The Polish Catholic Church under German occupation : the Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945 / Jonathan Huener.

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"When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huener, Jonathan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Poland > Wielkopolska > History > 20th century.
Catholic Church > Poland > Wielkopolska > Clergy > Biography.
Catholics > Nazi persecution > Poland > Wielkopolska.
National socialism and religion > Poland > Wielkopolska.
World War, 1939-1945 > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Church and state > Poland > History > 20th century.
Wielkopolska (Poland) > Church history > 20th century.
Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945.
Église catholique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Église catholique > Clergé > Biographies.
Catholiques > Persécutions nazies > Pologne > Pologne, Grande.
Nazisme > Pologne > Pologne, Grande > Aspect religieux.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect religieux > Église catholique.
Église et État > Pologne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pologne > Histoire > 1939-1945 (Occupation)
Catholic Church.
Catholics > Nazi persecution.
Church and state.
Clergy.
National socialism and religion.
War > Religious aspects.
Poland.
Poland > Wielkopolska.
1900-1999
Biographies.
Church history.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Church history.
History.
Physical Description:xvii, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Tannenberg : the Einsatzgruppen and the Polish clergy, fall 1939
  • Grösste Härte : the invasion of Poland : ideology and execution
  • Hetzkaplan : the Polish church and the "agitator priest" in Nazi ideology
  • Mustergau : the Reichsgau Wartheland as "model Gau"
  • Dominselaktion : the "Cathedral Island action"
  • Deportacja : the deportation and incarceration of the clergy
  • Kult : restrictions on public religious life
  • Profanacja : desecration and plunder
  • Nationalitätenprinzip : national segregation in church life
  • Dreizehn Punkte : from the "Thirteen Points" to the "September Decree"
  • Zerschlagung : the "Action for the destruction of the Polish clergy"
  • Dachau : Polish clergy in the concentration camp Dachau
  • Nonnenlager : women religious in the Bojanowo labor camp
  • Späne : Kirchenpolitik in the Warthegau, 1942-1944
  • Parafia : parish life
  • Konspiracja : resistance and conspiracy
  • "Et papa tacet"? : Pius XII and the church in the Warthegau
  • Kurswechsel : a change in course.