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Voting Activity 6.5: Did the churches oppose the Nazis?

Voting Activity 6.5: Did the churches oppose the Nazis?. Martin Niem ö ller (Pastor Niem ö ller). First World War hero Most prominent critic of Nazis Disliked Reich Church Formed Confessional Church Put into concentration camp. Paul Schneider. Small-town pastor

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Voting Activity 6.5: Did the churches oppose the Nazis?

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  1. Voting Activity 6.5:Did the churches oppose the Nazis?

  2. Martin Niemöller (Pastor Niemöller) • First World War hero • Most prominent critic of Nazis • Disliked Reich Church • Formed Confessional Church • Put into concentration camp

  3. Paul Schneider • Small-town pastor • Arrested 1934 – ignored warnings to stop criticising Nazis • Buchenwald concentration camp, 1937 • Tortured viciously but never caved in • Sent to concentration camp, 1938 • Hitler ordered his death, but he survived

  4. Cardinal Galen • Publicly attacked Nazi policies, 1934 • Revealed euthanasia programme, 1941 • Led campaign and got it stopped • Nazis left Galen alone so as not to make him a martyr • Goebbels believed that attacking Galen would make large sections of Germany hostile

  5. Josef Fath • Catholic priest in small village of Leidersbach • Ignored bans on church feast days • Undermined local Nazi schoolteacher and Hitler Youth leaders • Agitated over issue of crucifixes in schools

  6. Jehovah’s Witnesses • Lived according to own beliefs, not government orders • Most Jehovah’s Witnesses ended up in camps and one-third died

  7. Which individual or group posed the biggest problem for the Nazis? • Niemöller • Schneider • Galen • Fath • Jehovah’s Witnesses

  8. Which individual or group do you admire the most? • Niemöller • Schneider • Galen • Fath • Jehovah’s Witnesses

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