THEOLOGICAL MYTH, GERMAN ANTISEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST: THE CASE OF MARTIN NIEMOELLER
The foremost leader of the most significant resistance to Nazism during the first five years of the Third Reich was the Protestant pastor Martin Niemoeller. He — as well as most of the rest of the leadership —agreed, however, with the Nazi regime in its position on the Jewish question. Both Nazis an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1987
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1987, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 105-122 |
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| Summary: | The foremost leader of the most significant resistance to Nazism during the first five years of the Third Reich was the Protestant pastor Martin Niemoeller. He — as well as most of the rest of the leadership —agreed, however, with the Nazi regime in its position on the Jewish question. Both Nazis and their Protestant opponents were antisemitic, based on nearly two millennia of theological Judenhass. They concurred that Jews were evil beings who deserved to suffer in this world. This agreement in anti-Jewish attitudes, along with other factors such as German nationalism and Lutheran Obrigkeit, weakened and nearly ruined the ability of the resisters to set themselves up as the moral opposition to Hitler. This kind of evil harmony between Nazis and anti-Nazis would be fatal for the Jews. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/2.1.105 |