The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945–1980
Title | The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945–1980 PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edward Ruff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2017-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110812139X |
Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1980 over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis. He explores why these cultural wars consumed such energy, dominated headlines, triggered lawsuits and required the intervention of foreign ministries. He argues that the controversies over the church's relationship to National Socialism were frequently surrogates for conflicts over how the church was to position itself in modern society - in politics, international relations and the media. More often than not, these exchanges centered on problems perceived as arising from the postwar political ascendancy of Roman Catholics and the integration of Catholic citizens into the societal mainstream.
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945--1980
Title | The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945--1980 PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edward Ruff |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9781108123198 |
"Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1980 over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis. He explores why these cultural wars consumed such energy, dominated headlines, triggered lawsuits and required the intervention of foreign ministries. He argues that the controversies over the church's relationship to National Socialism were frequently surrogates for conflicts over how the church was to position itself in modern society--in politics, international relations and the media. More often than not, these exchanges centered on problems perceived as arising from the postwar political ascendancy of Roman Catholics and the integration of Catholic citizens into the societal mainstream"--Provided by publisher.
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980
Title | The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edward Ruff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2017-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107190665 |
Mark Edward Ruff re-examines the bitter controversies in the Federal Republic of Germany over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis.
Hitler, the War, and the Pope
Title | Hitler, the War, and the Pope PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald J. Rychlak |
Publisher | Our Sunday Visitor |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781592765652 |
Was Pope Pius XII a Nazi Sympathizer? For almost 50 years, a controversy has raged about Pope Pius XII. Was the Pope who had shepherded the Church through World War II a Nazi sympathizer? Was he, as some have dared call him, Hitler's pope? Did he do nothing to help the Jewish people in the grips of the Holocaust? In a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented analysis of the historical record, Ronald Rychlak has gotten past the anger and emotion and uncovered the truth about Pius XII. Not only does he refute the accusations against the Pope, but for the first time documents how the slanders against him had their roots in a Soviet Communist campaign to discredit him and by extension, the Church.
Wehrmacht Priests
Title | Wehrmacht Priests PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Faulkner Rossi |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2015-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674598482 |
Lauren Faulkner Rossi plumbs the moral justifications of Catholic priests who served willingly and faithfully in the German army in World War II. She probes the Church’s accommodations with Hitler’s regime, its fierce but often futile attempts to preserve independence, and the shortcomings of Church doctrine in the face of total war and genocide.
German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945
Title | German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Brodie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198827024 |
German Catholicism at War explores the role Roman Catholicism played in shaping the moral economy of German society during the Second World War. Drawing on previously unused source materials, German Catholicism at War examines the complex relationship between Catholics and Nazi authorities and religious responses to the war.
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.