A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past

Dense, packed with detail, and exceedingly well researched, Matthew D. Hockenos's fine study is the first English language book to thoroughly address how German Protestants came to terms with their complicity in and complacency toward Nazi rule. By examining key Protestant leaders and theologia...

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Published inShofar Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 197 - 199
Main Author Brown-Fleming, Suzanne
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published West Lafayette Purdue University Press 22.12.2008
Subjects
Bishops
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Catholicism
Christianity
Christians
Church congregations
Churches
Councils
English
English language
German
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
Holocaust
Lutheranism
Nazi era
Nazism
Nonfiction
Protestant churches
Protestant theology
Protestantism
Religion
Theology
England
Indiana
United States > US
Germany
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Summary:Dense, packed with detail, and exceedingly well researched, Matthew D. Hockenos's fine study is the first English language book to thoroughly address how German Protestants came to terms with their complicity in and complacency toward Nazi rule. By examining key Protestant leaders and theologians including Hans Asmussen, Karl Barth, Otto Dibelius, Hermann Diem, Hans Iwald, Hans Meiser, Martin Niemdller, Helmut Thielicke, and Theophil Wurm, Hockenos builds a master narrative of the key 1945-1950 period detailing the sometimes heartening, but more often times disappointing, postwar response of German Protestantism to its own actions and inactions during the Third Reich.
ISSN:0882-8539
1534-5165
1534-5165
DOI:10.1353/sho.0.0089