Author:
Chandler, Andrew, author.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Descriptionx, 422 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Part I. An Inhabited Landscape -- Observing British Christianity after the Great War -- The public and private worlds of British Christians -- Part II. The German National Revolution, 1933-1934 -- Tumult in 1933 -- Escalation and controversy: 1933-1934 -- The deepening crisis: 1933-1934 -- Part III. Resisting a Rapprochement, 1935-1937 -- Uneasy calm: 1935 -- A dubious stability: 1936 -- A papal encyclical, a world conference and an arrest -- Part IV. Crisis, 1938-1939 -- The destruction of peace: 1938 -- The coming of war: 1938-1939 -- Part V. The Onslaught, 1939-1943 -- A righteous war: 1939-1941 -- New alliances: 1941-1943 -- Part VI. A Gathering Judgement, 1944-1949 -- Unconditional realities: 1943 -- Peace aims and retribution: 1944-1945 -- Justice in 1945 and after -- Endings and Legacies.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-410) and index.
Note:"In this ground-breaking study, Andrew Chandler examines the complex relationship between religions and politics, church and state, and national and international politics during the period that witnessed the rise and fall of the Third Reich. He explores these dilemmas within the context of the tumultuous years when many British Christian confronted and challenged the Nazi regime. Chandler shows how many of the key moral questions which came to define the modern world now crystallized: What view should the Christian take of the political state? How should the claims of dictators and democrats be judged? How should the Church protest against injustice -- and what can be done about it? How should peace be preserved and when should war be declared? How should a just war be justly fought? It is a history which places the Third Reich firmly in an international perspective, revealing the moral arguments and debates that Nazism provoked across the democracies. It is also an important study of the many ways in which men and women outside Germany intervened, protested, and campaigned against the Hitler regime and sought to support its critics and its victims."-- Provided by publisher.
