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Article: Propaganda, Perseverance, and Protest: Strategies for Clerical Survival Amid the German Church Struggle.
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- Church History
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- June 1, 2001
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The Protestant historiography of the German Church Struggle has been shaped largely by its attention to two fundamental issues. The first has been the intrachurch struggle dominated by two church-political factions: the Faith Movement of the German Christians and the Confessing Church. German Christians whole-heartedly endorsed the government of Adolf Hitler, campaigned to align the organization, theology, and practice of the twenty-eight German Protestant Land Churches with the racial and authoritarian values of the National Socialist regime and worked to create a centralized Reich church under a powerful Reich bishop.(1) The Confessing Church stood for theological ...
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