Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany
Franz Hildebrandt, a German pastor of Jewish descent, fled Nazi persecution in 1937, making his way to England, where he served as a minister in Cambridge. During the Second World War Hildebrandt worked with the British Broadcasting Corporation as one of a cadre of pastors, mostly refugees of Jewish...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2023, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 90-115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hildebrandt, Franz 1909-1985
/ England
/ Third Reich
/ Sermon
/ British Broadcasting Corporation
/ History 1942-1945
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBB German language area KBF British Isles RE Homiletics ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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| Summary: | Franz Hildebrandt, a German pastor of Jewish descent, fled Nazi persecution in 1937, making his way to England, where he served as a minister in Cambridge. During the Second World War Hildebrandt worked with the British Broadcasting Corporation as one of a cadre of pastors, mostly refugees of Jewish descent, to preach German-language sermons over the airwaves. This article analyses Hildebrandt's sermons, delivered between 1942 and 1945, to an audience that risked prosecution and even death simply for listening. Within the constraints of a Christian worship service, Hildebrandt offered incisive criticisms of the Nazi regime from a distinctly religious perspective. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046921002219 |