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Twisted cross : the German Christian movement in the Third Reich / by Doris L. Bergen.
Author
Bergen, Doris L.
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
Description
xiii, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BR856 .B398 1996
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German-Christian movement
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History
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Germany
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Church history
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1933-1945
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Summary note
How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described "German Christians," who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old Testament, ousted people defined as non-Aryans from their congregations, denied the Jewish ancestry of Jesus, and removed Hebrew words like "Hallelujah" from hymns.
Bergen refutes the notion that the German Christians were a marginal group and demonstrates that members occupied key positions within the Protestant church even after their agenda was rejected by the Nazi leadership. Extending her analysis into the postwar period, Bergen shows how the German Christians were relatively easily reincorporated into mainstream church life after 1945. Throughout Twisted Cross, Bergen reveals the important role played by women and by the ideology of spiritual motherhood amid the German Christians' glorification of a "manly" church.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
One Reich, one people, one church! : the German Christians
The anti-Jewish church
The antidoctrinal church
The manly church
The non-Aryans in the people's church
Catholics, Protestants, and dreams of confessional union
Women in the manly movement
The ecclesiastical final solution
The church without rules
The bride of Christ at war
Postwar echoes.
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ISBN
0807845604 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780807845608 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0807822531 ((alk. paper))
9780807822531 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
95017954
OCLC
32430150
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