Description |
xvi, 294 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Note |
"The Holy Reich is a brilliant and provocative work that will recast the whole debate on Christianity and Nazism. We have come to realize that Christianity embraced Nazism more than we used to believe. Now, in a work of deep revisionist import, Richard Steigmann-Gall shows us that the embrace was more than reciprocated."--Helmut Walser Smith. |
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"There has been a huge amount of research on the attitude of the Christian Churches to the Nazis and their policies, but astonishingly until now there has been no thorough study of the Nazis' own religious beliefs. Richard Steigmann-Gall has now provided it. He has trawled through a lot of very turgid literature to show that active Nazis from the leadership down to the lower levels of the party were bitterly opposed to the Catholic Church, but had a much more ambivalent attitude to Protestantism and to Christianity in a wider sense... Far from being uniformly anti-Christian, Nazism contained a wide variety of religious beliefs, and Steigmann-Gall has performed a valuable service in providing a meticulously documented account of them in all their bizarre variety."--Richard J. Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge. |
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Paperback edition originally published: 2004. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Subject |
National socialism and religion.
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German-Christian movement -- History.
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ISBN |
0521603528 (pbk.) |
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9780521603522 (pbk.) |
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