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1.	The Confessing Church: Excerpt from the Declaration of the Second Confessing Synod of the German Protestant Church in Berlin-Dahlem (October 20, 1934) The Nazi regime’s totalitarian claim to power also included the ecclesiastical-religious sphere. In 1933, Hitler promised to preserve the rights and integrity of the Christian churches, but his real....
2.	"With Deep Anxiety" ["Mit brennender Sorge"]: Papal Encyclical on the Situation of the Catholic Church in the German Reich (March 14, 1937) For Hitler, the Reich Concordat was a short-term means to an end, an agreement that could....
3.	Excerpt from Bishop von Galen’s Sermon (August 3, 1941) and Government Correspondence Regarding the Sermon and the Charges Raised against Galen as a Result (August 12-13, 1941) After the publication of the papal encyclical in March 1937, Catholic resistance was completely....
4.	Heinrich Himmler on Christianity and Religion (June 9, 1942) Although the Hitler regime largely limited itself to the subjugation and suppression of the Christian churches and postponed a “final solution of the church question” to the end of the war, there....
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