page_title: German Christians (movement)
section_title: Nazi Germany
hierarchical_section_title: German Christians (movement) / History / Nazi Germany
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Die große Feier des Luthertages im Lustgarten in Berlin! Bischof Hossenfelder hält die Ansprache auf der Rampe des Berliner Schlosses im Lustgarten. 19.11.1933
context_page_description: German Christians was a pressure group and a movement within the German Evangelical Church that existed between 1932 and 1945, aligned towards the antisemitic, racist and Führerprinzip ideological principles of Nazism with the goal to align German Protestantism as a whole towards those principles. Their advocacy of these principles led to a schism within 23 of the initially 28 regional church bodies in Germany and the attendant foundation of the opposing Confessing Church in 1934.
caption: German Christians celebrating Luther-Day in Berlin in 1933, speech by bishop Hossenfelder
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