The National Confessional Synod, in special instructions to Protestant pastors for combating Nazi propaganda and interference in church life, has criticized National Socialist deification of race.
“The one-sided deification of racial and biological values and concrete accomplishment has created a hard-heartedness regarding the ‘inferior and useless’ which is a contradiction of brotherly love,” the instructions said.
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