Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In Our Time
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The Catholic Church and the Nazi Party in North Germany
Adolf Hitler had a clear sense of the church's struggle with Bismarck in the 19th century. The Catholic Party was taken off the table as a source of difficulty for Nazis. In North Germany, however, where the Protestant churches were strong, he had a sense that he had to do something. He didn't even know that there were 28 regional churches and one national church. And eventually this morphed into a parallel church structure called the Confessing Church.
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