Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Church
- Nazis promised free worship for catholics in
return that atheists won't talk/ preach about
or interfere in politics
- Catholic schools were allowed to continue, and
bishops would swear loyalty to the Nazi state
- these promises didn't last
- unfriendly catholic priests
were arrested, harassed -
400 sent to Dachall
- Catholic schools were forced to teach
the Nazi way or they were closed
- Catholic youth groups were banned. By
1937, Pope Pius criticised the Nazi regime
- Protestant Church
- Nazis tried to control it, some preachers arrested -
mixed results. Worship often forced underground
- Reich Church
- set up by pro-Nazi protestants
- leader (Reich Bishop of Germany)
Ludwig Muller
- Displayed Nazi flags and thus
permitted by the government
- Confessional Church
- splinter church that opposed Nazi beliefs
- 800 ministers sent to concentration camps in
1937. Most famously Pastor Martin Niemoller