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The Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, among the most aggressive anti-Church Nazis, wrote that there was "an insoluble opposition between the Christian and a heroic-German world view". [40] Goebbels saw an "insoluble opposition" between the Christian and Nazi world views. [40]
Alfred Rosenberg – An early Party member and Nazi philosopher, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Völkischer Beobachter from 1923 to 1938, head of the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs, Reichsleiter, head of Amt Rosenberg and Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements. Many on the lists below were of Jewish and Polish origin, although Soviet POWs , Jehovah's Witnesses , Serbs , Catholics , Roma and dissidents were also murdered.
On 22 March 1942, the German bishops issued a pastoral letter entitled "The Struggle against Christianity and the Church". [29] The letter defended human rights and the rule of law, accusing the Nazis of "unjust oppression and hated struggle against Christianity and the Church" despite Catholic loyalty and military service. [30]
This is a list of notable figures who were active within the party and did something significant within it that is of historical note or who were members of the Nazi Party according to multiple publications. For a list of the main leaders and most important party figures see: List of Nazi Party leaders and officials. This list has been divided ...
A Nazi mob ransacked Cardinal Innitzer's residence, after he had denounced Nazi persecution of the Church. [84] L'Osservatore Romano reported on 15 October that Hitler Youth and the SA had gathered at St. Stephen's Cathedral during a service for Catholic Youth and started "counter-shouts and whistlings: 'Down with Innitzer! Our faith is Germany'".
In the Nazi police state, the ability of the church and its members to oppose Nazi policy was severely restricted. [39] In 1935, when Protestant pastors read a protest statement from the pulpits of Confessing churches, the Nazi authorities briefly arrested over 700 pastors and the Gestapo confiscated copies of Pius XI 's 1937 anti-Nazi papal ...
In his post-war memoirs, under the entry for August 6, 1938, titled 'Church (Question) – Mu(nich)', Gerhard Engel wrote: “He said he was still a member of the Catholic Church and would remain so.” [97] Engel later noted the following under the entry for January 20, 1940, titled 'Relationship to the Church': “‘F. spoke at length again ...