Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Central European History
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,3 (1994) 329-348
Keywords:
Church history 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Neither the Churches nor the Nazi authorities succeeded in overcoming the confessional split in Germany, and the appeal to common anti-Jewish sentiments in both Churches did not achieve this end. However, antisemitism was used both in the struggle of the Churches for survival under Nazism and in the attempts of the Nazis to attract German Christians to National Socialism. Both Churches tried hard to prove their "Germanness, " and thus they resorted to anti-Jewish discourse. Both Churches collaborated with the Nazis - e.g. in preparing the "Aryan certificates." Catholics and Protestants accused the rival Church of "Jewishness, " and both of them accused the Confessing Church of the same. Ecclesiastical antisemitism worsened the situation of the Jews in Germany and in the occupied areas, and resulted in great disappointment of Jews in the Protestant Church, with which they had good relations.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust; Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" I (2004).
DOI:
10.1017/S0008938900010256
URL:
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