Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nazis and the Church
- Threat
- Nearly all Germans - Christians
- belief = powerful
- Obey God > Obey Hitler
- Church Ideals
- Kindness vs Nazi ideals
- Anti Nazi
- Church spread anti nazi ideas
- Benefits of Church
- Votes
- Protestant pastors = Good nazi speakers
- Common Grounds
- Military
- 1936 - priests + army enter rhineland
- Family Life
- Treatment
- 1933 March
- Hitler
- Christianity = "the unshakable
foundation of the moral life of our
people"
- Deceptive kindness
- 1933 - Hitler tells a coleague
- "One is either a
christian or a
german"
- Helmut Thielicke 1933
- Hitler used christian vocab
- reported propaganda - he drew
strength from god
- Hatred
- Meeting of Faith movement
- "kill the priests"
- Faith movement
- Pagan
- Sun centre blue
background
- Nature worship
- Marriage
- Pagan rituals + setting
- Sun flag
- Bowls of fire
- Torch bearers