The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 » (1st Edition)

Richard Steigmann-Gall is Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University. He has earned fellowships and awards from institutions in Germany, Israel, and Canada, and he has published articles in Central European History, German History, Social History, and Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte.

Steigmann-Gall argues that Nazism was neither unrelated to Christianity nor actively opposed to it.

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Steigmann-Gall, a history professor at Kent State, adds a new chapter to the story by investigating the way that Christianity functioned within the Nazi party itself . Using party pamphlets and writings of key members, he demonstrates that as early as 1920 the group declared that it represented the standpoint of a positive Christianity, which provided the tenets of its anti-Semitic and antimaterialist stance Steigmann-Gall uncovers new information and helpful insights about the period.