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Article: Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich.
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- Theological Studies
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- September 1, 1997
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By Doris L. Bergen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1996. Pp. xiii + 341. $39.96; $16.96.
Although historians have given a great deal of attention to the role of the Christian churches in the Third Reich, few studies have investigated the German Christian Faith movement, and Bergen is the first English-speaking scholar seriously to undertake a study of it.
The sudden collapse of the Empire in 1918 was a staggering psychological blow to Protestant church leaders. The end of the centuries-old alliance between throne and altar, and the removal of the secular princes who had served as heads of the church, left many Protestants with a fear that ...