Theological myth, German antisemitism and the Holocaust: The case of Martin Niemoeller

The foremost leader of resistance to Nazism during the first five years of the Third Reich was Niemoeller. However he and most of the rest of the leadership agreed with the Nazi regime in its position on the Jewish question. This agreement in anti-Jewish attitudes, along with other factors such as German nationalism and Lutheran Obrigkeit, weakened and nearly ruined the ability of the resisters to set themselves up as the moral opposition to Hitler