Reassessing the Holy Reich: leading Nazis\u27 views on confession, community and \u27Jewish\u27 materialism

 Returning to the Journal of Contemporary History debate on The Holy Reich, this article argues that the notion of \u27positive Christianity\u27 as  Nazi \u27religious system\u27 has been largely invented. It offers a close analysis of significant public statements on National socialism by three leading Nazis: Adolf Hitler, Gottfried Feder and Alfred Rosenberg

New research on Nazism and Christianity

Notes and presentation on research into the official Nazi views on religion, and a consideration of \u27ordinary\u27 Christian response to the rise of the Nazis in Germany

A cultural battlefront in the total war : theatre in Australian internment camps

In 1943, at the Berlin Sportspalast, Joseph Goebbels made his infamous speech on \u27total war\u27, appealing to the crowd to represent Germany as a nation and asking them whether they wanted a war \u27more total and radical\u27 than had been previously imagined. In Australia in 1944, the idea of this \u27total war\u27 struck a resonance with German civilians interned in Tatura, Victoria. Writing to protest a planned release of internees, these Camp 3 internees claimed an involvement in the \u27total war\u27, arguing that any release from the camp would necessitate working towards the \u27total destruction of the political, economical and cultural existence of the German Reich and the German nation.\u27 A curious, and important, part of their argument was that such a release would mean that their \u27cultural life would be endangered.\u27 It is precisely this \u27cultural life\u27 within internment that I wish to examine in this paper