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Leaders of the empire attempted to maintain neutrality for a time, but the pressure for inclusion only increased. The official religion of the Ottoman Empire during this time was Islam, making joining the war was a topic of controversy in the Islamic state, as Islamic law includes strict guidelines in regards to involvement in wars.
Religion in Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany was an overwhelmingly Christian nation. A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era [ 1 ] after the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia [ 2 ] into Germany, indicates [ 3 ] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as ...
Jean Bernardof Luxembourg was imprisoned from May 1941 to August 1942 in the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. A symbol of Luxembourg Catholic resistance to German occupation, he wrote the book Pfarrerblock 25487, about his experiences in Dachau, and his story was dramatized in the 2004 film The Ninth Day.
Clergy, members of male and female religious orders and lay leaders began to be targeted. Thousands were arrested, often on trumped-up charges of currency smuggling or "immorality". [27] Priests were watched closely and denounced, arrested and sent to concentration camps. [144] In 1940, a clergy barracks was established at Dachau. [145]
Retrieved 27 February 2018. The Deutsche Christen (German Christians) were a group of clergy and laypeople in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s who sought to synthesize National Socialism and Christianity. They aimed to purge Christianity of everything they deemed Jewish and to create a German church based on " blood ".
Revolutions of 1917–1923. Opposition to World War I was widespread during the conflict and included socialists, anarchists, syndicalists and Marxists as well as Christian pacifists, anti-colonial nationalists, feminists, intellectuals, and the working class. The socialist movements had declared before the war their opposition to a war which ...
The Big Four or the Four Nations refer to the four top Allied powers of World War I [ 1 ] and their leaders who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919. The Big Four is also known as the Council of Four. It was composed of Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, and ...
Overview. World War I mobilization, 1 August 1914. The German population responded to the outbreak of war in 1914 with a complex mix of emotions, in a similar way to the populations of emotions in the United Kingdom; notions of universal enthusiasm known as the Spirit of 1914 have been challenged by more recent scholarship. [1]