Religion in Nazi Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Religion in Nazi Germany


00:03:19 1 Background
00:05:57 2 Organized religion in Germany 1933–1945
00:06:10 2.1 Denominational trends during the Nazi period
00:10:41 2.2 National Socialist attitudes towards Christianity
00:26:41 2.3 iKirchenkampf/i (church struggle)
00:31:12 2.3.1 Protestantism
00:31:20 2.3.1.1 Martin Luther
00:33:37 2.3.1.2 Protestant groups
00:34:45 2.3.1.2.1 Ludwig Müller
00:40:02 2.3.2 Jehovah's Witnesses
00:41:44 2.3.3 Catholicism
00:43:03 2.3.4 Church hierarchy
00:46:21 2.3.5 Plans for the Roman Catholic Church
00:47:53 2.4 Churches and the war effort
00:52:41 3 National Socialist anti-Semitism
00:55:49 4 Other beliefs
00:56:32 4.1 Atheists
00:58:31 4.2 Esoteric groups
00:59:45 5 Religious aspects of Nazism
01:01:52 5.1 Relation of religion to fascism
01:03:39 5.2 Messianic aspects of Nazism
01:04:27 5.3 Thuringian German Christian Prayer for Hitler
01:05:23 6 See also
01:06:00 7 Notes and references
01:06:09 8 Referred literature
01:07:08 9 External links



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For the significance of occultism and paganism in Nazism see the article Religious aspects of Nazism.In 1933, 5 years prior to the annexation of Austria into Germany, the population of Germany was approximately 67% Protestant and 33% Catholic, while the Jewish population was less than 1%. A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era and after the annexation of mostly Catholic Austria and mostly Catholic Czechoslovakia into Germany, indicates that 54% considered themselves Protestant, 40% Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as gottgläubig (lit. "believing in God", often described as predominately creationist and deistic), and 1.5% as "atheist".There was some diversity of personal views among the Nazi leadership as to the future of religion in Germany. Anti-Church radicals included Hitler's Personal Secretary Martin Bormann, Minister for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, paganist Nazi Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, and paganist occultist Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Some Nazis, such as Hans Kerrl, who served as Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs pushed for "Positive Christianity", which was a uniquely Nazi form which rejected its Jewish origins and the Old Testament, and portrayed "true" Christianity as a fight against Jews, with Jesus depicted as an Aryan.Nazism wanted to transform the subjective consciousness of the German people—their attitudes, values and mentalities—into a single-minded, obedient "national community". The Nazis believed they would therefore have to replace class, religious and regional allegiances.  Under the Gleichschaltung process, Hitler attempted to create a unified Protestant Reich Church from Germany's 28 existing Protestant churches. The plan failed, and was resisted by the Confessing Church. Persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany followed the Nazi takeover. Hitler moved quickly to eliminate Political Catholicism. Amid harassment of the Church, the Reich concordat treaty with the Vatican was signed in 1933, and promised to respect Church autonomy. Hitler routinely disregarded the Concordat, closing all Catholic institutions whose functions were not strictly religious. Clergy, nuns, and lay leaders were targeted, with thousands of arrests over the ensuing years. The Church accused the regime of "fundamental hostility to Christ and his Church". Historians resist however a simple equation of Nazi opposition to both Judaism and Christianity.  Nazism was clearly willing to use the support of Christians who accepted its ideology, and Nazi opposition to both Judaism and Christianity was not fully analogous in the minds of the Nazis.Smaller religious minorities such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and Bahá'í Faith were banned in Germany, while the eradication of Judaism by the genocide of its adherents was attempted. The Salvation Army, the Christian Saints and the Seventh-day Adventist Church all disappeared from Germany, while astrologers, healers and fortune teller ...