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