Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Hebraica
Angaben zur Quelle:
6 (2006) 239-247
Keywords:
Church history 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism Philosophy
Abstract:
Presents four possible moral options of German Christians in regard to the relations between Christian ethics and the ideology of Nazism, especially Nazi antisemitism. Two stances were adopted by politicians: the "manifest anti-Christian attitude" rejected Christianity, due to its Judaic roots, in favor of neo-paganism, while the "enforced synthesis attitude" de-Judaized and Aryanized Christianity. Two other stances were adopted by Christians. The "interested accommodation attitude" entailed moral compromise, such as that involved in the 1933 Vatican concordat with the Nazis. The last, rarely adopted option was heroic resistance, such as that of the Bekennende Kirche and Pastor Niemöller.
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