Church Opposition to Nazis
- Created by: Gem_22
- Created on: 30-05-15 17:30
View mindmap
- Church Opposition to Nazis
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Protestant
- Opposed Nazi policies on euthanasia.
- Put in Buchenwald concentration camp, then moved to Flossenburg and executed.
- Banned from preaching and college closed.
- Bishop Von Galen
- Catholic
- Opposed against euthanasia.
- Arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen Concentration camp.
- Euthanasia programme suspended because of him, and he was accused of being involved in an attempt to assassinate Hitler. No evidence was found.
- Pastor Martin Niemoller
- Protestant
- Opposed Nazi church and arrest of Christian ministers.
- Arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp.
- Was due to be executed, but was freed by the allies just before the end of WW2
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Comments
No comments have yet been made