Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Nuova Antologia
Angaben zur Quelle:
2206 (1998) 105-121
Keywords:
Church history 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Catholic Church
Abstract:
Although they expressed moral disapproval of Nazi neo-paganism, the Churches in Germany never undertook acts of resistance as ecclesiastical organizations. Discusses the case of the Catholic Church and the Concordat between Germany and the Vatican (July 1933) which guaranteed existing Church privileges in return for legitimacy for the Nazi regime and support against the three evils of Marxism, liberalism, and the Jews. The papal encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" of 1937 accepted race to be in the order of nature. The Catholic Church expressed support for the Nazis' drive for "Lebensraum" and a crusade against Judeo-Bolshevism, and was indifferent to the fate of the Jews. The Protestant Churches were divided between the German Christians, led by Bishop Ludwig Müller, who approved of racism and denied the Jewish heritage of Christianity, and the Confessing Church, which protested against state totalitarianism and maltreatment of converted Jews (led by Karl Barth, Martin Niemöller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer).
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