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The vast majority of Germans belonged to a Christian church during the Nazi era. In 1933 there were 40 million Protestants, 20 million Catholics, and small numbers of people adhering to other Christian traditions. The German Evangelical Church (the largest Protestant church) and the Roman Catholic church were pillars of German society and played an important role in shaping people’s attitudes and actions vis-à-vis National Socialism, including anti-communism, nationalism, traditional loyalty to governing authorities (particularly among Protestants), and the convergence of Nazi antisemitism with widespread and deep-seated anti-Jewish prejudice.
Within the German Evangelical Church the pro-Nazi “German Christian” (Deutsche Christen) movement emerged in the early 1930s. It attempted to fuse Christianity and National Socialism and promoted a “racially-pure” church by attacking Jewish influences on Christianity. This attempt to nazify the primary Protestant church provoked a backlash, leading to the formation of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) in 1934. Both the Confessing and the “German Christian” movements remained part of the German Evangelical Church. The Confessing Church movement condemned Nazified theology and the attempt to nationalize the church, but it limited its protest to maintaining the theological integrity and autonomy of the Protestant churches—not protesting the legitimacy of the Nazi state itself. Although there were individual resisters, many mainstream Protestant and Catholic church leaders made numerous compromises with Nazi authorities and supported many of the Nazi measures throughout the period.
A range of reactions can be observed among Christian churches and institutions across Europe and North America during the Nazi period. As in Germany, the attitudes and actions of Christians were shaped not only by religious belief but by national politics, legacies of Jewish-Christian relations, World War II, and the experiences under Nazi occupation in some countries. Some Christian individuals, as well as Christian networks and religious institutions, aided and rescued Jews but the majority did not.
In the wake of the Holocaust, a long process began in which Christian churches acknowledged their failure to withstand National Socialism and their role in promoting antisemitism. A large body of literature now exists on inter-faith issues and post-Holocaust theology and ethics. The history of Christianity during the Holocaust has also informed and interacted with the growing field of study on religion and mass violence in a global context.
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