The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.

• Author: Pal, Amitabh
• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 By Richard Steigmann-Gall Cambridge University Press. 294 pages. $30.

In this provocative book, SteigmannGall sets out to show that Nazism had a much closer relationship to Christianity than people think. He has done a prodigious amount of research and unearths documents and private statements to prove his point that the Nazi ideology was anticlerical rather than anti-Christian.

The Holy Reich does not deal persuasively enough, however, with the provenance of the twisted theology (termed "positive...