Religion in Nazi Germany
- Created by: Emily903
- Created on: 13-06-16 17:39
View mindmap
- Religion in Nazi Germany
- Reasons for keeping the church
- Church values e.g. about family
- Church support = Nazi support
- Effective public speakers
- Church could be used to teach Nazi ideals
- Smoke screen for Nazi policies
- Churches feared communism as it was based on atheism and Hitler hated communism
- Reasons for destroying the church
- Hitler wanted to be the only leader
- Churches promoted equality
- Churches believed peace should be strived for and that the strong should protect the weak
- The Church did not support the Weimar Republic as it did not do enough to promote religion
- Instead the republic was concern with material things
- After 1929 the republic was struggling to survive so why try to save it?
- Concordat 1933: Nazi authorities and the Catholic Church signed an agreement
- On the surface there appeared to be cooperation between the church and state from 1933 onwards
- Catholics accepted the Nazi party partly on the understanding that they would be left alone, but attacked the government for their human rights breeches
- Faith Movement: Pagan anti-Christian organisation which Hitler gave permission for it to be set and produced a journal
- Reich Church 1933: made up of about 2000 Protestant Churches, supported the Nazis, led by Ludwig Muller and some members wore Nazi uniforms and called themselves German Christians
- Confessional Church 1934: made up of about 6000 Protestant Churches, opposed the Nazis, led by Martin Niemoller and were repressed by the Nazis
- Many Priests that spoke out against the Nazis were arrested and sent to concentration camps and some were executed
- Pastor Niemoller originally supported the Nazis until the Reich Church was set up in 1934
- Reasons for keeping the church
Comments
No comments have yet been made