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Twisted Cross
The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich
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1996
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2nd Revised edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-4560-8 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-4560-8 (ISBN)
This text addresses how Germany's Christians responded to Nazism by focusing on the 600,000 self-described ""German Christians"" who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. It also shows how German Christians were incorporated into mainstream church life after 1945.
How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? 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 incorporated into mainstream church life after 1945. Throughout the book, Bergen reveals the important role played by women and by the ideology of spiritual motherhood amid the German Christians' glorification of a ""manly"" church.
How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? 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 incorporated into mainstream church life after 1945. Throughout the book, Bergen reveals the important role played by women and by the ideology of spiritual motherhood amid the German Christians' glorification of a ""manly"" church.
Doris L. Bergen is a member of the academic advisory board of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto.
Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 536 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8078-4560-4 / 0807845604 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8078-4560-8 / 9780807845608 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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