Nazi Religious Policies and Attitudes to the Churches - Germany
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- Nazi Religious Policies and Attitudes to the Churches
- Christianity and Nazism
- Christianity's teaching of love and peace contradicted the Nazi's of war and violence
- Jesus was Jewish - contradicting the Aryan superiority beliefs. Most Germans were Christian so were unlikely to support Hitler
- The Protestant Church
- Coordination with the Church
- Hitler wanted to make a united Reich Church, but this was opposed by the Protestants
- Otto Muller was appointed Reich Bishop. He was a fanatical Nazi
- Opposition with the Protestant Church
- 1934 - two Protestant Bishops were arrested for opposing the Reich Church
- Pastors set up the Confessional Church, which was separate from the state. Pastor Niemoller led it and had the support of 7,000/17,000 pastors
- Coordination with the Church
- The Catholic Church
- The Catholic Church signed the Concordat in 1933, which guaranteed religious freedom as the Church could run itself and appoint clergy
- The Nazis agreed not to interfere with the legal property rights of the Church; they Church agreed to keep out of politics
- The Nazis later tried to coordinate the Catholic Youth
- The German Faith Movement
- The Nazis established a Teutonic Paganism as an alternative to Christianity
- TP upheld a racial belief based on blood and soil
- Introduced pagan ceremonies, replacing them with Christian ones
- Rejected Christian ethics
- Upheld Hitler's Cult of Personality
- Church and State relations
- By 1935 Nazis had failed to coordinate Churches and there was growing opposition. Persecution was risky because many Germans were Christian
- The Ministry of Church Affairs adopted policies to undermine the Church. Some campaigns harassed bishops and in some areas Church schools were removed and religious symbols banned
- Christianity and Nazism
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