Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-345) and index.
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The lost empire -- The Weimar years -- Nationalism, Nazism, and the churches : the early period -- Convictions and conflicts -- Daily life and work -- The murder of the institutionalized patients -- The confessing church and the Jews -- The war -- Reflections on resistance -- "The guilt of others" -- Postwar Germans and their church : rebirth or restoration? -- Political developments and the East German church -- Political issues and the West German church -- Christian faith and political vision in Germany -- Faith and the Fatherland.