The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-1945Regent College Publishing, 1997 - 516 pages "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. |
Contents
Preface | xi |
The Seizure of Power I | xxxii |
The Rise and Fall of the German Christians and | 45 |
Politics do not belong in the Church | 67 |
The Church must be separate from the State | 95 |
The Establishment of the Ministry of Church Affairs | 116 |
the Ideological | 140 |
The Rival Claimants for Body and Soul | 168 |
Collaboration or Intimidation? | 202 |
The Uneasy Armistice | 232 |
The Hammer and the Anvil | 254 |
The Final Settlement | 291 |
Common terms and phrases
activities Adolf Hitler anti-clerical attack attempt attitude authority Bavaria Bekennende Kirche believed Berlin Bormann campaign Catholic Church Catholic Youth Centre Party Church affairs Church Struggle churchmen clergy concentration camps Concordat Confessing Church confiscated declared decree denominational despite DGFP Note I/27 doctrine force Foreign Ministry Führer Gauleiter GCGR German Catholics German Christians German Evangelical Church German Faith Movement Germany's Gestapo Goebbels Greiser Heydrich hierarchy Himmler Hitler Youth hostility ideology influence institutions issued Jäger Jewish Jews July Kerrl later leadership letter loyalty measures Minister Munich National Socialism National Socialist Nazi leaders Nazi Party Nazism Niemöller NSDAP Nuncio opposition organizations parishes pastors persecution Poland Pope priests prohibited propaganda protest Prussian refused régime Reich Chancellery Reich Church religion religious instruction resistance Rosenberg schools Schu Note I/54 spiritual Synod theological Third Reich tion Unpublished Nuremberg document Vatican Völkischer Beobachter Warthegau whole Württemberg