The Holy Reich
Subtitle: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521603522
Subjects: Christianity; European history: from c 1900 -; History of religion; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust; History; History - General History; History: World; Germany; Christianity - History - General; Europe - Germany; History / Europe / General; Europe - General
First sentence: The narrative of the early history of Nazism is well enough known: The trauma of defeat in the First World War, the guilt clause of the Versailles Treaty, and the domestic upheaval of the failed November Revolution all conspired to produce a cacophony of rightist fringe groups determined to overthrow the newly created Weimar Republic.