Inside the Nazi State - Supporters
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- USHMM. (2016, January 29). The German churches and the Nazi state. Retrieved from https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005206The population of Germany in 1933 was around 60 million. Almost all Germans were Christian, belonging either to the Roman Catholic (ca. 20 million members) or the Protestant (ca. 40 million members) churches. The Jewish community in Germany in 1933 was less than 1% of the total population of the country.
- USHMM. (2016, January 29). German resistance to Hitler. Retrieved from https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005208The government of Adolf Hitler was popular with most Germans. Although the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Security Service (SD) suppressed open criticism of the regime, there was some German opposition to the Nazi state and the regimentation of society that took place through the process of "coordination" (Gleichschaltung)—the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals.
- Gajewski, K. J. (1999). Nazi policy and the Catholic Church. Retrieved from http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/history/nazi-policy-and-the-catholic-church.htmlThough Hitler felt a particular urgency and hatred when dealing with Jews and Communists, he viewed the Catholic Church as a pernicious opponent, a deeply-entrenched threat that must be controlled and eventually uprooted from German life in order to establish his promised Thousand-Year-Reich.
- Littell, F. F. (n.d.). The German churches in the Third Reich. Retrieved from http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CFMQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yadvashem.org%2Fodot_pdf%2FMicrosoft%2520Word%2520-%2520693.pdf&ei=rpD2VOXeIThe established Roman Catholic and Protestant (Evangelisch) churches of Germany, with their tax support and civil service ideology ratings, entered crippled into confrontation with the dynamic ideology and policies of the
German Third Reich. Nazism was a populist (völkisch) movement, potentially genocidal from its beginnings. The church leaders mistook it for a political party.