Hitler: The Church
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- Created on: 21-11-22 15:02
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- Hitler: The Church
- Aims
- Art 24 of 25 point programme favoured 'Positive Christianity'
- Christianity seen as product of an inferior race
- Some religious loyalties were obstacles to devotion to the Fuhrer Cult
- Achieve aims of German Faith Movement
- Protestants
- Hitler paid tribute to Churches contributing to well-being of nation
- Church elections (July 1933) 'German Christians' able to Nazify the Church
- Ludwig Muller appointed as Reich Bishop
- Nov 1933: German Christians celebrate takeover in Sports Palace of Berlin
- Reiich Church forced to accept 'Aryan Paragraph'
- 18 Jewish Pastors dismissed
- Day of Potsdam (March 1933) gave impression of unity between Church and State
- Confessional Church
- Sep 1933: Dissident Pastors established Pastor's Emergency League
- Support of 5000 Pastors
- 1935: Ministry of Church Affairs established
- Campaign to persuade party members to renounce membership
- Members not allowed to hold office
- Priests and pastors forbidden to play a part in the party
- Sep 1933: Dissident Pastors established Pastor's Emergency League
- Catholics
- Catholics least likely to vote for Nazis in early 1930s
- 1933: Concordat signed between Church and Nazi Regime
- Catholic Church guaranteed freedom of religion
- Acceptance of Church's control over education
- Church not to interfere in politics
- Opposition
- 19,000 people turned out for July opposition procession
- 1937 - Pope Pius XI issued public letter 'With Burning Grief'
- Gestapo placed in organisations
- 200 Priests arrested and tried on sex charges
- Aims
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