Volkgem Church Flashcards
(15 cards)
Issue for Hitler
2
Hitler unified by race
religion divided and deeply rooted
Catholic Church Global
PROTESTANT
membership
40mil
PROTESTANT
views
right wing conservative anti semetic
PROTESTANT
Hitlers approach
3
- Appointed Ludwig Muller as Reich Bishop
- Gleichschaltung (nazifying church)
- Make Reich Church
PROTESTANT
Ludwig Muller 2
- replaced church officials with Nazis
- Mass Nazi weddings in churches
PROTESTANT
Reich bishop
Ludwig Muller
PROTESTANT
resistance
Martin Neimoller (confessional church)
CATHOLIC
beliefs
loyal to pope not Hitler
CATHOLIC
signed a ____
concordat
CATHOLIC
what’s a concordat
catholic don’t interfere with nazis nazis won’t interfere with catholics
CATHOLIC
What happened with concordat
Nazis broke it - night of the long knives and censorship
CATHOLIC
resistance
2
Bishop von galen - T4 movement
Pope ‘with burning grief’ encyclical (apology for collaboration)
CATHOLIC
Membership
22mil
OVERALL 3
1.both weakened but not destroyed 1939
2.failed to unite protestants (confessional church)
3.Encyclical
German Faith Movement
Hitlers further push for rejecting christianity
failed - only 40,000 members at peak