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"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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780306809316 |
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| Publisher: | Hachette Books |
| Publication date: | 02/04/2000 |
| Edition description: | 2000 ed. |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Sales rank: | 286,289 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Guenter Lewy left his native Germany in 1939 at the age of fifteen, emigrating to Palestine and then to the U.S. He has been on the faculties of Columbia University, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts and is the author of Religion and Revolution, America in Vietnam, The Cause That Failed, and The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the First Edition | xi | |
| Introduction to the 2000 Edition | xvii | |
| Part I | The Course Is Set | |
| 1 | The Encounter with National Socialism Before 1933 | 3 |
| 1. | The Position of German Catholicism in the Weimar Republic | |
| 2. | The Warnings of the Bishops Against Nazism | |
| 3. | The Strategy of Nationalism | |
| 4. | The Policy of the Center Party | |
| 2 | The First One Hundred and Twenty Days of Hitler's Rule | 25 |
| 1. | Hitler Promises Confessional Peace | |
| 2. | The Bishops Withdraw Their Ban | |
| 3. | A Policy of Co-operation Takes Shape | |
| 3 | The Concordat Between Germany and the Holy See of July 20, 1933 | 57 |
| 1. | Prehistory | |
| 2. | Negotiations (April--July 1933) | |
| 3. | Terms | |
| 4. | Ratification | |
| 5. | Significance | |
| 4 | The Great Reconciliation | 94 |
| 1. | The Fulda Bishops' Conference of May 30--June 1, 1933 | |
| 2. | German Catholicism Enters the Third Reich | |
| Part II | Modus Vivendi | |
| 5 | Tribulations of the Catholic Organizations and Press | 115 |
| 1. | The Demise of the Catholic Organizations | |
| 2. | The Gleichschaltung of the Catholic Press | |
| 6 | The Ideological Contest | 151 |
| 1. | The Collision with Neopaganism | |
| 2. | Tactics of Adaptation | |
| 3. | In the Shadow of Murder | |
| 7 | The Church and Hitler's Foreign Policy | 176 |
| 1. | Exit from the League of Nations | |
| 2. | The Saar Plebiscite | |
| 3. | The Occupation of the Demilitarized Rhineland | |
| 4. | The Struggle Against Bolshevism | |
| 5. | The Annexation of Austria | |
| 6. | The Destruction of Czechoslovakia | |
| 8 | 1939-1945: The Church Goes to War | 224 |
| 1. | The Voice of the Episcopate | |
| 2. | The Army Bishop | |
| 3. | Pope Pius XII: Dilemmas of Neutrality | |
| 4. | The Uneasy Truce | |
| 9 | The Conflict Over Nazi Eugenic Policies | 258 |
| 1. | Compulsory Sterilization | |
| 2. | Euthanasia | |
| 10 | The Jewish Question | 268 |
| 1. | The Setting | |
| 2. | Rehearsal for Destruction | |
| 3. | The Final Solution | |
| 4. | The Role of the Papacy | |
| 11 | The Problem of Resistance | 309 |
| 1. | The Bishops Condemn Revolt | |
| 2. | The Force of Public Opinion | |
| 3. | The Church and the German Resistance | |
| Part III | Church and Totalitarianism | |
| 12 | Catholic Political Ideology: The Unity of Theory and Practice | 325 |
| 1. | The Church and Democracy | |
| 2. | The Challenge of Tyranny | |
| 3. | The Moral Dimension of Politics | |
| MAP: German Diocesan Boundaries, 1933 | 342 | |
| Appendix | The German Catholic Episcopate in September 1933 | 343 |
| Notes | 345 | |
| Index | 405 |
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