Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
History and Memory; Studies in Representation of the Past
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,1 (2004) 146-176
Keywords:
Church history 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Comparing the postwar view of the Church of England toward Nazism with its view from the rise of Hitler, concludes that, rather than being a product of government wartime propaganda, the Anglican Church's postwar perspective was a continuation of its earlier one. The war was seen as a defense of both Britain and Christianity; the Nazis were primarily enemies of God and Christianity. The Nazis' racism and antisemitism were considered as secondary. This obfuscation of the Nazi past emphasized the alleged resistance activities of the Protestant Church rather than Nazi criminality, and also marginalized Jewish victims and the Holocaust. The Anglican Church opposed denazification, both because it continued to view the German people as innocents upon whom Nazism was imposed and because it viewed German Protestants as having been martyrs.
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