Does it surprise you that hitler claimed that the nazis were Christian? Why?

As May 1934 drew to a close many of Germany’s most prominent theologians

and pastors met in a small German city called Barmen. The birthplace of Fredrick Engels,

Barmen was actually a suburb of the larger city, Wuppertal, on the Wupper River. The

fact that the one of the fathers of Communism, Engels, was born in Barmen was only

appropriate, because the work that was done by these pastors and theologians constituted

nothing less than a revolution. After three days of meetings, the Pastor’s Emergency

League produced a document that they called the Barmen Declaration.

With the Barmen Declaration a church movement known as the Bekennende

Kirche (Confessing Church) was born. The Confessing Church would become an

opposing force to the National Socialist party and the splinter Nazi movement, the

Deutsche Christens (German Christians). The primary author of the document was the

most respected theologian of the twentieth century and one of the most formidable

academics in German history, Karl Barth. After the document was finally complete,

Barth remarked that his writing had been, “fortified by strong coffee and one or two

Brazilian cigars.”1 As Barth finished his expensive cigars and the smoke cleared from the

room full of theologically conservative Protestant pastors and professors, the

Kirchenkampf (church struggle) officially began. Although it took until May 1934 to

distinguish clear battle lines of the Kirchenkampf, the formations of the struggle began

over a year earlier.

1933 was a pivotal year in German history. This was the year that the German Explanation:

honestly no, people have different views on things and when it comes to religion everyone is different in how indepth they are with it and take out ceartainparts. i think that he thought that what he was doing was right a the time. and no i do not think that justifys for what he did, what he did was horrible but to some degreeei think he thought he was doing the right thing  

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the answer is b. you