He taught trainee pastors and encouraged them to resist Nazism and also tried to get the Confessional Church to condemn the Nuremburg Laws. By 1940 his college was closed and he was banned from preaching. He continued to work underground along with co-operating with the Allies to work with a new government for peace. Later arrested for being an agent and executed in the Flossenburg concentration camp. Martin Niemoller: Former U-boat commander and Nationalist yet split from the Reich Church and created the Confessional Church.
Now we will discuss the legitimacy of the German chaplain during World War II. Wanting to become a German chaplain during this time, in my opinion, would be absurd and completely contradictory to Christianity. Few chaplains that did not uphold the Nazi views were allowed to be chaplains (Bergen, 2004, 176). The German army could basically hand pick their chaplains to meet
Lutheranism was expressed in the recent doctrines, which were the ideology behind the revolts of 1520. The sympathy was shown in documents 1, 3, and 6 where the beliefs were more of Protestants in order to show that the revolts were appropriate. In Doc 1, in the official report, there was writing by Leonhard von Eck saying that the demands were more related religiously of “brotherly love” and that was the conflict. Coming from a noble Chancellor of Bavaria, this is surprising in that it shows support for the class and their reasons for the uprising, despite him being a target. Another example is valid in document 3, in the Articles of Peasants of Memmingen where the Peasant Parliament concur with the Chancellor that the religious aspect was major in this part.
2. Religion (Social Control) Hitler believed that religion was a threat to the Nazis' control over people's mind - so he tried different ways to reduce the power of the church over people. In 1933 Hitler signed the Concordat - he promised not to interfere with the Catholic Church - which was guaranteed freedom to worship and run its own youth organisations and schools. In return the Catholic Church agreed to stay out of politics (this instantly made it harder for it to voice the opinions of the religion nationally.) Within a year, Hitler began to break this agreement and attack the Catholic Church.
Albert Speer – Opinion Speech Albert Speer, architect of the third Reich, minister of Armaments, its undoubted that he was a man of great potential & caused great effect during Hitler’s reign & Germany’s ongoing war effort. Though one question still remains, that is, was he honest at the Nuremburg Trials in 1945? Was Speer really honest, when he said that he knew nothing of the holocaust & Nazi death camps? It was at the age of 26 in 1931, in an address to the students of Berlin University that Speer first saw Hitler. Speer admitted he was carried away by Hitler’s unmatched speaking prowess, unequivocal belief in Nazi ideology & the idea of a restored Germany.
He tried to find a compromise between Wilson and Clemenceau. Germany had been expecting a treaty based on Wilson's 14 points and were not happy with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. However, they had no choice but to sign the document. People supported Hitler because he promised them what they wanted and needed to hear. The Weimar Republic appeared to have no idea how to solve the problems of the Depression.
Hitler used secret police and hard handed tactics to establish his power, however, FDR used the power of patriotism to entice Americans in the war effort. He gave the “Four Freedoms speech” in which FDR shared his vision of what these troops would be fighting for: “We look to a world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression…The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way…The third is freedom from want (need)…The fourth is freedom from fear.” Hitler enacted a new form of warfare called the blitzkrieg, lightning war, which was a fast, concentrated air and land attack that took the enemy’s army by surprise. The Germans also used stuka, a dive-bombing airplane, to try to weaken the enemy before the tanks and troops moved in. FDR used a more traditional type of warfare.
In other words, “It’s better to do evil than to be evil.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian important for his support of and his view of Christianity's role in a changing modern world. He was involved in a plot to overthrow the Furfur, Adolf Hitler. This led to him being put in prison and then executed. His “Letters and Papers from Prison,” published after his death in 1951, is perhaps the most philosophical document of his convictions. Bonhoeffer grew up in the University of Berlin, where his father, Karl Bonhoeffer, was a professor.
Therefore the only viable option was to relent to their demands, and on 6 March 1943 Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels gave orders for the release of seventeen hundred intermarried Jews. Resistance from within the Catholic Church similarly directed vocal opposition and protest towards Nazi policies of euthanasia. The Catholic bishop of Munster, Clemens von Galen publicly denounced euthanasia through a number of sermons in July and August of 1941, and in the process gathered widespread support for his cause. As Galen was widely respected and supported by Germans the Nazi regime could not simply ‘eliminate’ him, as they had others, without causing considerable unrest. So as they had with the Rosenstrasse protests, they sought to appease the public, and Hitler ordered a stop to euthanasia in late
* Why Martin Luther became disillusioned with the Church of Rome * Martin Luther was one of the most influential figures in Christian history. He was a controversial figure in the Reformation movement. In this essay, the intent is to point out the reason as to why Martin Luther was disappointed with the methods and intention of the Roman Church. How he entered into monastery work, how his Catholic upbringing contributed, and his 95 theses on the issue of indulgences. * Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in Roman Catholicism in the small town of Eisleben, Saxony, in modern southeast Germany.