
Author : John Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101202494
The “explosive” (The New York Times) bestseller that “redefined the history of the twentieth century” (The Washington Post ) This shocking book was the first account to tell the whole truth about Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II, and it remains the definitive account of that era. It sparked a firestorm of controversy both inside and outside the Catholic Church. Award-winning journalist John Cornwell has also included in this seminal work of history an introduction that both answers his critics and reaffirms his overall thesis that Pius XII fatally weakened the Catholic Church with his endorsement of Hitler—and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.
Author : Robert W. Ross
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579101220
How much did American Protestants know about the Nazi persecution of European Jews before and during Word War II? Very little, many of them claimed in the postwar years. Robert W. Ross challenges that answer in this analysis of the ways in which Protestant journals ranging from The Christian CenturyÓ to The Arkansas BaptistÓ reported and editorialized on the subject from 1933 through 1945.
Author : John W. de Gruchy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521587816
This Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45). The book shows why Bonhoeffer remains such an attractive figure to so many people of diverse backgrounds. Its chapters, written by authors from differing national, theological and church contexts, provide a helpful introduction to, and commentary on, Bonhoeffer's life, work and writing and so guide the reader along the complex paths of his thought. Experts set out comprehensively Bonhoeffer's political, social and cultural contexts, and offer biographical information which is indispensable for the understanding of his theology. Major themes arising from the theology, and different interpretations to it, lead the reader into a dialogue with this most influential of thinkers who remains both fascinating and challenging. There is a chronology, a glossary and an index.
Author : Christopher J. Probst
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253000989
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 : Robert Gellately,Nathan Stoltzfus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691188355
When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. In these essays informed by the latest research, leading scholars offer rich histories of the people branded as "social outsiders" in Nazi Germany: Communists, Jews, "Gypsies," foreign workers, prostitutes, criminals, homosexuals, and the homeless, unemployed, and chronically ill. Although many works have concentrated exclusively on the relationship between Jews and the Third Reich, this collection also includes often-overlooked victims of Nazism while reintegrating the Holocaust into its wider social context. The Nazis knew what attitudes and values they shared with many other Germans, and most of their targets were individuals and groups long regarded as outsiders, nuisances, or "problem cases." The identification, the treatment, and even the pace of their persecution of political opponents and social outsiders illustrated that the Nazis attuned their law-and-order policies to German society, history, and traditions. Hitler's personal convictions, Nazi ideology, and what he deemed to be the wishes and hopes of many people, came together in deciding where it would be politically most advantageous to begin. The first essay explores the political strategies used by the Third Reich to gain support for its ideologies and programs, and each following essay concentrates on one group of outsiders. Together the contributions debate the motivations behind the purges. For example, was the persecution of Jews the direct result of intense, widespread anti-Semitism, or was it part of a more encompassing and arbitrary persecution of "unwanted populations" that intensified with the war? The collection overall offers a nuanced portrayal of German citizens, showing that many supported the Third Reich while some tried to resist, and that the war radicalized social thinking on nearly everyone's part. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Frank Bajohr, Omer Bartov, Doris L. Bergen, Richard J. Evans, Henry Friedlander, Geoffrey J. Giles, Marion A. Kaplan, Sybil H. Milton, Alan E. Steinweis, Annette F. Timm, and Nikolaus Wachsmann.
Author : Guenter Lewy
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0306809311
”The subject matter of this book is controversial,” Guenter Lewy states plainly in his preface. To show the German Catholic Church's congeniality with some of the goals of National Socialism and its gradual entrapment in Nazi policies and programs, Lewy describes the episcopate's support of Hitler's expansionist policies and its failures to speak out on the persecution of the Jews. To this tragic history Lewy brings new focus and research, illuminating one of the darkest corners of our century with scholarship and intellectual honesty in a riveting, and often painful, narrative.
