Nazi persecution of the church
As the debate continues over the alleged “silence” of Pius XII during the Nazi persecution of the Jews, some scholars are drawing attention to the terrible fate of the Catholic Church at the hands of Hitler’s regime On the night of January 30, 1933, rank after rank of SA storm troopers and black-uniformed SS detachments [...]
GERMAN CHURCHES AND THE NAZI STATE
A religious census taken in 1925 revealed that of an overall German population of 65 million, 40 million belonged to the main Protestant (Evangelical Lutheran) church, 21 million to the Roman Catholic church, and 620,000 to various smaller, mostly Protestant denominations. The term “Church Struggle” refers to the strained relationship between church and state in [...]
