Hitler's Personal Prisoner: The Life of Martin Niemöller

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Hitler’s Personal Prisoner: The Life of Martin Niemöller
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Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Note on Terminology and Translations
Introduction
PART I: PROTESTANT NATIONALISM IN IMPERIAL GERMANY AND WEIMAR REPUBLIC
	1: Childhood and Youth in a Parsonage
		A Childhood Under the Banner of National Protestantism
		The Fascination of the Great Naval Game
	2: Officer Candidate in the Imperial Navy
		Service on the Training Vessel SMS Hertha
		A Wasted Year at the Mürwik Naval School
		The Issue of Marital Consent
	3: ‘May God Punish England’: Nationalism and the Great War 1914–1918
		The Long Wait for a Mission
		Service in the U-Boat Force
		Disappointed Hopes for Victory
	4: Theological Studies and Counter-Revolution 1919–1923
		Professional Alternatives
		Becoming a Pastor
		Radical Right-Wing Student Politician in Münster
		Studying Theology with Practical Relevance
	5: Inner Mission and People’s Community 1924–1931
		Director of the Inner Mission in Westphalia
		Life of a Pastor’s Family
		The Inner Mission as a Service to the People’s Community
	6: As a Parish Priest in Berlin Dahlem 1931–1932
		Worries about Sermons and Number of Churchgoers
		The German Christians
		Rapid Shift to the Right in 1931–1932
PART II: CHURCH QUARRELS AND CRISIS OF FAITH IN THE THIRD REICH
	7: The Nazi Seizure of Power in 1933 as a ‘Protestant Experience’
		Sermons in the Spirit of National Awakening
		The Young Reformation Movement
		The Church Elections on 23 July 1933
	8: The Beginning of the Church Quarrel
		The Founding of the Pastors’ Emergency League
		Ambivalences in Niemöller’s Perception of the Jews
		Critique of Niemöller’s Views
		The Chancellor’s Reception on 25 January 1934
	9: Building the Confessing Church, 1934
		The ‘gathering of Christians among Christians’—The Confessing Church
		The Theological Declaration of the Barmen Synod
		The Dahlem Synod and the Implementation of Church Emergency Law
	10: The Split of the Confessing Church 1935–1936
		A Wave of Repression from the Nazi State
		The ‘Pacification’ Policy of Reich Minister for Church Affairs Kerrl
		Persisting Anti-Jewish Stereotypes in the Confessing Church
		The Formal Split of the Confessing Church in Bad Oeynhausen
		The Memorandum of the Second VKL to Hitler
	11: Arrest and Trial 1937–1938
		The Decision to Arrest Niemöller
		Global Solidarity with the Imprisoned Pastor
		Indictment and Niemöller’s Defence Strategy
	12: ‘Hitler’s Personal Prisoner’: Imprisoned in Concentration Camps
		Release through a Declaration to Cease and Desist?
		Wartestandsaffäre and Voluntary Application for Military Service
		The Planned Conversion to the Catholic Church
		Interned in Dachau Concentration Camp with Three Catholic Priests
		The Looming German Defeat as ‘the Decline of the West’
PART III: CHURCH POLITICS, PEACE ACTIVISM, AND ECUMENICAL WORK FROM 1945
	13: New Beginnings—Delayed
		The ‘Historical’ Niemöller and the Myth of the Resistance Fighter
		The Germans as Victims and Niemöller’s Antisemitism
	14: Rebuilding the Protestant Church
		The Treysa Conference
		The Question of Guilt and the Discourse of Victimization
		Church Politics in Hesse-Nassau and in the EKD
	15: The Political Pastor: Niemöller as a Critic of the Federal Republic
		The Prophetic Guardianship of the Church
		Critic of German Rearmament
		Niemöller and the Neutralists
	16: Pacifism: Niemöller and the Fight against Nuclear Armament
		Niemöller’s Path to Pacifism
		‘Fight Atomic Death’
		President of the German Peace Society
		Pacifism for the ‘Family of Humans’
	17: ‘The World Is My Parish’: Ecumenical Work
		Ecumenical Encounters in the Face of Death: Dachau Sermons
		Evangelization in the Superlative: Niemöller’s Trip to the USA, 1946–1947
	18: Hopes and Disappointments in Old Age
		In Favour of the Revolution
		Life in the Crew 1910
	Conclusion
Notes
	Notes to Introduction
	Notes to Chapter 1
	Notes to Chapter 2
	Notes to Chapter 3
	Notes to Chapter 4
	Notes to Chapter 5
	Notes to Chapter 6
	Notes to Chapter 7
	Notes to Chapter 8
	Notes to Chapter 9
	Notes to Chapter 10
	Notes to Chapter 11
	Notes to Chapter 12
	Notes to Chapter 13
	Notes to Chapter 14
	Notes to Chapter 15
	Notes to Chapter 16
	Notes to Chapter 17
	Notes to Chapter 18
	Notes to Conclusion
Bibliography
	1. Primary Sources
	2. Periodicals
	3. Printed Primary Sources and Literature
Index