church

• how did the church feel about supporting the nazi party?

  openly regretted it
• what happened in 1936 to the churches?

  all protestant churches combined to form reich church
• what was the bible replaced with in the reich church?

  Mein kampf
• what version of christianity did the reich church make?

  nationalist socialist
• who spoke out against the Nazis from the protestant church and what happened to him?

  Martin Niemöller sent to a concentration camp
• when did the pope realise the concordat was worthless?

  1937
• what did some protestant churches allow?

  swastikas to be displayed in there
• what were banned and why?

  catholic youth activities so they could attend hitler youth
• what was set up in opposition to the reich church?

  confessional church and they had about 6000 members
• why was the confessional church not a threat?

  didnt influence ordinary christians
• what did the nazi party do to break the concordat?

  restrict catholic churches role in education
• what happened to catholic education?

  by 1939, all catholic education was destroyed and in 1936 all crucifixs were removed from schools
• what happened to catholic newspapers?

  suppressed and the nazi newspaper was pushed on the german public
• how many independent protestant churches were combined to from the reich church?

  28
• what were some of the rules in the reich church?

  • replaced a cross with swastikas
  • only nazis could give sermons
  • suspended non aryan race ministers
• what did the pope eventually say about the nazis?

  they no longer supported the nazi party but many german catholics were too scared to speak out against the nazi party