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Storm troopers of Christ : Baptism and the Jews in Nazi Germany / a film by Steven D. Martin ; written, produced and directed by Steven D. Martin ; Vital Visions Incorporated.
LIBRA DVD 001 427
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Hossenfelder, Joachim, 1899-.
- Hossenfelder, Joachim.
- German-Christian movement--History.
- German-Christian movement.
- National socialism and religion.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Jews.
- History.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Storm troopers of Christ : Baptism and the Jews in the Third Reich
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Vital Visions, Inc. : [distributed by Vital Visuals Inc.], [2008?]
- Language Note:
- In English with some German subtitled in English.
- System Details:
- DVD; optimized for widescreen televisions; Dolby digital 2.0.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby digital 2.0
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- In 1933 Berlin Bishop Joachim Hossenfelder proclaimed the popular, pro-Nazi "German Christian" movement the "Storm Troopers of Christ." Hossenfelder led the early phase of a movement that still echoes through the church today, even though the world has tried to forget. This film looks at the people who lived through the movement: Ludwig Mueller, the bishop of the Third Reich, Martin Niemoeller, the first to resist the Nazification of the church, Karl Themel, a pastor who used baptismal certificates to send "Jewish Christians" to the concentration camps, Werner Syltan, a pastor who died at Dachau because of his work on behalf of persons of Jewish descent amd Walter Grundmann, a reknown Biblical scholar and architect of the "Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life."
- Participant:
- Narrator, Matt Shafer-Powell; featuring: Wolfgang Krogel, Dagmar Herzog, Glen Stassen, Susannah Heschel, Doris Bergen, Robert Ericksen, Richard Steigmann-Gall, Manfred Gailus
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 2007.
- Special features: slideshow.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780979061745
- 0979061741
- OCLC:
- 191821702
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