Product Description: Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Protestant...read more

The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the 16th-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst's study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther's texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a "de-Judaized" form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther's anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the antisemitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.

Product Description: Contemporaries and historians have found it difficult to interpret the ambiguous relationship between National Socialism and Christianity. Both the Catholic and Protestant Churches tended to agree with National Socialists in their authoritarianism, their attacks on socialism and communism, and their campaign against the Versailles Treaty; but the doctrinal position of the Churches could not be reconciled with the principle of racism, a foreign policy of unlimited aggressive warfare, or a domestic agenda involving the complete subservience of Church to State...read more

Product Description: Professor Scholder's book is a major contribution to our understanding of Christianity under the Nazi regime, in some ways going beyond his definitive history of the German churches under the Third Reich. The volume paints a vivid picture of the problems of living under any kind of totalitarian regime, with a wealth of detailed evidence and insightful judgments...read more

Documents the controversial relationship between the Catholic Church and the Nazis, citing how a communist-wary Vatican maintained a policy of non-interference in Nazi persecutions and withheld crucial information about Nazi activities.

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Based on interviews with more than sixty German Protestants active in the Confessing Church, a thoughtful examination of this splinter group from the Nazi-controlled Protestant Church reveals the extent of Nazi anti-Christian persecution. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This study of Protestantism in Nazi Germany examines the history of Christianity in the relationship between theology and politics, particularly the encounter between German Protestantism and National Socialism. Opening up a comparative viewpoint from which to address the strengths and weaknesses of the individual responses, the authors examine five Protestant or National Socialist types: they are represented by the confessional position of Karl Barth, the neo-Conservative Paul Althaus, the National Socialist Emanuel Hirsch, the Liberal Martin Rade, and the religious Socialist Paul Tilich...read more

Product Description: Common sense, Michael Phayer reminds us, serves as a warning that a population as large as the Christian women in Germany could not possibly have been socially, politically, or temperamentally monolithic in its posture toward National Socialism...read more

Product Description: Why did some German Catholics support and others oppose the police state that was the Third Reich? In this insightful analysis, Donald Dietrich explores the social-psychological dynamics behind the religious reactions of German Catholics to political and moral issues during the late Weimar and Third Reich eras...read more