yr11_nazis_churches

__//What they did//__
The Catholic Church, Christianity:The nazi party aparently believes in "positive Christianity" they spoke of Freedom for all rellions. Yet they were doing their best to damage the Christian Faith. The Christians didn't want conflict, but that's all the Nazis were asking for, damaging and unrespectig their religion believes.

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Hitler wanted to destroy the influence of Christianity and Protestants in Germany. As much as he was determined to undermine them he couldn’t do it because Christianity was the biggest religion. Hitler signed a Concordat, in other words, agreement with the pope. It said that the Nazis would not interfere in the Catholic Church. In return, the pope ordered bishops to take an oath of loyalty to Hitle. Hitler did this because he wanted to be the most powerful and he wanted the Nazis to be successfull. The Catholic church was just opening everyones eyes, but Hitler didn't accept it.

__The Protestant Churches:__
Germany's protestants belonged to 28 churches groups. In 1933, under the pressur the Nazis were giving they agreed to unite to form a "Reich Church". They elected a nazi as thei "Reich Bishop" and had to expelle "non-Aryan" pastors.

__Reich Church:__
The Reich church was the Nazi German church that Hitler created, which were against the Catholics and the Protestants. The head of the Reich church was Bishop Müller, he supported Hitler a lot. There was a protestant opponent to the Reich church who was Martin Niemoller. Hitler didn't want the Catholic church to exist anymore, he wanted to desroy them but he knew it was going to be a challenge as Christians were the biggest religious group. The Reich Church's principals went against christianity

__German Faith Movements:__
Hitler thought that the Christian religion was too week. The rules weren’t strict enough and he wasn’t convinced, even though he was Christian himself. Hitler decided to make a new religion, German Faith Movement. People thought it was more German and unique. Hitler wanted to replace God and replace the Bible with the Mein Kampf.

//__Why they did it...__//
Nazism is all about conflict, fight, and unrespectness. Christianity is about forgiveness and brotherhood. They were two opposit things, Hitler was threatened, because Germans couldn't be Nazi and Christian they had to be one of them, Hitler wanted everyone to be on his side. He felt threatened and menaced. He wanted people to be only nazis, that's why he attacked the christians so much, he couldn't stand having someone that had the same strength as him.

//__Evidence of Success:__//
Hitler attracted more Audiance and public, having his propper religion. This religion attracted the Nazis, he used this religion to say the message he wanted to get through but that he couldn't say in speeches in front of everyone. He was so intelligent that he even got people through religion, he managed to be even more popular than he was before, Germans considered him like their last hope. The Nazis religion had success because people could get married unlike Christians.

//__Evidence of Failure:__//
This maybe made him more popular, but it this success hasn't lasted for long. The Nazis didn't respect anything including the agreement they made with the pope which was fairly reasonable. Hitler did not respect any of their ideas or believes. He wanted to detroy them and make his religion bigger and more German. Affortunetly they didn't manage to be too big, the Nazi religion only lasted 2 years.