Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,1 (2003) 37-51
Keywords:
Stöcker, Adolf,
;
Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
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Antisemitism History 1871-
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Christianity and antisemitism History 1918-1933
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Christianity and antisemitism History 1933-1945
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Antisemitism, on the rise in Germany from the mid-1870s, also affected the Protestant Church. Adolf Stöcker saw a way to the "rechristianization" of human society in the elimination of the Jewish minority; however, he advocated conversion of the Jews, not their destruction. In the Weimar period, Wilhelm Lueder of Hannover and other Church spokesmen blamed Jews for all Germany's problems and called for a war against the "Jewish mind". They, too, advocated conversion as the solution. Under Nazi rule many Church leaders attuned their preachers and Christian youth instruction to Nazi racial antisemitism and anti-Jewish policies. There was some opposition to the antisemitic tendency in German Protestantism, but it was suppressed in the Nazi period.
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