Religion and Life - Nazi Germany Quotes

Grounding Paragraph

“Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered simple solutions to Germany’s problems, exploiting people’s fears, frustrations, and hopes to win broad support” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2025)

Body Paragraph 1 - Cooperation

“The political significance of the signing of the Concordat of 1933 was, however, ambiguous in its day and still remains so.” (Krieg, 2001). (Full name: Robert Krieg)

Body Paragraph 2 - Opposition

“If, then, the tree of peace, which we planted on German soil with the purest intention, has not brought forth the fruit” (Mit Brennender Sorge, 4)

Body Paragraph 4 - Resistance

“the direct killing of an innocent person because of mental or physical defects is not allowed” (Pius XII, 1940)