Kirchenkampf
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Kirchenkampf (English: "church struggle") is a German term pertaining to the situation of the Christian churches in Germany during the Nazi period (1933–1945). Sometimes used ambiguously, the term may refer to one or more of the following different "church struggles": the internal dispute between the Deutsche Christen German Christians and the Bekennende Kirche Confessing Church over control of the Protestant churches; the battle between the Nazi regime and the Protestant church bodies; and the battle between the Nazi regime and the Roman Catholic Church. Many historians maintain that Hitler's goal in the Kirchenkampf entailed not only ideological struggle, but ultimately the eradication of the churches.
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See also
- Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
- Confessing Church
- Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany
- The Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union under Nazi Reign
- German Christians
- Nazism and religion
- The Ninth Day
- Mit brennender Sorge
- Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
- Christmas in Nazi Germany
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