Abstract

Abstract In its relations with the Catholic population of Bavaria, the Nazi Movement faced both before and after 1933 problems of an entirely different order from those which it encountered in its dealings with the Protestant population. Compared with the historical divisions and theological rifts which were features of a critical disunity in the Protestant Church during the Weimar Republic, Catholic institutions and religious life between the foundation of the German Empire and the rise of Nazism were characterized by an extraordinary degree of inner strength, cohesion, unity, and vitality, which rose to a peak in the years of the Republic.

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