Bruderkampf im eigenen Haus: Die evangelischen Pfarrer in Berlin und der Nationalsozialismus
In no other part of Germany were the divisions within the ranks of the Protestant milieu after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 so apparent as in the area of Greater Berlin. This cleavage ran through all the parishes and divided the pastors into two hostile camps. The two groups of the so-called &#...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2000
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2000, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 20-44 |
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| Summary: | In no other part of Germany were the divisions within the ranks of the Protestant milieu after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 so apparent as in the area of Greater Berlin. This cleavage ran through all the parishes and divided the pastors into two hostile camps. The two groups of the so-called 'German Christians' and the Confessing Church supporters were frequently at daggers drawn with each other. Approximately 40 % of the Berlin pastors joined - at least for a period - the ranks of the 'German Christians', while a third supported the Confessing Church. Almost every second 'German Christian' pastor was also a Nazi Party member. By contrast, party membership among the Confessing Church clergy was much rarer, though even there some joined. The object of this paper is to examine the various factors which led these Berlin pastors to adopt such contrary positions and to look at their biographies and careers, theological orientations and war experiences as causes of the subsequent unbridgeable positions adopted in 1933. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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