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Britain and the German Churches, 1945-1950
The Role of the Religious Affairs Branch in the British Zone

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It is well known that at the key allied conferences during the latter part of World War II the future victorious allies were already progressing their post-war planning. Duly, an Allied Control Commission, with the task of providing administrative functions and eventually handing them over to an elected government, was formed in post-war Germany. In the Western zones, the cornerstone of coordinated administration was a policy of denazification, demilitarisation and democratization. Almost all sectors of German life would thereafter to be administered by the Allies.

German Churches and religious affairs had, however, been promised to the defeated Germany. Of course, Nazism hadn't spared the Christian churches, and so questions of denazification and the future relationship between church and state in Germany remained significant. This book examines the British approach towards post-war German religious and ecclesiastical life by highlighting the role of the British Element of the Control Commission, more specifically the Religious Affairs Branch that was separated from the Education Branch at the end of 1945. Considering British attitudes to Catholics and Protestants, as well as the remaining Jewish and Muslim communities in Germany, this book uncovers allied differences with regards to organising future religious life in Germany.


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Peter Howson


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Authors Peter Howson, Rev Dr Peter Howson
Publisher Boydell Press
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 30.06.2021
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)
 
EAN 9781783275830
ISBN 978-1-78327-583-0
Pages 306
Dimensions (packing) 16.1 x 24 x 2.1 cm
Weight (packing) 625 g
 
Series Studies in Modern British Reli > 43
Studies in Modern British Religious History
 

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