German Christians (movement)
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This article is about a Christian pressure group in Nazi Germany. For Christianity in Germany, see Religion in Germany.
"Faith Movement of the German Christians" redirects here. For the Nazi pagan movement, see German Faith Movement.
German Christians (German: Deutsche Christen) were a pressure group and a movement within the German Evangelical Church that existed between 1932 and 1945, aligned towards the antisemitic, racist, and Führerprinzip ideological principles of Nazism with the goal to align German Protestantism as a whole towards those principles.[1] Their advocacy of these principles led to a schism within 23 of the initially 28 regional church bodies (Landeskirchen) in Germany and the attendant foundation of the opposing Confessing Church in 1934.[2] Siegfried Leffler was a co-founder of the German Christians. [3]