EAN: 9783039119042

CONFRONTING THE NAZI WAR ON CHRISTIANITY KARTON...

Contemporaries and historians have found it difficult to interpret the ambiguous relationship
between National Socialism and Christianity. Both the Catholic and Protestant Churches tended
to agree with National Socialists in their authoritarianism  their attacks on socialism and
communism  and their campaign against the Versailles Treaty  but the doctrinal position of the
Churches could not be reconciled with the principle of racism  a foreign policy of unlimited
aggressive warfare  or a domestic agenda involving the complete subservience of Church to
State. Important sections of the Nazi Party sought the complete extirpation of Christianity and
its substitution by a purely racial religion  but considerations of expediency made it
impossible for the National Socialist leadership to adopt this radical anti-Christian stance as
official policy. The Kulturkampf Newsletters  which have not appeared in English since the
1930s  were produced by German Catholic exiles in France. They scrupulously document the
tensions between various strands of Nazi policy  and the nature of the policy eventually
adopted: this was to reduce the Churches' influence in all areas of public life through the use
of every available means  yet without provoking the difficulties - diplomatic as well as
domestic - which an openly declared war of extermination might have caused.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9783039119042

Produktinformationen zur 9783039119042