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Raphael Warnock: “Much of the church capitulated to Hitler's Reich. They…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Raphael Warnock Discusses Activism, Governance, and Peacebuilding at US Institute of Peace Event

Published | Video Starts at 23:34

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was somebody who was informed my thinking and my work, he was the German activist and pastor during Hitler's Third Reich. Sadly, in Germany, Much of the church capitulated to Hitler's Reich. They became Reich Christians. And they gave in to this. They either, most either facilitated it. They certainly didn't put up much resistance. (23:34–23:41)

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Asserts that many churches in Germany supported or did not resist Hitler's regime.

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