Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945 (New by Arne Hassing

By Arne Hassing

Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945 examines the evolution of the Lutheran country Church of Norway based on the German profession. whereas German Protestant church buildings as a rule authorized Nazism and kingdom incorporation, Norway�s church buildings rejected either Nazism and ideological alignment. Arne Hassing strikes throughout the background of the Church of Norway�s dating to the Nazi nation, from its preliminary stressed complicities to its open resistance and separation. He writes engagingly of the folk on the heart of this fight and displays on how the resistance affected the postwar church and state.

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