The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. In contrast, Steigmann-Gall demonstrates that many in the Nazi movement believed the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. He also explores the struggle the "positive Christians" waged with the party's paganists and demonstrates that this was not just a conflict over religion, but over the very meaning of Nazi ideology itself. Richard Steigmann-Gall is assistant professor of history at Kent Sate University. He earned his BA and MA at the University of Michigan, and PhD at the University of Toronto. He has earned fellowships and awards from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism in Israel, and the Max-Planck Institut fur Geschichte in Göttingen. His research interests include modern Germany, Fascism, and religion and society in Europe, and he has published articles in Central European History, German History, Social History, and Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Positive Christianity The Doctrine of the Time of Struggle | 15 |
Above the Confessions Bridging the Religious Divide | 53 |
Blood and Soil The Paganist Ambivalence | 88 |
National Renewal Religion and the New Germany | 116 |
Completing the Reformation The Protestant Reich Church | 157 |
Public Need before Private Greed Building the Peoples Community | 192 |
Gottglaubig Assent of the antiChristians? | 220 |
The Holy Reich Conclusion | 263 |
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