He and a small number of other German Protestant leaders gathered, calling themselves the Confessing Church. They issued the ...

A state Reich Church under the leadership of the Nazi Bishop, Ludwig Müller was established to unify the different branches of Protestantism. This enabled the Nazis to use a group called the ...

Recently the U.S. Catholic bishops approached the new president − red biretta in hand − and humbly asked him not to arrest anyone in churches or schools. During the Third Reich, the national ...

Many Protestant pastors, led by Martin Niemöller, formed the Confessional Church in opposition to Hitler's Reich Church.