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Clergy

Clergy are formal leaders within established religions, typically within Christian denominations. During the Holocaust (1933-1945), very few clergymen spoke out against the Nazis. Explore more content related to the variety of Christian clergy members who supported Hitler, stayed quiet about the persecution of Jews, or resisted the Nazis.

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A chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division helps a survivor board a truck that will evacuate him from the Wöbbelin concentration ... [LCID: 77018]
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A chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division helps a survivor
A visitor stands in front of the quotation from Martin Niemöller that is on display in the Permanent Exhibition of the United States ... [LCID: usma0093]
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A visitor reading the Martin Niemöller quotation
Adolf Hitler greets Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller at a Nazi Party Congress. [LCID: 86141]
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Adolf Hitler greets Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller
Open French Bible. The right page contains the table of contents while the left contains hand written notes in black ink. The pages appear tattered and worn along the edges.
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Bible from Le Chambon pastor who saved Jews
A group of men in military uniforms stand next to two priests in Catholic robes. All of them are giving the Nazi salute. There is a small group of people behind them.
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Catholic clergy and Nazi officials give the Nazi salute
During a US Army chaplain inspection of the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, G. [LCID: 06150]
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Chaplains inspect the liberated Buchenwald camp
Father Charles Coughlin, leader of the antisemitic Christian Front, delivers a radio broadcast. [LCID: 90540]
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Charles E. Coughlin
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian who was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. [LCID: 78526]
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian who was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. [LCID: 78526]
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Father Bruno with Jewish children he hid from the Germans. [LCID: 08732]
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Rescuer Father Bruno
Père Jacques de Jésus (born Lucien Bunel) was a Carmelite headmaster of a Catholic boys school in Avon, France. [LCID: 58255]
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Father Jacques
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German Churches and the Nazi State: Photographs
German soldiers execute Piotr Sosnowski, a priest from Tuchola. [LCID: 50840]
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German soldiers execute Piotr Sosnowski, a priest from Tuchola
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Hermann Ludwig Maas
Some Jewish children survived the Holocaust because they were protected by people and institutions of other faiths. [LCID: 58197]
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Hiding under a different religion
In front of his unit, a soldier takes the oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler. [LCID: 08361]
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How did German professionals and civil leaders contribute to the persecution of Jews and other groups?

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