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ISBN-13: 9781451464726
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
Translated by Mary M. Solberg
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Local release date: 01/04/2015
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 486 pages Weight: 740g
Categories: Church history [HRCC2]Germany [1DFG]c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) [3JJG]c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) [3JJH]

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Google Preview: Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. Almost all Germans were Christians, and almost all Christians in Germany stood by, becoming intentionally or unintentionally complicit in Nazi policies and practices. In the early 1930s, a movement emerged within German Protestantism with the aim of fully integrating Nazi ideology, German national identity, and Christian faith. The Deutsche Christen or, "German Christians," as they were called, interpreted the Christian faith and the role of the church in society in service of the Nazi revolution. They married centuries-old Christian anti-Judaism to the Nazis' racial antisemitism and sought to eradicate all traces of Judaism from Christianity. The "German Christian" publication program, designed to advance their ideology, included books and pamphlets, radio talks and speeches, as well as liturgies and retranslations of Scripture. This volume includes key responses critical of the German Christians by Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, among others.; Mary M. Solberg is associate professor of religion at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. She teaches on the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the conduct of the churches in Hitler's Germany, and the Holocaust, as well as contemporary theologies and health care ethics.; Google Preview content