Reinventing Protestant Germany : religious nationalists and the contest for post-Nazi democracy

A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany’s Protestant churches, longtime strongholds of nationalism and militarism, largely backed the Nazi dictato...

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1. Verfasser: Bloch, Brandon (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England : Harvard University Press, [2025]
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Harvard historical studies 196
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Harvard historical studies
Schlagworte:HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy HISTORY / Europe / Germany RELIGION / Christianity / History RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State german protestantism post-war germany nazism religious nationalism democratic transition mehr... denazification religious complicity historical memory post-war democracy political theology religious politics constitutional democracy german history human rights historical whitewashing religious transformation protestant church political change religious identity post-nazi germany church politics religious democracy historical reconciliation christian nationalism religious reform Victoria Barnett For the Soul of the People Doris Bergen Twisted Cross Susannah Heschel The Aryan Jesus Michael Phayer The Catholic Church and the Holocaust Robert Ericksen Complicity in the Holocaust HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (400 p.)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • chapter oneA CHURCH IN CRISIS
  • chapter twoFROM THE TOTAL STATE TO THE LIMITS OF OBEDIENCE
  • chapter threePOST-N AZI JUSTICE AND PROTESTANT HUMAN RIGHTS
  • chapter fourFAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND THE BA TTLE FOR THE BASIC LAW
  • chapter fiveREARMAMENT AND THE MYTHSOFRESISTANCE
  • chapter sixTHE EASTERN BORDER AND THE BOUNDS OF RECONCILIATION
  • chapter sevenEMERGENCIES OF DEMOCRACY
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX