Kathleen Burton has taught in the French department at Yale University since 2007. She has a PhD in theology from L’Université Laval in Québec, an MA in French from Central Connecticut State University, and a BA in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. She has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Bordeaux.

This book, solidly documented and clearly written, retraces the action and the reflection of the spiritual resistance led by Pierre Chaillet, who courageously and effectively opposed the pagan religion that is fundamentally Nazism. This fascinating and too-little-known story sheds light on the past and gives food for thought for the present.

• Preface Acknowledgments PART I: THE NAZI RELIGION: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Chapter 1: Point 24 of the Nazi Political Party Platform Chapter 2: The Myth of the Twentieth Century Chapter 3: Alfred Rosenberg and Positive Christianity Chapter 4: Religious References in Mein Kampf Chapter 5: Rosenberg’s Early Writings and Friends of Europe Publications PART II: DUPED CHRISTIANITY: HITLER’S PROPAGANDA COUP Chapter 6: A Weak Christian Shield in Germany Chapter 7: Disunity in Germany’s Protestant Voice PART III: THE RISE OF THE CHRISTIAN RESISTANCE IN FRANCE Chapter 8: The French Churches Confront Nazism Chapter 9: The French Christian Resistance Chapter 10: Témoignage Chrétien (The Christian Witness) Chapter 11: L’Amitié chrétienne (Christian Friendship) Afterword: What Needs to Be Done? Appendix A: The Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party Appendix B: Paul Tillich’s “Ten Theses on National Socialism” Appendix C: Friends of Europe Publications

Kathleen Burton has taught in the French department at Yale University since 2007. She has a PhD in theology from L’Université Laval in Québec, an MA in French from Central Connecticut State University, and a BA in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. She has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Bordeaux.

This book, solidly documented and clearly written, retraces the action and the reflection of the spiritual resistance led by Pierre Chaillet, who courageously and effectively opposed the pagan religion that is fundamentally Nazism. This fascinating and too-little-known story sheds light on the past and gives food for thought for the present.

• Preface Acknowledgments PART I: THE NAZI RELIGION: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Chapter 1: Point 24 of the Nazi Political Party Platform Chapter 2: The Myth of the Twentieth Century Chapter 3: Alfred Rosenberg and Positive Christianity Chapter 4: Religious References in Mein Kampf Chapter 5: Rosenberg’s Early Writings and Friends of Europe Publications PART II: DUPED CHRISTIANITY: HITLER’S PROPAGANDA COUP Chapter 6: A Weak Christian Shield in Germany Chapter 7: Disunity in Germany’s Protestant Voice PART III: THE RISE OF THE CHRISTIAN RESISTANCE IN FRANCE Chapter 8: The French Churches Confront Nazism Chapter 9: The French Christian Resistance Chapter 10: Témoignage Chrétien (The Christian Witness) Chapter 11: L’Amitié chrétienne (Christian Friendship) Afterword: What Needs to Be Done? Appendix A: The Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party Appendix B: Paul Tillich’s “Ten Theses on National Socialism” Appendix C: Friends of Europe Publications

Kathleen Burton has taught in the French department at Yale University since 2007. She has a PhD in theology from L’Université Laval in Québec, an MA in French from Central Connecticut State University, and a BA in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. She has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Bordeaux.

This book, solidly documented and clearly written, retraces the action and the reflection of the spiritual resistance led by Pierre Chaillet, who courageously and effectively opposed the pagan religion that is fundamentally Nazism. This fascinating and too-little-known story sheds light on the past and gives food for thought for the present.

• Preface Acknowledgments PART I: THE NAZI RELIGION: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Chapter 1: Point 24 of the Nazi Political Party Platform Chapter 2: The Myth of the Twentieth Century Chapter 3: Alfred Rosenberg and Positive Christianity Chapter 4: Religious References in Mein Kampf Chapter 5: Rosenberg’s Early Writings and Friends of Europe Publications PART II: DUPED CHRISTIANITY: HITLER’S PROPAGANDA COUP Chapter 6: A Weak Christian Shield in Germany Chapter 7: Disunity in Germany’s Protestant Voice PART III: THE RISE OF THE CHRISTIAN RESISTANCE IN FRANCE Chapter 8: The French Churches Confront Nazism Chapter 9: The French Christian Resistance Chapter 10: Témoignage Chrétien (The Christian Witness) Chapter 11: L’Amitié chrétienne (Christian Friendship) Afterword: What Needs to Be Done? Appendix A: The Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party Appendix B: Paul Tillich’s “Ten Theses on National Socialism” Appendix C: Friends of Europe Publications