Abstract
The German church struggle in the nineteen thirties inevitably involved christians in Germany in a reconsideration of their attitudes towards politics, but its significance was not confined to Germany. The fate of Martin Niemöller, in particular, was a matter of lively concern in Britain. Conway contends that ‘the English-speaking public was all the more disposed to give every credit to the “Bekennende Kirche” because all the books published in English before the war were wholeheartedly on their side.’ English-speaking authors, he adds, unanimously, if one-sidedly, saw the struggle as one of church versus state, good versus evil, and confessing church versus nazi storm-troopers. A brief study of the activities of one of the writers mentioned by Conway, Mrs Dorothy Buxton, reveals that the ‘English-speaking public’ was not quite as unanimous in its interpretation of church and politics in Germany as the contemporary literary works might suggest.
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