Word: kulturkampj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Total State v. the Total Church battle is by no means new in Germany. The Church has never forgotten that 60 years ago it came to grips with Prince von Bismarck, in the famed Kulturkampj...
...jailed. Net effect was to embitter Germany's Catholic population, increase the strength of the Catholic Centre Party and finally to force Bis marck to back down. Though Germany's Protestant population is double its 20.000.000 Catholics, Adolf Hitler has shown no signs of personally attempting another Kulturkampj. Baptized a Catholic but no longer a practicing one, he has a good Catholic Vice Chancellor in Franz von Papen, whom he sent to Rome a year ago to wangle an agreement with the Holy Roman Church. The Concordat then signed looked good on paper. It recognized the religious rights...
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