The Churches in Nazi Germany

Learn more about the role of the Protestant and Catholic churches in Nazi Germany, as well as the experiences of Jehovah’s Witnesses and other Christian groups.

Holocaust Encyclopedia

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• ​The German Churches and the Nazi State

• Hermann Ludwig Maas

• Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany: From the 1890s to the 1930s

• Nazi Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses

• Role of German Clergy and Church Leaders

• Martin Niemoeller: Biography

• Martin Niemoeller: “First they came for the socialists...”

Articles

• Victoria Barnett, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” 1997. (PDF)

Curator's Corner

• The Kusserow Collection (Jehovah’s Witnesses)

Past Museum Programs

• The Danger of Indifference: ‘Then They Came for Me.’ Facebook Live event, June 10, 2020.

• Doris Bergen. “Between God and Hitler: German Military Chaplians and the Holocaust.” Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture, 2010.

• Robert P. Ericksen. “Christian Complicity? Changing Views on German Churches and the Holocaust.” (PDF) Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture, 2007.