Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Gottes Ehre erzählen
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1994) 165-184
Keywords:
Deutsche Christen (Nationalkirchliche Einung)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1933-1945
Abstract:
In the 1920s-30s the German Christian movement demanded the elimination of Jews from German life, but regarding baptized Jews opinions ranged from full acceptance in the Church to demands for their exclusion. At the Sportpalast rally of the radical wing of the Deutsche Christen in November 1933, a resolution was passed calling for the dismissal of non-Aryan clergy and the formation of separate non-Aryan congregations. However, the main body of the movement rejected this resolution. Thus, it did not differ essentially from the Confessing Church, which also protected non-Aryans while accepting their discrimination by the state. From 1937 the radical National Church movement intensified its propaganda against non-Aryans as well as against Jewish elements in Christianity. In 1939, churches controlled by German Christians in several of the Länder prohibited non-Aryans from administering the sacraments; in 1941 they were expelled from the Church altogether. Queries to what extent the antisemitism of the German Christians helped spur Nazi persecutions.
URL:
Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
Permalink
