Twisted cross : the German Christian movement in the Third Reich /
Bergen, Doris L.
Twisted cross : the German Christian movement in the Third Reich / by Doris L. Bergen. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-330) and index.
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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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.
Electronic reproduction.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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0585026513 9780585026510 0807860344 9780807860342
1933-1945
German-Christian movement--History.
Chrétiens allemands (Mouvement)--Histoire.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
German-Christian movement--History.
German-Christian movement
Antisemitismus
Deutsche Christen
Deutsche Christen.
Derde Rijk.
Germany--Church history--1933-1945.
Allemagne--Histoire religieuse--1933-1945.
Germany--Church history--1933-1945.
Germany
Church history
History
BR856 / .B398 1996eb
261.7/0943/09043
000089117
Twisted cross : the German Christian movement in the Third Reich / by Doris L. Bergen. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-330) and index.
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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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
0585026513 9780585026510 0807860344 9780807860342
1933-1945
German-Christian movement--History.
Chrétiens allemands (Mouvement)--Histoire.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
German-Christian movement--History.
German-Christian movement
Antisemitismus
Deutsche Christen
Deutsche Christen.
Derde Rijk.
Germany--Church history--1933-1945.
Allemagne--Histoire religieuse--1933-1945.
Germany--Church history--1933-1945.
Germany
Church history
History
BR856 / .B398 1996eb
261.7/0943/09043
000089117