TY - BOOK AU - Sebastian Dregger PY - 2008 CY - München, Germany PB - GRIN Verlag SN - 9783640115143 TI - Conflicts, compromises and mutual self-interest - how the Nazis and the Catholic and Protestant churches dealt with each other during the Third Reich DO - 10.3239/9783640115143 UR - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/112682 N2 - Free from any apologetic or debunking fuss, the essay depicts the complex relationship between the Nazi state and the Catholic and Protestant Churches during the Third Reich. Focussing on three major areas of conflict between the Churches and the Nazis(sychronization ('Gleichschaltung'), the Nazis' anti-church policies, the churches and euthanasia) the essay's argument is that a pragmatic approach by both Churches and the Nazis based on the preservation of mutual self-interest is the key to understand their dealing with each other in each individual case of conflict. In a second part, the essays seeks to explain why both protagonists preferred a pragmatic instead of a more radical and uncompromising approach to each other, stating that three factors are accountable for this: First, mutually shared political views based on anti-liberalism and anti-Marxism; second, a tremendous mispercerption of the regime's nature by both churches; third, the limits of anti-church policies among a population still being deeply Christianized. KW - Conflicts, Nazis, Catholic, Protestant, Third, Reich, Nazi, Dictatorship, Nationalsozialismus, Reichskirche, Evangelische Kirche, Katholische Kirche, Kirche im Dritten Reich, Kirchen im Dritten Reich, Drittes Reich, Hitler, Bormann, Goebbels, Niemöller, Euthanasie, Graf von Galen, Rosenberg, Antisemtismus, Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Third Reich, National Socialism, Kirche, Dritten Reich, kirche, drittes reich, dritten reich, Papst, Enzyklika, encyclical, mit brennender sorge, with burning anxiety LA - English ER -