On the Ambiguity of Religion and Politics in Germany: The Evangelical Church in the Nazi-Era

During the Nazi era, the Protestant Church in Germany was challenged by the so-called church struggle between the German Christian Movement and the Confessing Church.This article interprets the church struggle in a new way by taking up concepts from Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory and ambiguity research. It becomes clear that the church struggle was ultimately about the fundamental problem of the relationship between the religious and political system.