Catholicism and the roots of Nazism : religious identity and national socialism / Derek Hastings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hastings, Derek (Derek Keith)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Germany--History--20th century.

Catholic Church.

National socialism--Religious aspects.

National socialism.

National socialism and religion.

Christianity and politics--Germany--History--20th century.

Christianity and politics.

Germany--History--1918-1933.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 290 p. ) ill.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hastings here illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of early Nazi history, going back to the years after World War I to reveal its close early ties with Catholicism.

Derek Hastings here illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of early Nazi history, going back to the years after World War I--when National Socialism first emerged--to reveal its close early ties with Catholicism. Although an antagonistic relationship between the Catholic Church and Hitler's regime developed later during the Third Reich, the early Nazi movement was born in Munich, a city whose population was overwhelmingly Catholic. Focusing on Munich and the surrounding area, Hastings shows how Catholics played a central and hitherto overlooked role in the Nazi movement before the 1923 Beerhall Putsch. He examines the activism of individual Catholic writers, university students, and priests and the striking Catholic-oriented appeals and imagery formulated by the movement. He then discusses why the Nazis embarked on a different path following the party's reconstitution in early 1925, ultimately taking on an increasingly anti-Catholic and anti-Christian identity.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. Ultramontanism and Its Discontents: The "Peculiarities" of Munich's Prewar Catholic Tradition; 2. The Path Toward Positive Christianity: Religious Identity and the Earliest Stages of the Nazi Movement, 1919-20; 3. Embodying Positive Christianity in Catholic Munich: The Ideal of Religious Catholicism and Early Nazi Growth, 1920-22; 4. A "Catholic-Oriented Movement": The Zenith of Catholic-Nazi Activism, 1922-23; 5. The Beerhall Putsch and the Transformation of the Nazi Movement After 1923; Conclusion

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-283-03990-7

9786613039903

0-19-974141-7

OCLC:

923708330