A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past, Matthew D. Hockenos (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004), xii + 269 pp, 29.95
The link between theological anti-Judaism and racial antisemitism remains tenuous in the eyes of many—perhaps most—German theologians to this day. This perception allows these scholars to protect the church from responsibility for the Holocaust and maintain the fiction that the theology of the altar...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 531-535 |
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| Summary: | The link between theological anti-Judaism and racial antisemitism remains tenuous in the eyes of many—perhaps most—German theologians to this day. This perception allows these scholars to protect the church from responsibility for the Holocaust and maintain the fiction that the theology of the altar is not affected by the politics of the throne. Matthew Hockenos presents a critical examination of the German Protestant Church’s immediate postwar reflection on its responsibility for the Third Reich and the Holocaust. His conclusion will come as no surprise to scholars of the church’s history: church leaders presented the church as having stood at the forefront of the resistance to Hitler. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci048 |