HIST 1002 Lecture Notes - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hitler Youth, Confessing Church
22 Nov 2012
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Masses of people: all supporting hitler. Government would be in charge of appoint bishops. Dietrich bonhoeffer: leader, philosopher, gets put in a concentration camp as a political prisoner. Original nazi plan to install a reich bishop. Germany wants to control the catholic schools. A big problem people have with the church in ww2 afterwards. Church of germany and the vatican were too quiet. Pachelli was the german vatican diplomat: became pope later. Church protest some eugenics: biological discrimination, very vocal about sterilization. Nuremberg laws of 1935: legalizes anti-semitism, outlines who is and is not a jew, prohibits marriage with jews and non-jews. Kristallnacht: november 1938, nazi supporters burned synagogues and attacked jewish stores, most germans didn"t support this open violence. What did ordinary" germans think about the nazi discrimination of jewish communities. Nazi foreign policy: revision of versailles. Couldn"t have the power he wanted without rearmament. Want to join with austria: creation of satellite states.
