Christopher Wilson
German Chaplain, for WW2 photoshoot
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2016 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/623368
2015 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/500618
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Germany at the time was a very Christian. See, the problem as you can imagine, the Nazi ideology isn’t exactly parallel to that of Christians to say the least. In fact the Germans went through great lengths to weaken the Churches status in German society. But like I mentioned above, over 90 percent of Germans were Christian at the time, so it was more of a moral/status quo type of deal letting the Chaplains serve. They weren’t typically outspoken because the screening process for chaplains managed to filter out any.
The Nazis had freedom of speech on lock down by that time, even German soldiers who disagreed with the government had to hold their tongue and fight the war on threats of execution. You can even be executed for publicly expressing doubt in the war effort. Defeatism is what it was called.
A lot of the disobedient clergymen were incarcerated during Hitlers rise prior to WW2. A lot of people don’t realize that one of the first large scale resistance against the Nazis were by Catholic clergymen in southern Germany. Despite Hitlers common Catholic and alpine roots, they were very outspoken about his discrimination policies. Especially the Sterilization acts, which allowed the killing of people who were determined to have mental or physical disorders. In 1933 the Nazis disbanded the Catholic Centre party. Dachau right outside of Munich was known to have a pretty sizable clergymen population.
By the mid 1930’s the tone of the Catholic church had greatly been reduced. Most Catholic priests avoided attention from the party, and some even openly supported them. Though the Nazis practiced restraint with the German clergymen as to not anger the catholic Germans. However in many areas they conquered, like Poland, the Nazis were pretty much ruthless in killing of and imprisoning religious authority.
German Chaplain, for WW2 photoshoot
www.starnow.co.uk/christopherw33618
2020 Reel youtu.be/fXhm5se6H3c
2017 Reel www.starnow.com/media/778224
2016 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/623368
2015 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/500618
Crew CV crew.mandy.com/uk/crew/profile/chris-christopher-wilson
wartimeproductions.co.uk/index.html
Germany at the time was a very Christian. See, the problem as you can imagine, the Nazi ideology isn’t exactly parallel to that of Christians to say the least. In fact the Germans went through great lengths to weaken the Churches status in German society. But like I mentioned above, over 90 percent of Germans were Christian at the time, so it was more of a moral/status quo type of deal letting the Chaplains serve. They weren’t typically outspoken because the screening process for chaplains managed to filter out any.
The Nazis had freedom of speech on lock down by that time, even German soldiers who disagreed with the government had to hold their tongue and fight the war on threats of execution. You can even be executed for publicly expressing doubt in the war effort. Defeatism is what it was called.
A lot of the disobedient clergymen were incarcerated during Hitlers rise prior to WW2. A lot of people don’t realize that one of the first large scale resistance against the Nazis were by Catholic clergymen in southern Germany. Despite Hitlers common Catholic and alpine roots, they were very outspoken about his discrimination policies. Especially the Sterilization acts, which allowed the killing of people who were determined to have mental or physical disorders. In 1933 the Nazis disbanded the Catholic Centre party. Dachau right outside of Munich was known to have a pretty sizable clergymen population.
By the mid 1930’s the tone of the Catholic church had greatly been reduced. Most Catholic priests avoided attention from the party, and some even openly supported them. Though the Nazis practiced restraint with the German clergymen as to not anger the catholic Germans. However in many areas they conquered, like Poland, the Nazis were pretty much ruthless in killing of and imprisoning religious authority.