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For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler
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For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler Paperback - 1998

by Victoria Barnett

The Confessing Church was one of the rare German organizations that opposed Nazism from the beginning. This moving account, based on interviews with over 60 Germans who were active in the Confessing Church, gives a haunting glimpse of the German experience under Hitler. 20 halftones.


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The Confessing Church was one of the rare German organizations that opposed Nazism from the very beginning, and in For the Soul of the People, Victoria Barnett delves into the story of the Church's resistance to Hitler. For this remarkable story, Barnett interviewed more than sixty Germans whowere active in the Confessing Church, asking them to reflect on their personal experiences under Hitler and how they see themselves, morally and politically, today. She provides a haunting glimpse of the German experience under Hitler, but also gives a provocative look into what it has meant to be aGerman in the twentieth century.

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The Confessing Church was one of the rare German organizations that opposed Nazism from the very beginning, and in For the Soul of the People, Victoria Barnett delves into the story of the Church's resistance to Hitler. For this remarkable story, Barnett interviewed more than sixty Germans who were active in the Confessing Church, asking them to reflect on their personal experiences under Hitler and how they see themselves, morally and politically, today. She provides a haunting glimpse of the German experience under Hitler, but also gives a provocative look into what it has meant to be a German in the twentieth century.

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  • Title For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler
  • Author Victoria Barnett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 1998-04-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195121186 / 019512118X
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.13 x 6.15 x 1.1 in (23.19 x 15.62 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 1300
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany - Church history - 1933-1945, Bekennende Kirche
  • Dewey Decimal Code 280.409

About the author


Victoria Barnett is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, New York, and a professional writer whose articles have appeared in Christianity and Crisis, The Christian Century, The Witness, and the news bulletins of Religious News Service. She lived in Germany for 13 years and now lives in Washington, D.C.
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