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Auteur(s) : Huener, Jonathan (1963-....)
Titre(s) : The Polish Catholic Church under German occupation [Texte imprimé] : the Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945 / Jonathan Huener
Publication : Bloomington (Ind.) : Indiana University Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-352 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 315-338. Index
"When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness.
As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds
of Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious target of the Nazi
regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and cultural Germanization. Jonathan Huener reveals
in this book that the persecution of the church was most severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland,
a region of Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the execution
of priests, the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen and nuns in prisons and concentration
camps, the closure of churches, the destruction and confiscation of church property,
and countless restrictions on public expression of the Catholic faith. Huener also
illustrates how some among the Nazi elite viewed this area as a testing ground for
anti-church policies to be launched in the Reich after the successful completion of
the war. Based on largely untapped sources from state and church archives, punctuated
by vivid archival photographs, and marked by nuance and balance, this book exposes
both the brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy. The first English-language
investigation of German policy toward the Catholic Church in occupied Poland, this
compelling story also offers insight into the varied ways in which Catholics-from
Pope Pius XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity at the parish
level-responded to the Nazi regime's repressive measures"
Sujet(s) : Église catholique -- Clergé -- Wartheland (Pologne) -- 1900-1945
Église et État -- Wartheland (Pologne) -- 1900-1945
National-socialisme et religion -- Wartheland (Pologne)
Pologne -- 1939-1945 (Occupation)
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.530 8823 (23e éd.) = Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Étude en relation avec les personnes dont l'activité
est liée au christianisme
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780253054029. - ISBN 0253054028. - ISBN 9780253054043. - ISBN 0253054044. -
ISBN 9780253054036 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470542031
Notice n° :
FRBNF47054203
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Tannenberg : the Einsatzgruppen and the Polish clergy, fall 1939 ; Grösste Härte
: the invasion of Poland : ideology and execution ; Hetzkaplan : the Polish church
and the "agitator priest" in Nazi ideology ; Mustergau : the Reichsgau Wartheland
as "model Gau" ; Dominselaktion : the "Cathedral Island action" ; Deportacja : the
deportation and incarceration of the clergy ; Kult : restrictions on public religious
life ; Profanacja : desecration and plunder ; Nationalitätenprinzip : national
segregation in church life ; Dreizehn Punkte : from the "Thirteen Points" to the
"September Decree" ; Zerschlagung : the "Action for the destruction of the Polish
clergy" ; Dachau : Polish clergy in the concentration camp Dachau ; Nonnenlager
: women religious in the Bojanowo labor camp ; Späne : Kirchenpolitik in the Warthegau,
1942-1944 ; Parafia : parish life ; Konspiracja : resistance and conspiracy ; "Et
papa tacet"? : Pius XII and the church in the Warthegau ; Kurswechsel : a change
in course.
