ext_50177 ([identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] fpb 2008-06-04 08:04 am (UTC)

My dear man, the cooperation of the official Lutheran church with the Nazi regime is a fact, and you will find it so described in all the history books. In fact, I made excuses for it - I said that it was not enthusiastic, that it came from a long tradition of being a State church (same reason why a lot of Russian Orthodox were willing to be loyal to the Soviet state), and that a large minority - the "confessing Church" - tried to escape state control, only to be crushed by the most ruthless means and to experience martyrdom. If I had wanted to be nasty, I would have underlined that while the Catholics who became notorious for collaborating included no Church leaders and no first-class writers or thinkers, some leading Lutherans, including the famous theologians Stapel and Gogarten, were decidedly Hitlerite, and so was Heidegger, who claimed to see himself as a Lutheran theologian. I suggest you go see what Karl Barth, who was no Catholic, had to say about his fellow German Protestants.

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