Nazi Methods of Control & Opposition - THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Differences in values and beliefs.

Percentage of German people who are Christian.

Nazism as a religion.

Hitler was determined to reduce the influence of the Catholic Church.

Reasons why Hitler wanted to use the Catholic Church.

Reasons why Hitler wanted to destroy the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church - what happened?

Christian response.

The unintended result.

Division in the Protestant Church.

Reich Church.

When was the Reich Church established?

Leader of the Reich Church & the date of this status.

Name of the most devoted Reich Church members.

What was their motto?

Confessional Church.

Leader of the Confessional Church.

Comparison of numbers in followers between the Reich and the Confessional Churches.

Hitler's response to opposition from the Confessional Church.

The unintended result (again!).

Martin Niemoller's original response to Nazism, in 1933.

Niemoller's change in views.

Year that Niemoller established the Confessional Church.

What prompted Niemoller's arrest in July, 1937, and eventual re-arrest into Dachau Concentration Camp?

Did Niemoller survive his sentence in Dachau?

Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

What did Bonhoeffer believe?

What did Bonhoeffer openly speak out about the most against the Nazi regime?

What happened to Bonhoeffer in 1937?

What was the 'Abwehr'?

What year did Bonhoeffer join 'Abwehr'?

What was 'Operation 7'?

When was Bonhoeffer arrested by the Gestapo for plotting to conspire against Hitler?

What was Bonhoeffer's sentence from 1942?

Did Bonhoeffer survive his sentence in the concentration camp?