Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
212 (2008) 46-49
Keywords:
Kristallnacht, 1938
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Protestants History 20th century
Abstract:
The "Kristallnacht" pogrom aroused a wave of enthusiasm in the pro-Nazi faction of the German Protestant Church, the Deutsche Christen movement. This group established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life in Thuringia in 1939, with the goal of de-Judaizing and "Aryanizing" Christianity. After the war some leaders of the movement, e.g. Walter Grundmann and Martin Redeker, retained their positions in the Protestant Church, both in West and East Germany, thus continuing the tradition of anti-Judaic Christianity.
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