Wolfgang Gerlach is a retired pastor in the Evangelical Church of Germany. Victoria J. Barnett is a consultant for the Department of Church Relations at the .

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Hans Philipp Ehrenberg (4 June 1883 – 21 March 1958) was a German Jewish philosopher and theologian

Hans Philipp Ehrenberg (4 June 1883 – 21 March 1958) was a German Jewish philosopher and theologian. One of the co-founders of the Confessing Church, he was forced to emigrate to England because of his Jewish ancestry and his opposition to National Socialism. Hans Ehrenberg was born into a liberal Jewish family, the eldest of three children. His parents were Emilie (née Fischel) and Otto Ehrenberg, brother of Victor Ehrenberg, a German jurist, and Richard Ehrenberg, a German economist.

Additional Information. But how does one explain the silence of those people who were committed, active, and often fearless opponents of the Nazi regime on other grounds-those who spoke out against Nazi activities in many areas yet whose response to genocide ranged from tepid disquiet to avoidance?

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Gerlach, Als die Zeugen schwiegen: Bekennende Kirche und die Juden (Berlin: Institut Kirche und Judentum, 1987); English translation: And the Witnesses Were Silent: The Confessing Church and the Persecution of the Jews, trans.

Gerlach, Als die Zeugen schwiegen: Bekennende Kirche und die Juden (Berlin: Institut Kirche und Judentum, 1987); English translation: And the Witnesses Were Silent: The Confessing Church and the Persecution of the Jews, trans. Barnett (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). Note that Gerlach completed his work as a dissertation in 1970, but then struggled for 17 years to find a German publisher. His willingness to criticize important theologians and church leaders certainly contributed to the delay.

Bibliographic Citation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution . Sarfatti, Michele (2006). Related Items in Google Scholar.

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