German Christians

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This paper focuses on the German Christian Church and movement. More specifically, the paper focuses on the Protestant Church (people's church) after WWI and through WWII and the Nazi movement. The attempts to illustrate that the Protestant German Christian Church's ideology was not a product of Nazi orders or a response to Neo-Pagan influences, but in fact, was derivative of the post-WWI culture of Germany.

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"Twisted Cross: the German Christian Movement in the Third Reich goes on to explain that many members of the movement were simply attempting to make Christianity acceptable to Nationalist socialist society. The author argues that the German Christian Movement was indeed the result of post war influences of the larger German culture. The author asserts that there were several cultural events that led to the emergence of the German Christians. One of the major events occurred in the 1920's when many of the Protestant association led efforts to promote ethnicity and German culture. The book asserts that these events were instrumental in the creation of the German Christian Movement that eventually took prominence in Germany."

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