1. THE NAZIS AND RELIGION

2. What did Nazism and Christianity agree on? What did they disagree on?
THE BIG QUESTIONS
What did Nazism and Christianity agree on?
What did they disagree on?
Did they cooperate?

3. THE SITUATION
Most Germans were Christians – 1/3 Catholics in the south - 2/3 Protestants in the North.
Hitler needed to work with the Churches – he was not strong enough to overthrow them
Christianity was not banned.
However many Christians who opposed the Nazis were persecuted

4. IS NAZISM A FORM OF RELIGION?
Strange question but think about it?

5. Devoting yourself to a greater cause A set of rules to be followed
THE ANSWER
Devoting yourself to a greater cause
A set of rules to be followed
A leader who needs to be worshipped
Special rituals and dress

9. WHAT DID THEY AGREE ON Anti communism Some sympathy with anti semitism
Traditional values for women – large families
Anti divorce and contraception
Both wanted to survive

10. WHAT DID THEY DISAGREE ON?
Love our enemies and do good to those that hate you”
Respect for human life
Church is international and inclusive – Nazism is national and exclusive
Racism
Totalitarianism

16. THE PROTESTANT CHURCH
Reich Church under Bishop Muller – Christianity and Nazis are in agreement
Services end with Heil Hitler. Jewish Amen was banned.
But Pastor Nielmoller ended up in Dachau
Dietrich Bonhoeffer hanged in 1945 for his part in Operation Valkerie

18. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Hitler signed the Concordat with Pius XI – Freedom of worship and Church schools. In return they did not criticise the Nazis and priests swore an oath of loyalty to the Nazis.
Bishop Galen attacks the Nazis spoke out about T4 the Gestapo and racism. Only arrested in 1944
Mit Brenender Sorge – Papal Encyclical attacks the Nazis

19. Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

21. MIT BRENENDER SORGE
Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community—however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things—whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds...

22. What proportion of Germans were Catholics?
What part of Germany was mainly Protestant?
What was the name of Hitler’s agreement with the Pope?
What was the name and number of the pope who wrote Mit brennender Sorge?
What does Mit brennender Sorge translate as?-
Who ran the Reich church?+
Who was the bishop of Munster who defied Hitler?
What is the name of the Nazi policy to kill the handicapped?
What did Martin Niemoller do during WW1?
What is God is with us mean in German. Exact spelling only.

26. 1. A -third
2. The North
3. The Concordat
4. Pius XI
With burning concern
Bishop Muller
Bishop Galen T4
A U boat commander
Gott mit uns