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Updated:Apr 23, 2026
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Opposition from Churches and Religious Groups in Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

Opposition from Churches and Religious Groups in Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

  1. Pastors’ Emergency League founded to resist Nazification

    Labels: Pfarrernotbund, Martin Niem

  2. Synod of Barmen adopts Barmen Theological Declaration

    Labels: Barmen Declaration, Confessing Church

  3. Dahlem Synod declares emergency church governance

    Labels: Dahlem Synod, German Evangelical

  4. Pope Pius XI issues encyclical Mit brennender Sorge

    Labels: Pope Pius, Mit brennender

  5. Mit brennender Sorge read in German Catholic churches

    Labels: Mit brennender, German Catholics

  6. Gestapo arrests Confessing Church leader Martin Niemöller

    Labels: Martin Niem, Gestapo

  7. Pius XII issues Summi Pontificatus on human unity

    Labels: Pope Pius, Summi Pontificatus

  8. Bishop von Galen denounces Nazi “euthanasia” in sermon

    Labels: Bishop von, M nster

  9. Hitler orders suspension of Aktion T4 killings

    Labels: Adolf Hitler, Aktion T4

  10. Priest Bernhard Lichtenberg arrested for public prayers

    Labels: Bernhard Lichtenberg, Berlin

  11. White Rose leaders arrested distributing anti-Nazi leaflets

    Labels: White Rose, University of

  12. Hans and Sophie Scholl executed after People’s Court trial

    Labels: Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl

  13. Bonhoeffer arrested and imprisoned at Tegel

    Labels: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Tegel Prison

  14. Bernhard Lichtenberg dies during transfer toward Dachau

    Labels: Bernhard Lichtenberg, Dachau transfer