Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism
Title | Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Hastings |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199843457 |
"Derek Hastings illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of Nazi history, revealing National Socialism's close, early ties with Catholicism in the years immediately after World War I, when the movement first emerged."--Jacket.
Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside
Title | Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside PDF eBook |
Author | Oded Heilbronner |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472109104 |
Challenges received wisdom about the relationship between Catholics and Nazis
The Aryan Jesus
Title | The Aryan Jesus PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah Heschel |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2010-10-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691148058 |
Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows that during the Third Reich, the Institute became the most important propaganda organ of German Protestantism, exerting a widespread influence and producing a nazified Christianity that placed anti-Semitism at its theological center. Based on years of archival research, The Aryan Jesus examines the membership and activities of this controversial theological organization. With headquarters in Eisenach, the Institute sponsored propaganda conferences throughout the Nazi Reich and published books defaming Judaism, including a dejudaized version of the New Testament and a catechism proclaiming Jesus as the savior of the Aryans. Institute members--professors of theology, bishops, and pastors--viewed their efforts as a vital support for Hitler's war against the Jews. Heschel looks in particular at Walter Grundmann, the Institute's director and a professor of the New Testament at the University of Jena. Grundmann and his colleagues formed a community of like-minded Nazi Christians who remained active and continued to support each other in Germany's postwar years. The Aryan Jesus raises vital questions about Christianity's recent past and the ambivalent place of Judaism in Christian thought.
The Catholic Church And Nazi Germany
Title | The Catholic Church And Nazi Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Guenter Lewy |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2009-09-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786751614 |
”The subject matter of this book is controversial,” Guenter Lewy states plainly in his preface. To show the German Catholic Church’s congeniality with some of the goals of National Socialism and its gradual entrapment in Nazi policies and programs, Lewy describes the episcopate’s support of Hitler’s expansionist policies and its failures to speak out on the persecution of the Jews. To this tragic history Lewy brings new focus and research, illuminating one of the darkest corners of our century with scholarship and intellectual honesty in a riveting, and often painful, narrative.
Complicity in the Holocaust
Title | Complicity in the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Robert P. Ericksen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2012-02-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110701591X |
In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Complicity in the Holocaust describes how the state's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, becoming active participants in the persecution of Jews, effectively giving Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime. Ericksen also examines Germany's deeply flawed yet successful postwar policy of denazification in these institutions.
Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany
Title | Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Krieg |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2004-02-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0826415768 |
Discusses a range of religious scholars, but focuses on five major theologians who were born during the Kulturkampf, came to maturity and international recognition during the Hitler era, and had an influence on Catholicism in the English-speaking world. While three were sympathetic to the Third Reich in varying degrees and the other two were publicly critical of the new regime, the book takes a look of each of their stances regarding the Third Reich's anti-Jewish propaganda.
Hitler's Religion
Title | Hitler's Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Weikart |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2016-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1621575519 |
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!