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Adaptation or resistance? The topic is the role of the Christian churches in National Socialism. What was the churches' attitude to the persecution of Jews and euthanasia? Which priests and bishops resisted? The Reich Concordat between the Catholic Church and the German Reich is also a topic, as is the imprisonment and murder of clergy. The contemporary witnesses interviewed are: Michael Höck and Hans Werners, Catholic priests. Eberhard Bethge, Protestant theologian and friend of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (executed in 1945); Martin Niemöller, Protestant theologian (photos from 1984); Paula Sarach, imprisoned in the concentration camp in Hadamar for making critical comments about euthanasia. Nationalistic state, Corpus Christi procession in Munich, members of the NSDAP before 1933 are not tolerated in the church, heretical aberrations, Adolf Wagner, Michael Höck, Vatican, Cardinal Bertram 00:04:42 Silence of the bishops on the first anti-Semitic attacks, fear that it could also become a fight against the Catholics, Hans Werner's, Concordat, mass marriages, wedding, blessing of the church 00:06:35 Anti-Semitic group in the Protestant church, German Christians, should take power in the church, Gleichschaltung, Martin Niemöller, Pastors' Emergency League 00:07:48 Dismissal of clergy of Jewish descent, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge, pompous self-dramatization, the German episcopate of Hans Werner, destruction of synagogues, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Hans von Dohnanyi, Hans Oster 00:21:19 Paula Sarach, German mental institutions, mentally ill, euthanasia program, order for mass murder, Nazi killing center Hadamar, Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, sermons, regime opponents, 00:24:58 Konrad von Preysing, Berlin, harshest critic, St. Hedwig Director: Michael Kloft Producer: Bengt von zur Mühlen