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Nazi policies towards religion - Coggle Diagram
Nazi policies towards religion
Key dates
1937 - Christmas carols and nativity plays banned in schools
1938 - Priests banned from teaching religious classes
1936 - Camps pressuring children not to attend Church schools set up
1939 - All Church schools banned
1935 - Department for Church Affairs - used to control the Church
700 opposing Protestant priests arrested
Protestant
German Faith movement - Alfred Rosenberg - 5% joined
2/3 of Germany was Protestant
Ludwig Muller - Reich Bishop of Germany
More accepting of Hitler due to anti-semetism
Success?
Some local Nazi leaders took their SA men and beat up and murdered priests, will others sang in the choir. Success varied heavily from place to place.
In the 1939 Census of the Greater German Reich:
1,944,000 were Roman Catholic
42,636,000 were Protestant
308,000 were Jewish
1,208,000 were atheist
2,746,000 were neo-pagan
Catholic
Signing of the Concordat - Pope would not interfere and Hitler would leave the church alone.
Hitler does not follow through with this - Pope releases 'With Burning Anxiety'
German Reich Church