Bibliograph

Hearts divided, baptism and the Jews in Nazi Germany, a film by Steven D. Martin

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Hearts divided, baptism and the Jews in Nazi Germany, a film by Steven D. Martin

Language

eng

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videorecording

Main title

Hearts divided

Oclc number

911956403

Responsibility statement

a film by Steven D. Martin

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Sub title

baptism and the Jews in Nazi Germany

Summary

In 1933 Berlin Bishop Joachim Hossenfelder proclaimed the popular, pro-Nazi "German Christian" movement the "Storm Troopers of Christ." Hossenfelder led the early phase of a movement that still echoes through the church today, even though the world has tried to forget. This film looks at the people who lived through the movement: Ludwig Mueller, the bishop of the Third Reich, Martin Niemoeller, the first to resist the Nazification of the church, Karl Themel, a pastor who used baptismal certificates to send "Jewish Christians" to the concentration camps, Werner Syltan, a pastor who died at Dachau because of his work on behalf of persons of Jewish descent amd Walter Grundmann, a reknown Biblical scholar and architect of the "Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life."

Target audience

adult

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