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Zwischen Schuld und Sühne
Irena Ostmeyer
其他書名
evangelische Kirche und Juden in SBZ und DDR, 1945-1990
出版Institut Kirche und Judentum, 2002
ISBN39230957599783923095759
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ghwRAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Traces changes of attitude toward Judaism and the Holocaust in the East German Protestant Church. In the immediate postwar years, the Church of both Germanies, still united, at best expressed contrition for the passivity of its individual members in the face of Nazi persecutions, and continued to assert the need to bring Jews to Christ. Only gradually, beginning in the 1960s, did the East German Church come to acknowledge the guilt of the Church as a body, and of its theology, and to view the Jewish people as older brother and partner. Declarations of Church organs did not, however, always translate into teaching and preaching, which often clung to old anti-Jewish doctrines. When the teaching was enlightened, it was a source of knowledge for young Germans about Jews, Judaism, and the Holocaust, subjects ignored in the state schools. Interest was aroused also by commemoration of the annniversary of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in 1978 and especially in 1988. Individuals began to form groups for contact with Jews, to promote the erection of Holocaust memorials outside churches, and to tend Jewish cemeteries.