Confessing Church, Conservative Elites, and the Nazi State
| Author: | Baranowski, Shelley | |
| Year: | 1986 | |
| Pages: | 200 | |
| ISBN: | 0-88946-816-8 978-0-88946-816-0 | |
| Price: | $159.95 | |
Examines the close relationship between aristocratic Prussian landowners and the leadership of the Confessing Church and shows the limits of German conservative-elite opposition to Nazism. Contends that the opposition of the Confessing Church to the Nazi regime was highly ambiguous and argues that the so-called church struggle was but a special case of class struggle.
Reviews
"Baranowski has hammered the last nail into the coffin of church struggle historiography as hagiographical event-history." - Currents in Theology and Mission
". . . refutes the `myth of resistance' that has been building in post-war Germany." - Religious Studies Review
"This is yet another piece of the jigsaw, and a critical one. . . . an important book, based on careful evidence." - European History Quarterly
". . . welcome addition . . . reveals, with clarity and conviction, the limits of the German conservative elite opposition . . . Baranowski is right in arguing that our politics of anti-communism have influenced the writing of the history of communist res
". . . refutes the `myth of resistance' that has been building in post-war Germany." - Religious Studies Review
"This is yet another piece of the jigsaw, and a critical one. . . . an important book, based on careful evidence." - European History Quarterly
". . . welcome addition . . . reveals, with clarity and conviction, the limits of the German conservative elite opposition . . . Baranowski is right in arguing that our politics of anti-communism have influenced the writing of the history of communist res