Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich Professor Alec Ryrie
Nazism was not a Christian movement in any meaningful sense German Protestants of the 1920s and 1930s shared many Nazi assumptions and voted disproportionately for the Nazi party, partly in the hope that they might use it for their own ends. One result was the German Christian movement, which tried to create a dejudaised Christianity which the Nazi state would accept with a place in the coming Aryan utopia. Many moderate, sensible Christians in Germany, even in the supposedly antiNazi Confessing Church, collaborated with the regime in other ways. This lecture will explore how so many Christians came to support Nazism, and how some managed to oppose it. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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