{"product_id":"christian-internationalism-and-german-belonging-the-salvation-army-from-imperial-germany-to-nazism-hardback-9780299353902","title":"Christian Internationalism and German Belonging; The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism (Hardback) 9780299353902","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChristian Internationalism and German Belonging\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRebecca Carter-Chand (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299353902\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 24 b\u0026amp;w photos, 7 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carter-Chand's long-awaited study of the Salvation Army's uncanny ability to survive absorption into the main Nazi social welfare organization, the NSV - without ever having, after 1945, to acknowledge any complicity in the Third Reich's countless evils - brilliantly explains this feat by placing the movement in the necessary longer-term and internationally comparative perspectives.\" - Dagmar Herzog, City University of New York\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Carter-Chand tells the riveting story of an international religious minority and its members' quest to adapt to modern German society, including their startling and disturbing efforts to conform to the racial norms of the Third Reich. Eloquently written and conceived, this is a brilliant, eye-opening work of judicious scholarship.\" - Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEver since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, it has navigated overlapping national and international identities. After decades of existing on the margins of the German religious landscape while solidifying its role as a social service provider, the Salvation Army proactively shaped its public profile during the Nazi rise to power. Accepted into the Nazi \u003ci\u003eVolksgemeinschaft \u003c\/i\u003e(ethnonational community) and made an auxiliary member of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV), the organization continued limited operations throughout the Nazi period before returning to its international affiliations in the immediate postwar period, thereby bypassing denazification and rehabilitating its reputation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this groundbreaking reevaluation, Rebecca Carter-Chand argues that the Salvation Army was able to emphasize different aspects of its identity to bolster and repair its reputation as needed in varied political contexts, highlighting the variability of Nazi practices of inclusion and exclusion. In that way, the organization was similar to other Christian groups in Germany. Counter to common hypotheses that minority religious groups are more likely to show empathy to other minorities, dynamics within Nazi Germany reveal that many religious minorities sought acceptance from the state in an effort to secure self-preservation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e The Transplantation into Imperial Germany \u003cbr\u003e 2 World War I and the Limits of Internationalism \u003cbr\u003e 3 Goodness and Corruption in the Weimar Imagination \u003cbr\u003e 4 Negotiating Charity from Weimar to Nazism \u003cbr\u003e 5 Finding Belonging in the Volksgemeinschaft \u003cbr\u003e At War Again \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Select List of Artistic Works from Germany That Portray the Salvation Army \u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Select List of Artistic Works Outside Germany That Portray the Salvation Army \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676644700440,"sku":"9780299353902","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/christian-internationalism-and-german-belonging-the-salvation-army-from-imperial-germany-to-nazism-hardback-9780299353902","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}