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Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will
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pure and closed. Religion is the inner strength and finest flower in the intellectual life of a people, but it can only strongly affect expression in popular culture ... a deep connection between Christianity and Germanness can only be achieved when it is released from this unnatural connection,
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was the same as the "Father" and " Ghost", that Christ preached and that the Germans would have guessed. Childlike confidence in God and selfless love was, to them, the essence of the Germanic "people's-soul" in contrast to Jewish "menial fear of God" and "materialistic morality." Church was not an
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The forerunner of the ideology of the German Christians came from certain Protestant groups of the German Empire. These groups sought a return to perceived völkisch, nationalistic, and racist ideas within traditional Christianity, and looked to turn Christianity in Germany into a reformed intrinsic
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s ideas. Jesus should be a "tragic-Nordic figure" against the Old Testament's "religious idea", with the Old Testament replaced by a "German myth". Each biblical story was to be "measured under German feelings, so that German Christianity escapes from Semitic influence as Beelzebub did before the
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would be deemed "Jewish" for purposes of Hitlerian racial policy, so the net would certainly have swept wider than this rather small fraction. The extension of the prohibition to address the wives of German pastors was surely, to many middle-of-the-road Protestants, shocking. See
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is celebrated, it should at least not weigh in his dreams; ... otherwise there could come a whole lot of terrible Golgothas, where Jews across the whole world dance their jubilee songs on the grave of Christianity as heirs of a murdering people, singing to the Jahu they
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MĂĽller had poor political skills, little political support within the Church, and no real qualifications for the job, other than his commitment to Nazism and a desire to exercise power. When the federation council met in May 1933 to approve the new constitution, it elected
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in the so-called "church-historical working group", but they had little effect from then on in theology and politics. Other former members of the German Christians moved into the numerically insignificant religious communities known as the Free People's Christian Church
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have for a long time belonged to our most precious books, and we consider Lagarde's unabashed exposure of the inferiority of Semitic religious instincts and the pernicious effects on Christianity as an achievement that deserves our admiration and gratitude."
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and retained their subsidies from the government. Religious instruction in the schools continued, as did the theological faculties in the universities. The rights formerly held by the princes in the German Empire simply devolved to church councils.
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within the DEK and were, of course, supported by Nazi propaganda in their efforts to reverse the humiliating loss to Bodelschwingh. After a series of Nazi-directed political maneuvers, Bodelschwingh resigned and MĂĽller was appointed as the new
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was unveiled in Eisenach at the behest of eight Protestant regional churches. It is intended to be understood as the Protestant churches’ confession of guilt and as a memorial to the victims of the church’s anti-Judaism and antisemitism.
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Save for the organisational matters under the jurisdiction of the national League, the regional churches remained independent in other matters, including theology, and the federal system allowed for a great deal of regional autonomy.
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Against the "contamination by Jewish ideas", mainly from the Old Testament, the Churches and Germany should (he argued) be "mutually benefits and supports", and then Christianity would win back its status as "a religion of the
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and his preaching showed the influence of "German blood". He concluded that the Germans were the best Christians among all peoples, only prevented from the full flowering of their spiritual faculties by the materialistic Jews.
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at the end of 1933, was also an attempt to create a national religion outside and against the churches. It combined six earlier Nordic-völkisch oriented groups and a further five groups were represented by individual members.
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dynasties also organised church bodies that were territorially defined by their state borders. The same was true for the three republican German states within the pre-1918 Empire. In Alsace-Lorraine the Napoleonic system of
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is begotten, it may exist as a spiritual reality ... even foreign blood may be lent to it. How great the significance of blood might be in intellectual history, but the rule is, even if one is born into a
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in 1932. The group achieved no particular notoriety before the Nazi assumption of political power in January 1933. In the Prussian church elections of November 1932, German Christians won one-third of the vote.
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The German Christians were, for the most part, a "group of fanatically Nazi Protestants." They began as an interest group and eventually came to represent one of the schismatic factions of German Protestantism.
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stated that it recognised and "confess, with dismay, the co-responsibility and guilt of German Christians for the Holocaust." On May 6, 2019, eighty years after the founding of the “Dejudaisation Institute”,
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Wie wurde das Neue Testament zu einem sogenannten Volkstestament „entjudet“? Aus der Arbeit des Eisenacher „Instituts zur Erforschung und Beseitung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsch kirchliche Leben“
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was in part fiercely opposed among Christian German nationalists, seeing it as a racist attack on the foundations of their faith from inside and outside. Theologian Johannes Schneider, a member of the
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This church reorganisation had been a goal of the German Christians for some time, as such a centralisation would enhance the coordination of Church and State, as a part of the overall Nazi process of
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After considerable political maneuvering, state churches were abolished (in name) under the new Weimar government, but the anti-disestablishmentarians prevailed in substance: churches remained
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or the Cross? â€” The question is, for now, not yet evident. The Jew goes on his way purposefully, in any case ... his deadly hatred will defeat his opponent. When the Christian
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Jochen Birkenmeier, Michael Weise: Erforschung und Beseitigung. Das kirchliche „Entjudungsinstitut“ 1939–1945. Begleitband zur Ausstellung, Eisenach, 2019, p. 46-53 (in German).
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had no majorities of German Christians in their synods, thus protagonists of the Confessing Church considered these church bodies as constitutionally unadulterated (so-called
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has finally opened our eyes to the pernicious effects of the blood mixture between Germanic and un-German peoples and urges us, with all our forces, to strive to keep our
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Jochen Birkenmeier, Michael Weise: Erforschung und Beseitigung. Das kirchliche „Entjudungsinstitut“ 1939–1945. Begleitband zur Ausstellung, Eisenach, 2019, p. 110-111.
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and Catholic Internationalism were attacked as two facets of the Jewish spirit, and Rosenberg stated the need for a new national religion to complete the Reformation.
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After 1945, the remaining German Christian currents formed smaller communities and circles distanced from the newly formed umbrella of the independent church bodies
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Further pro-Nazi developments followed the elevation of MĂĽller to the DEK bishopric: in late summer the old-Prussian general synod (led by MĂĽller) adopted the
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The Nazis found the German Christians useful during the initial consolidation of power, but removed most of its leaders from their posts shortly afterwards;
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and their attempts to incorporate the Aryan paragraph into the church constitution so as to exclude Jewish Christians, the German Christians entered into a
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Hitler was infuriated with the rejection of his candidate, and things began to change. By June 1933 the German Christians had gained leadership of some
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Religion in the service of an ethno-nationalist construction of identity: discussions on the examples of the "German Christians" and Japanese Shinto
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In 1933 the Protestant churches in Germany employed about 18,842 pastors (1933); 37 of them were classified by the Nazi terminology as "full Jews" (
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stormtrooper. The swastikas were removed after the war and the former church has been reconstructed as a memorial to Nazi crimes against humanity.
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MĂĽller continued until 1945, but his power was effectively removed in favor of a government agency as a result of his obvious incompetence.
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The Deutsche Christen (German Christians) were a group of clergy and laypeople in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s who sought to synthesize
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or DEK). The new and unified national DEK would completely replace and supersede the old federated church with its representative league.
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the respect for temporal (secular) authority, which had been emphasised by Luther. The movement used scriptural support (
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of 1937 to 1940 could be curbed), the first edition of the text did not meet with the expected enthusiastic response.
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was in its full sway in the first few months of the regime. In late April 1933 the leadership of the 1922-founded
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of the new Protestant Reich Church by a wide margin, largely on the advice and support of the church leadership.
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In 1980, in the context of a statement entitled "Towards Renovation of the Relationship of Christians and Jews (
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Study and Eradication. The Church’s „Dejudaization Institute“, 1939–1945. Companion Volume to the Exhibition
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Nazism, Liberalism, & Christianity: Protestant social thought in Germany & Great Britain, 1925–1937
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Völkische Religion und Krisen der Moderne. Entwürfe „arteigener“ Glaubenssysteme seit der Jahrhundertwende
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by Guida Diehl, the first speaker of the National Socialist Women's League, got an admiring review by the
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Christlicher Antijudaismus und Antisemitismus. Theologische und kirchliche Programme Deutscher Christen
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of 28 regional (or provincial) churches. The federation operated officially through the representative
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became the group's "leader and representative" by acclamation, and other members included philosopher
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On this basis, the radical German-Christians' ideas were hardly slowed down. In 1928 they gathered in
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and the resulting political and social turmoil, the regional churches lost their secular rulers. With
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This article is about a Christian pressure group in Nazi Germany. For Christianity in Germany, see
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In 1939 with the approval of eleven of the German Protestant regional churches the Eisenacher
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is sometimes viewed as a model for Adolf Hitler's Nazism. Hitler praised Lueger in his book
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Wir verwerfen die falsche Lehre. Arbeits- und Lesebuch zur Barmer Theologischen Erklärung
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in the air, the conservative church leaders had to contend with socialists who favoured
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on which a "German Christianity on a Protestant basis" should be founded. It stated:
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The German Christians were sympathetic to the Nazi regime's goal of "co-ordinating" (
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Institute for Research and the Elimination of Jewish influence on German Church Life
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or DNVP) (a party fairly close to the political aims of the NSDAP), wrote in 1925:
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Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Glaube. Die „Deutschen Christen“ in Württemberg 1925–1960
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borders. Each state or provincial church was supported by and affiliated with the
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Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life
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Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life
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and of the struggle" and "the great exploiter of humanity, the evil enemy of our
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Wider das Vergessen: Schicksale judenchristlicher Pfarrer in der Zeit 1933-1945
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were therefore, to a large extent, combined on a regional basis. Monarchies of
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Die Deutsche Glaubensbewegung. Eine historische und soziologische Untersuchung
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The Politics of Cultural Despair: a study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
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Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, Volume 1
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Olaf KĂĽhl-Freudenstein (2005). "Krause, Reinhold". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.).
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Kleine politische Kirchengeschichte. 50 Jahre evangelischer Kirchenkampf
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book: German Reich 1938–August 1939, author: Susanne Heim, page: 797, url:
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It was claimed and remembered by the German Christians, as a "fact", that
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as an inspiration. In 1943, Nazi Germany produced the biographical film
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about Lueger, which was given the predicate "special political value".
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in 1934. Siegfried Leffler was a co-founder of the German Christians.
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without the precondition of, for example, the blood unit. But once a
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Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933 and the process of
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Martin Luther § Anti-Jewish polemics and antisemitism: 1543–1544
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soldier listening to Jesus and a baptismal font which featured an
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The Confessing Church grew out of the Pastors' Emergency League (
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and its constitutive states, as it existed before the end of the
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is a spiritual reality ... certainly there will never be a
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clergy of Jewish descent and even clergy married to non-Aryans.
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Their movement was sustained and encouraged by factors such as:
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Verses 1-7 are the most pertinent; verses 1-2 read as follows (
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Whoever cheapens the Old Testament will soon also lose the New.
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with other evangelical Christians. Their opponents founded the
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align German Protestantism as a whole towards those principles
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and disabled. His father, also a pastor, had founded Bethel.
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
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wherever it stands nakedly approached by the Jewish religion.
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to found the Thuringian German Christians' Church Movement (
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Logos used by the German Christians in 1932, 1935, and 1937
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and it emphatically recommended his work to its readers.
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that existed between 1932 and 1945, aligned towards the
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and claimed to be the true German Protestant Church.
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purge Christianity of everything they deemed Jewish
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Index

Faith Movement of German Christians
Religion in Germany
German Faith Movement

‹See Tfd›
German
pressure group
German Evangelical Church
antisemitic
racist
FĂĽhrerprinzip
Nazism
align German Protestantism as a whole towards those principles
schism
regional church bodies (Landeskirchen)
Germany
Confessing Church
Martin Luther § Anti-Jewish polemics and antisemitism: 1543–1544
Martin Luther § Posthumous influence within Nazism

adding to it
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Landeskirchen
provincial
regnal house
Church and state
Roman Catholic
Calvinist
Lutheran

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