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Nazism. Nazi Germany was an overwhelmingly Christian nation. A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era [1] and a year following the annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia [2] into Germany, indicates [3] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig [4 ...
e. Popes Pius XI (1922–1939) and Pius XII (1939–1958) led the Catholic Church during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Around a third of Germans were Catholic in the 1930s, most of them lived in Southern Germany; Protestants dominated the north. The Catholic Church in Germany opposed the Nazi Party, and in the 1933 elections, the ...
The Roman Catholic Church suffered persecution in Nazi Germany. The Nazis claimed jurisdiction over all collective and social activity. Clergy were watched closely, and frequently denounced, arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Welfare institutions were interfered with or transferred to state control.
[58] [59] William L. Shirer wrote that, "under the leadership of Rosenberg, Bormann and Himmler – backed by Hitler – the Nazi regime intended to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early tribal Germanic gods with the new paganism of the Nazi extremists". [186]
Positive Christianity (German: positives Christentum) was a religious movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or significant elements of Nicene Christianity. Adolf Hitler used the term in point 24 [a] of ...
Catholic Church and Nazi Germany during World War II. The German nun and saint Edith Stein. Ethnically Jewish, she was arrested at a Netherlands convent and murdered in the gas chambers Auschwitz, following a protest by Dutch bishops against the abduction of Jews. Several Catholic countries and populations fell under Nazi domination during the ...
In light of evidence such as his fierce criticism and vocal rejection of the tenets of Christianity, [30] numerous private statements to confidants denouncing Christianity as a harmful superstition, [29] and his strenuous efforts to reduce the influence and independence of Christianity in Germany after he came to power, Hitler's major academic ...
Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany was a component of German resistance to Nazism and of Resistance during World War II. The role of the Catholic Church during the Nazi years remains a matter of much contention. From the outset of Nazi rule in 1933, issues emerged which brought the church into conflict with the regime and persecution of the ...