Die Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Sachsens und der Nationalsozialismus
Already in the late phase of the Weimar Republic there existed a broad affinity between the NSDAP and its ideology and a broad spectrum of church opinion in Saxony. More than this, within the Saxon church there were supporters of antisemitism and so-called "negative eugenics". During the s...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2005
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2005, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 182-237 |
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Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Sachsens
/ National Socialism
/ History 1918-1945
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| Summary: | Already in the late phase of the Weimar Republic there existed a broad affinity between the NSDAP and its ideology and a broad spectrum of church opinion in Saxony. More than this, within the Saxon church there were supporters of antisemitism and so-called "negative eugenics". During the so-called "machtergreifungsphase" in 1933 the new policies of the Nazi party encountered clear sympathy amongst leading figures in the Confessing church in Saxony, a sympathy which was paraded publicly. At the same time the concentration on the office of the regional bishop proved as fatal. After Bishop Ihrnel's death a power-vacuum arose which the Saxon Lutheranism was unable to fill. This became the gateway for the German Christians' own "power-seizure", which had the consequence of leading to a downright Nazification of the regional church. In 1935 the new regional church committee, which was supported by the Confessing Church, retreated from the worst excesses of the past two years, but maintained a course of loyal, if more moderate, approval of the regime's politics. Subsequently the church government of the German Christian Klotsche, which replaced the church committee, again began to infiltrate church life with Nazi ideas, and with a specific focus on antisemitism. It was after the war, in 1948, that a remarkably clear-sighted Synod of the regional church formulated a statement owning the responsibility of the State Church for the Jewish people. But the synod lacked the courage to publicise this confession immediately after their meeting. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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