Christian internationalism and German belonging : the Salvation Army from imperial Germany to Nazism / Rebecca Carter-Chand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter-Chand, Rebecca, Author.

Series:

George L. Mosse series in the history of European culture, sexuality, and ideas http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/bba15c0c-ddfe-8d76-cc42-09a03af986b2

George L. Mosse series in the history of European culture, sexuality, and ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salvation Army--Germany--History.

Salvation Army.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [2025]

Summary:

Ever since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, it has navigated overlapping national and international identities. After existing on the margins of the German religious landscape while solidifying its role as a social service provider, the Salvation Army proactively shaped its public profile during the Nazi rise to power. Accepted into the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft (ethnonational community) and made an auxiliary member of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV), the organization continued limited operations throughout the Nazi period before returning to its international affiliations in the immediate postwar period, thereby bypassing denazification and rehabilitating its reputation. In this groundbreaking reevaluation, Rebecca Carter-Chand argues that the Salvation Army was able to emphasize different aspects of its identity to bolster and repair its reputation as needed in varied political contexts, highlighting the variability of Nazi practices of inclusion and exclusion. In that way, the organization was similar to other Christian groups in Germany. Counter to common hypotheses that minority religious groups are more likely to show empathy to other minorities, dynamics within Nazi Germany reveal that many religious minorities sought acceptance from the state in an effort to secure self-preservation.

Contents:

Transplantation into Imperial Germany

World War I and the limits of internationalism

Goodness and corruption in Weimar imagination

Negotiating religious charity from Weimar to Nazism

Finding belonging in the Volksgemeinschaft

At war again

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix A. Select list of artistic works from Germany portraying the Salvation Army

Appendix B. Select list of artistic works outside Germany. Portraying the Salvation Army

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-260) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Carter-Chand, Rebecca. Christian internationalism and German belonging.

ISBN:

9780299353902

0299353907

OCLC:

1504277101