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Article: "To avoid a new Kulturkampf": the Catholic Workers' Associations and National Socialism in Weimar-era Bavaria.
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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In 1921, the Federation of South German Catholic Workers' Associations (Verband Suddeutscher katholischer Arbeitervereine, or VSkA), headquartered in Munich and dominated by Bavarian associations, published a report concerning the newly formed National Socialist German Workers' Party. After attending a beer-hall meeting in Munich, the author of the article in the federation newspaper, Der Arbeiter (The Workingman), compared the party to the Socialists in terms of "exercising their mouths," criticized party speakers for their anti-Catholic attacks, and declared that National Socialism could not be supported by those of the political center (i.e., Catholics who ...