Betrayal : German Churches and the Holocaust

by Ericksen, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9780800629311
• ISBN10: 0800629310
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

In this cooperative venture with the U.S. Holocaust Museum, leading scholars in the field place the Nazi era in full historical perspective. This book is a broad overview of the Protestant and Catholic responses, including the institutional churches, the theological faculties, and theologians, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Joseph Lortz. Included are assessments of the German Christian movement, the Confessing Church, the German Catholic church, the Vatican, and the free churches. Various responses -- villians, heroes, equivocators -- are highlighted.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
1 Introduction	1	(21)
Robert P. Ericksen
Susannah Heschel
2 Assessing the Heritage: German Protestant Theologians, Nazis, and the "Jewish Question"	22	(18)
Robert P. Ericksen
3 Storm Troopers of Christ: The German Christian Movement and the Ecclesiastical Final Solution	40	(28)
Doris L. Bergen
4 When Jesus Was an Aryan: The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda	68	(22)
Susannah Heschel
5 The Confessing Church and Antisemitism: Protestant Identity, German Nationhood, and the Exclusion of Jews	90	(20)
Shelley Baranowski
6 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hitler's Persecution of the Jews	110	(19)
Kenneth C. Barnes
7 Pius XII, the Jews, and the German Catholic Church	129	(20)
Guenter Lewy
8 Joseph Lortz and a Catholic Accommodation with National Socialism	149	(20)
Michael B. Lukens
9 Post-Holocaust Theology: German Theological Responses since 1945	169	(20)
Micha Brumlik
Notes	189	(31)
Index	220	(4)
Contributors	224