Widerstand im Dritten Reich - ein kompatibler Forschungsgegenstand für gegenseitige Verständigung heute? Anfragen aus historisch-theologischer Perspektive
At present there is a methodological debate among historians who are investigating the subject "Resistance during the Third Reich" in different ways: One group, the so-called "Intentionalists" are interested above all in the motives, aims and arguments of individuals and groups w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1988
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1988, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 50-68 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | At present there is a methodological debate among historians who are investigating the subject "Resistance during the Third Reich" in different ways: One group, the so-called "Intentionalists" are interested above all in the motives, aims and arguments of individuals and groups who practiced resistance. Since the seventies another school of historians - the so-called "Functionalists" - has exercised more and more influence. This school investigates the social and political conditions behind the resistance-activities and behavior designed to ward off, dam and limit NS-rule and NS-ideology. The sociological and structural-oriented procedure of these scholars seems to make possible a certain quantitative compatibility as to the results of resistance-investigations beyond different political systems (and their technical terms), scholarly disciplines and personal points of view. But in a church-historical perspective — this article claims — it is absolutely necessary not to stop at this point, but to complement this kind of research in a qualitative way which gives the theological (or religious or ideological) arguments and reflections of resistant people their own right and dignity - irrespective of the final success of their resistance. To discuss the quality of these arguments within their own frame of reference is just as important for finding the historical truth as the study of the empirical outcome of German resistance. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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