For the soul of the people : Protestant protest against Hitler / Victoria Barnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Victoria, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Church and state.

Germany--Church history--1933-1945.

Germany.

Bekennende Kirche.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 358p.,[16]p. of plates ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Summary:

This volume explores the dramatic struggle between Nazism and the German Confessing Church. The author's research included interviews with more than 60 Germans who were active in the Confessing Church.

Victoria Barnett describes the dramatic struggle between Nazism and the German Confessing Church --- a group of outraged Christians who sought to establish a church untainted by Nazi ideology. For this remarkable book, Barnett interviewed more than sixty Germans who were active in the Confessing Church. She quotes liberally from their frank, unvarnished testimony, using rich historical and archival material to frame their stories. For the Soul of the People vividly portrays a church divided between those who compromised with Nazism and those who eventually tried to overthrow it.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

I: OMENS

1. The Lost Empire

2. The Weimar Years

3. Nationalism, Nazism, and the Churches: The Early Period

II: THE CONFESSING CHURCH IN THE NAZI ERA

4. Convictions and Conflicts

5. Daily Life and Work

6. The Murder of the Institutionalized Patients

7. The Confessing Church and the Jews

8. The War

III: RESISTANCE AND GUILT

9. Reflections on Resistance

10. "The Guilt of Others

IV: "THE INABILITY TO MOURN

11. Postwar Germans and Their Church: Rebirth or Restoration?

12. Political Developments and the East German Church

13. Political Issues and the West German Church

14. Christian Faith and Political Vision in Germany

15. Faith and the Fatherland

Notes

Sources and Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Originally published: 1992.

Bibliography: p339-345. _ Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-534418-9

0-585-24651-3

OCLC:

437173134