Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Church History
Angaben zur Quelle:
66,3 (1997) 522-536
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Church history 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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National socialism Philosophy
Abstract:
In the Third Reich, 600,000 Germans participated in the German Christian movement, which sought to eradicate any reference to the Jewish roots of Christianity and agitated for a "people's church" based on blood and race and compatible with Nazism. The memoirs and histories of German military chaplains generally depict them as untainted by Nazi influence, but the archival record reveals a different story. Ca. 50 of the 480 Protestant chaplains in the German army were active in the German Christian movement; even those chaplains who were indifferent or antagonistic to it, promoted the movement's claim that Germany's religious traditions reinforced National Socialism. On the eastern front, especially, soldiers welcomed the German chaplains' efforts to blame Jews for causing the war and to link them to a global conspiracy.
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