Book contents
- British Christians and the Third Reich
- British Christians and the Third Reich
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I An Inhabited Landscape
- Part II The German National Revolution, 1933–1934
- Part III Resisting a Rapprochement, 1935–1937
- Part IV Crisis, 1938–1939
- Part V The Onslaught, 1939–1943
- 11 A Righteous War
- 12 New Alliances
- Part VI A Gathering Judgement, 1944–1949
- Endings and Legacies
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - A Righteous War
1939–1941
from Part V - The Onslaught, 1939–1943
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
- British Christians and the Third Reich
- British Christians and the Third Reich
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I An Inhabited Landscape
- Part II The German National Revolution, 1933–1934
- Part III Resisting a Rapprochement, 1935–1937
- Part IV Crisis, 1938–1939
- Part V The Onslaught, 1939–1943
- 11 A Righteous War
- 12 New Alliances
- Part VI A Gathering Judgement, 1944–1949
- Endings and Legacies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Neville Chamberlain broadcast a declaration of war to the nation from Downing Street at 11:15 on the morning of 3 September. It was a Sunday. At Lambeth Palace, Alan Don reflected bleakly, but with some resolution: ‘We enter the dreadful contest with grim determination that the Nazi regime & the Nazi code of morality [sic] must be overthrown.’1 At York Minster a verger traipsed across the nave to interrupt Archbishop Temple in the middle of his sermon. ‘What I have said’, Temple remarked to the congregation, ‘has been imbued with the virtual certainty that that would be the news which would be given to us.’2 In Winchester Cathedral Bishop Garbett heard the news as he walked up the steps of the cathedral pulpit to conduct special intercessions. Now retired to Suffolk, Bishop Henson heard the news from a passer-by as he left the morning service at Hintlesham parish church. Later he wrote, ‘It is difficult to realize the awful significance of this fact.
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- British Christians and the Third ReichChurch, State, and the Judgement of Nations, pp. 273 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022