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- Title
» . . . Da warst auch du wie einer von ihnen«: Freikirchen und Juden im »Dritten Reich«:Traurige Bilanz und spätes Bekenntnis.
- Authors
Heinz, Daniel
- Abstract
The conduct and attitude of the Free Churches in Germany towards the Jews in the Nazi era can undoubtedly be equated to the passive role of a »bystander«. Mistaken obedience, anti-Semitic prejudices and efforts to save their own church organisations from the grasp of the State, prevented the Free Churches from expressing their solidarity with their racially persecuted neighbours, or even with a Jewish-Christian brother in their own community. The Free Churche's characteristic distance with regards to the State, and their overall higher ethical requirements, mean that their guilt and failure come to light all the more significantly with regard to the »Third Reich«. If and when resistance to the antisemitism and hostility towards the Jews was ever demonstrated, then it came from individual Christians who could not count on any support from their Free Church. Any admission of guilt at the end of the World War proved to be a difficult process.
- Subjects
FREE churches; JEWS in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945; HISTORY
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 1, p175
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2017.30.1.175