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Although Nazi leaders like Frick, Buch, Koch , Rust, and Schemm all freely associated Luther with Nazism, none of [[Christianity]]'s antagonists in the party - Himmler and Ley most notably felt obligated to publicly praise Luther for the sake of expediency . Their private hostility was matched by public silence. Even Rosenberg, who meticulously detached Luther from Lutheran Christianity, made no appearance at the Luther festivities, presumably because he found them too ecclesiastical. Another limit to the interconfessionalism of positive Christianity was the party's church policy.
Although Nazi leaders like Frick, Buch, Koch , Rust, and Schemm all freely associated Luther with Nazism, none of [[Christianity]]'s antagonists in the party - Himmler and Ley most notably felt obligated to publicly praise Luther for the sake of expediency . Their private hostility was matched by public silence. Even Rosenberg, who meticulously detached Luther from Lutheran Christianity, made no appearance at the Luther festivities, presumably because he found them too ecclesiastical. Another limit to the interconfessionalism of positive Christianity was the party's church policy.
Relations with the Catholic Church were never warm, despite several points of ideological contact: Whereas Catholics tended to reject Nazi racial theory, in almost all instances Nazis rejected Catholic internationalism. On the other hand, many Nazis proclaimed an affinity for Protestantism.</blockquote>
Relations with the Catholic Church were never warm, despite several points of ideological contact: Whereas Catholics tended to reject Nazi racial theory, in almost all instances Nazis rejected Catholic internationalism. On the other hand, many Nazis proclaimed an affinity for Protestantism.</blockquote>
In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the 16th-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8UjaPZbJRUgC&printsec=frontcover Probst, C. J. (2012). ''Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany''. United States: Indiana University Press].</ref>
Nevertheless, The Lutheran Rev. Lowell C. Green (d. 2014) argued: <ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lutherans_Against_Hitler/1gs2AAAACAAJ?hl=en Green, L. C. (2007). ''Lutherans Against Hitler: The Untold Story''. United States: Concordia Publishing House].</ref>
"For decades, Lutherans have been accused of a passivistic response to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. In this careful analysis of original documents and the personal reflections of those involved in the church struggle under Hitler, Lowell Green seeks to set history straight. He identifies how Confessional Lutherans faced Nazi threats and survived to uphold the faith of Luther in the country of his birth.
Green addresses both the successful statements against Hitler's regime, such as the Bethel Confession, and the divisive documents, such as the Barmen Declaration. Readers also will discover the stories of courageous church leaders who prevented the Nazis from absorbing Lutheran Churches into the Reich Church."