Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
51,11 (2003) 973-995
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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Christian converts from Judaism
Abstract:
The German Christians dominated the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg. Its ministers and parish councils dismissed ministers of Jewish or part-Jewish descent, or hounded them, sometimes in cooperation with the SA, until they were forced to resign, often to flee. Many congregations excluded "non-Aryans" from services and denied them pastoral care. A German Christian minister, Karl Themel, organized the concentration of all the parish registers in one center and their transfer to a card file, making them easily accessible to genealogical investigation. Many ministers of the Confessing Church, too, remained set in anti-Jewish tradition or were at best ambivalent. But there were congregations, notably that of Helmut Gollwitzer in Dahlem, which showed solidarity with "non-Aryans". His parishioners, knowing that deportation meant death, provided hiding places and forged documents for their "non-Aryan" brethren. Several of them were arrested for these activities.
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