Reinventing Protestant Germany by Brandon Bloch
Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and militarists, Protestant leaders had largely backed the Nazi regime. Yet after 1945, they reinvented themselves as champions of constitutional democracy and human rightswhile also seeking to whitewash the Churchs past.-
German Social Democracy, 19051917
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Slave Patrols
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Empire and Underworld
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Faces of Perfect Ebony
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The Invention of the Restaurant
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Fighting for the Soul of Germany
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Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630–1822
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Confluence
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Disciplining the Empire
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Progress and Pessimism
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France in the Enlightenment
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Salvation at Stake
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The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America
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Norman Institutions
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Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
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The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies
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The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
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The Franco-Russian Alliance, 1890-1894
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The Making of the Monroe Doctrine
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An Abridgement of the Indian Affairs
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Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320
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Shallow Blue Empire
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Oil Empire
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A Business of State
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To Exercise Our Talents
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Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
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Revolutionary Commerce
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Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought
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Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 18601914
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The Influence of the Commons on Early Legislation
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Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England
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The Discovery of Ottoman Greece
Brandon Bloch’s carefully argued book illuminates the central role of Protestant pastors and theologians in twentieth-century German politics, from fervent nationalists to apologists for dictatorship, from central figures in the post-1945 peace movement to defenders of democracyThis volume reveals like no other the contradictions and continuities that defined these intellectuals so central to Germany’s turbulent modern history. -- Peter C. Caldwell, author of Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949–1989
How did the German churches reconstitute themselves after the Third Reich, given the often-complicit role they played in the Holocaust? In this superb, detailed examination of the postwar years, Brandon Bloch presents the ambivalence of Protestants toward denazification, democracy, women’s rights, and their own ethical failures under Nazism. -- Susannah Heschel, author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
Brandon Bloch offers compelling new insights into the ideological transformation of twentieth-century Protestantism, a process as essential to the establishment of West German democracy as it was complex and contradictory. By tracing Protestants' distinctive regard for the state, postwar denial of support for Nazism, and internal dissension, Bloch expertly elucidates the relationship of Christianity to nationalism in a country where their entanglement facilitated genocide. -- Maria D. Mitchell, author of The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany
An astonishing story, deeply researched and lucidly argued. Brandon Bloch reveals how a generation of German Protestant pastors and lay intellectuals, steeped in a tradition of illiberal nationalism and unwilling to confront their Church’s complicity with Nazism, nevertheless refashioned themselves as champions of West German democracy after the war. Masterfully reconstructing the legal, ideological, and moral debates that nurtured this transformation, he shows that Protestant contributions have left a complicated legacy for German society today. -- Paul Hanebrink, author of A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
How did the German churches reconstitute themselves after the Third Reich, given the often-complicit role they played in the Holocaust? In this superb, detailed examination of the postwar years, Brandon Bloch presents the ambivalence of Protestants toward denazification, democracy, women’s rights, and their own ethical failures under Nazism. -- Susannah Heschel, author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
Brandon Bloch offers compelling new insights into the ideological transformation of twentieth-century Protestantism, a process as essential to the establishment of West German democracy as it was complex and contradictory. By tracing Protestants' distinctive regard for the state, postwar denial of support for Nazism, and internal dissension, Bloch expertly elucidates the relationship of Christianity to nationalism in a country where their entanglement facilitated genocide. -- Maria D. Mitchell, author of The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany
An astonishing story, deeply researched and lucidly argued. Brandon Bloch reveals how a generation of German Protestant pastors and lay intellectuals, steeped in a tradition of illiberal nationalism and unwilling to confront their Church’s complicity with Nazism, nevertheless refashioned themselves as champions of West German democracy after the war. Masterfully reconstructing the legal, ideological, and moral debates that nurtured this transformation, he shows that Protestant contributions have left a complicated legacy for German society today. -- Paul Hanebrink, author of A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Brandon Bloch is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674295438 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674295439 |
| Title | Reinventing Protestant Germany |
| Author | Brandon Bloch |
| Series | Harvard Historical Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2025-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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