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Christianity After World War II (Sandbox Version)


The left tower is of the "Petrikirche" (St Peter church), a Lutheran central city church where I worked for eight years. The right tower belongs to the city hall. Today, more than 60 years after WW II, the face of the inner city of Hamburg has of course totally changed. But elderly "Hanseatic" citizens still remember the terror of being bombed to ashes. The aftermath of war in Europe and overseas is a complex phenomenon, also regards Christianity. Different opinions and mindsets evolved, depending on which side of the "cold war" believers lived, and also depending on whether believers resisted during the times of terror or not. For most believers in the Soviet Union terror seemed to come to an end only after the death of one of the most brutal dictators in history, 1953. Since the global community of Christians have been split over the approach and reprocessing of war crime and murder, different steps were taken to cope with national and personal guilt. Because of that, as a matter of fact, the so-called Body of Christ has been divided into various movements and camps.

Study the material below and answer the question:

Where are the differences between Western European, Eastern European and North-American Christian endeavors to cope with guilt related to the war crimes between 1938 and 1945?


 * The German churches before and after 1945
 * religion and politics since 1945 (USA)
 * Imposed German Guilt: The Stuttgart Declaration of 1945
 * Eastern Christianity and the Cold War
 * Christianity_in_the_20th_century
 * Mass crimes against humanity and genocides - Atrocities since World War II
 * Religion in Post-World War II America

-- In awe  20:07, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

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