The Holy Reich
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The Holy Reich

Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945

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The Holy Reich

Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945

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Analyzing 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. He demonstrates that many participants in the Nazi movement believed that the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. A program usually regarded as secular in inspiration - the creation of a racialist 'people's community' embracing antisemitism, antiliberalism and anti-Marxism - was, for these Nazis, conceived in explicitly Christian terms. His examination centers on the concept of 'positive Christianity, ' a religion espoused by many members of the party leadership. He also explores the struggle the 'positive Christians' waged with the party's paganists - those who rejected Christianity in toto as foreign and corrupting - and demonstrates that this was not just a conflict over religion, but over the very meaning of Nazi ideology itself.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE HOLY REICH
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. ABBREVIATIONS
  9. NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND CITATIONS
  10. INTRODUCTION
  11. 1 POSITIVE CHRISTIANITY: The Doctrine of the Time of Struggle
  12. 2 ABOVE THE CONFESSIONS: Bridging the Religious Divide
  13. 3 BLOOD AND SOIL: The Paganist Ambivalence
  14. 4 NATIONAL RENEWAL: Religion and the New Germany
  15. 5 COMPLETING THEREFORMATION: The Protestant Reich Church
  16. 6 PUBLIC NEED BEFOREPRIVATE GREED: Building the People's Community
  17. 7 GOTTGLÄUBIG: Assent of the anti-Christians?
  18. 8 THE HOLY REICH: Conclusion
  19. PRIMARY SOURCES
  20. SECONDARY SOURCES
  21. INDEX