Was There a Religious Revival in the “Third Reich”?
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Was There a Religious Revival in the “Third Reich”? By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This article was originally published in Tagesspiegel, November…
Book Note: Against the Mainstream of the Hitler Era: The Wuppertal Reformed Theologian Helmut Hesse (1916-1943)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Book Note: Against the Mainstream of the Hitler Era: The Wuppertal Reformed Theologian Helmut Hesse (1916-1943) By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University The…
The Great Silence: How the Churches Behaved When the Synagogues Burned in November 1938
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) The Great Silence: How the Churches Behaved When the Synagogues Burned in November 1938 By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This article was…
Shrill Bell Ringing
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Shrill Bell Ringing With “Hitler Bells,” Protestant churches backed the “Führer.” Many still ring today. By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This article…
Review of Thomas Martin Schneider, Wem gehört Barmen? Das Gründungsdokument der Bekennenden Kirche und seine Wirkungen
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Thomas Martin Schneider, Wem gehört Barmen? Das Gründungsdokument der Bekennenden Kirche und seine Wirkungen (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017). Pp.241. ISBN: 9783374050345. By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin; translated by…
Luther’s Evil Writings
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Luther’s Evil Writings The reformer was not only anti-Jewish, but also antisemitic. So he was understood in the Nazi era, too. By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen,…
1933 as a Protestant Experience and the “Day of Potsdam”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) 1933 as a Protestant Experience and the “Day of Potsdam” By Manfred Gailus, Technical University of Berlin; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Lecture at the joint meeting of the…
Review of Christoph Picker, Gabriele Stueber, Klaus Buemlein, and Frank-Matthias Hofmann, eds., Protestanten ohne Protest: Die evangelische Kirche der Pfalz im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Review of Christoph Picker, Gabriele Stueber, Klaus Buemlein, and Frank-Matthias Hofmann, eds., Protestanten ohne Protest: Die evangelische Kirche der Pfalz im Nationalsozialismus, 2 Vols. (Speyer and Leipzig: Verlagshaus Speyer and Evangelische…
A Past that Will Not Pass Away: A Contribution to the 850th Anniversary of the Brandenburg Cathedral
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) A Past that Will Not Pass Away: A Contribution to the 850th Anniversary of the Brandenburg Cathedral By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin The following article was adapted from a…
A Crusade, a Holy War: Protestant Preaching in War-time, 1914.
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 4 (December 2014) A Crusade, a Holy War: Protestant Preaching in War-time, 1914. By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin This article is based on “Ein Gott, der Fahnen entrollt,” zeitzeichen: Evangelische Kommentare zu Religion…
In Remembrance: Ernst Klee (1942-2013)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 1 (March 2014) In Remembrance: Ernst Klee (1942-2013) By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin Ernst Klee, who died in May of last year, was a redoubtable investigative journalist and a noted non-academic historian…
Review of Thomas Grossbölting, Der verlorene Himmel. Glaube in Deutschland seit 1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 4 (December 2013) Review of Thomas Grossbölting, Der verlorene Himmel. Glaube in Deutschland seit 1945 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), Pp. 320. By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin This review appeared originally (in German) in Der…
Crosses and Swastikas
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Crosses and Swastikas By Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin The following article was written to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power. It was published in Der…
Review of Hildegard Frisius et al., eds., Evangelisch getauft – als Juden verfolgt. Spurensuche Berliner Kirchengemeinden
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Hildegard Frisius, Marianne Kälberer, Wolfgang G. Krogel, Gerlind Lachenicht, Frauke Lemmel, eds., Evangelisch getauft – als Juden verfolgt. Spurensuche Berliner Kirchengemeinden (Berlin: Wichern–Verlag, 2008), 452 Pp. By Manfred Gailus, Technische…
Memorial Speech: Friedrich Weissler (1891-1937) and the Confessing Church. Remembrance and Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Friedrich Weissler. Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, February 19, 2012
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2012 Memorial Speech: Friedrich Weissler (1891-1937) and the Confessing Church. Remembrance and Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Friedrich Weissler. Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, February 19, 2012. By Manfred Gailus, Technische…