Chapter 6 discusses the German-sponsored revival of the Russian Orthodox Church. The priests working for the Pskov Orthodox Mission, a wartime institution established to provide religious and relief services for the local population, saw themselves as Russian patriots: they laboured in the interest of the Russian nation, but in opposition to the Bolshevik regime and the partisan fighters working to re-establish it. While the clergy’s appeals to the faithful helped shore up support for the occupation regime, their patriotic message also kindled a popular sense of Russian national identity which could easily fuel anti-German attitudes in the minds of the growing number of people who came to see Nazi Germany as the greater evil.