For the Soul of the People
Protestant Protest Against Hitler
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 1998
385 pages
978-0-19-534418-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Confessing Church was one of the rare German organizations that opposed Nazism from the very beginning, and in For the Soul of the People, Victoria Barnett delves into the story of the Church's resistance to Hitler. For this remarkable story, Barnett interviewed more than sixty Germans who were active in the Confessing Church, asking them to reflect on their personal experiences under Hitler and how they see themselves, morally and politically, today. She provides a haunting glimpse of the German experience under Hitler, but also gives a provocative look into what it has meant to be a German in the twentieth century.
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Victoria Barnett is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, New York, and a professional writer whose articles have appeared in Christianity and Crisis, The Christian Century, The Witness, and the news bulletins of Religious News Service. She lived in Germany for 13 years and now lives in Washington, D.C.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- I: OMENS
- 1. The Lost Empire
- 2. The Weimar Years
- 3. Nationalism, Nazism, and the Churches: The Early Period
- II: THE CONFESSING CHURCH IN THE NAZI ERA
- 4. Convictions and Conflicts
- 5. Daily Life and Work
- 6. The Murder of the Institutionalized Patients
- 7. The Confessing Church and the Jews
- 8. The War
- III: RESISTANCE AND GUILT
- 9. Reflections on Resistance
- 10. "The Guilt of Others
- IV: "THE INABILITY TO MOURN
- 11. Postwar Germans and Their Church: Rebirth or Restoration?
- 12. Political Developments and the East German Church
- 13. Political Issues and the West German Church
- 14. Christian Faith and Political Vision in Germany
- 15. Faith and the Fatherland
- Notes
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
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- D
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