The Catholic Church And Nazi Germany”The subject matter of this book is controversial,” Guenter Lewy states plainly in his preface. To show the German Catholic Church’s congeniality with some of the goals of National Socialism and its gradual entrapment in Nazi policies and programs, Lewy describes the episcopate’s support of Hitler’s expansionist policies and its failures to speak out on the persecution of the Jews. To this tragic history Lewy brings new focus and research, illuminating one of the darkest corners of our century with scholarship and intellectual honesty in a riveting, and often painful, narrative. |
Contents
The Fulda Bishops Conference | 13 |
The First One Hundred and Twenty Days | 25 |
The Bishops Withdraw Their | 36 |
The Concordat Between Germany | 57 |
Negotiations AprilJuly 1933 | 63 |
of May 30June 1 1933 | 94 |
German Catholicism Enters the Third Reich | 100 |
Tribulations of the Catholic Organizations | 115 |
The Church and Hitlers Foreign Policy | 176 |
Significance | 214 |
Dilemmas of Neutrality | 242 |
The Uneasy Truce | 251 |
The Conflict Over Nazi Eugenic Policies | 258 |
The Jewish Question | 267 |
The Problem of Resistance | 309 |
The Unity | 325 |
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