Kirchenkampf
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Kirchenkampf is a German term which pertains to the situation of the Christian churches in Germany during the Nazi period (1933–1945). Sometimes used ambiguously, the term may refer to one or more of the following different "church struggles":The internal dispute within German Protestantism between the German Christians and the Confessing Church over control of the Protestant churches;
The tensions between the Nazi regime and the Protestant church bodies; and
The tensions between the Nazi regime and the Roman Catholic Church.
The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler ruled Germany for the period of the Church Struggle.
Stormtroopers holding Deutsche Christen propaganda during the Church Council elections on 23 July 1933 at St. Mary's Church, Berlin
The Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, among the most aggressive anti-clerical Nazis, wrote that there was "an insoluble opposition between the Christian and a heroic-German world view".
Martin Bormann, Hitler's "deputy" from April 1941, was the most hardcore Anti-Christian radical in the NSDAP, and saw Nazism and Christianity as "incompatible." He had a particular loathing for the Semitic origins of Christianity.
Martin Bormann
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Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler and a war criminal. After the war, he was convicted and sentenced to death-in-absentia for crimes against humanity. Bormann gained immense power by using his position as Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. He used his position to create an extensive bureaucracy and involve himself as much as possible in the decision making.
Bormann in 1934. A scar on his forehead has been edited out of this photograph.
Bormann in 1939
Bormann (in front beside Hitler) in Paris, June 1940
Bormann (behind and to Hitler's right) on the Old Bridge, Maribor, Slovenia, April 1941