The Confessing Church was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.
Synodal elections 1933: German Christians and Confessing Church campaigners in Berlin
Meeting house of the Evangelical Dahlem Congregation, Berlin
Plaque commemorating the second Reich Synod of Confession on the outside wall of the meeting house
The religion of Protestantism, a form of Christianity, was founded within Germany in the 16th-century Reformation. It was formed as a new direction from some Roman Catholic principles. It was led initially by Martin Luther and later by John Calvin.
Stained glass window within the Sternberg Protestant Parish in Mecklenburg, commemorating the introduction of Protestantism in the region in 1549.
German Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1938.
Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach, 1562
Portrait of Lucas Cranach the Elder