'''''Kirchenkampf''''' ({{IPA-de|ˈkɪʁçn̩kampf|lang}}, "perjuangan gereja") adalah sebuah istilah Jerman terhadap keadaan gereja-gereja Kristen di Jerman pada zaman [[Nazi]] (1933–1945). Terkadang dipakai ambigu, istilah tersebut merujuk kepada salah satu "perjuangan gereja" berbeda atau lebih: persengketaan internal antar umat Kristen Jerman (''Deutsche Christen'') dan [[Gereja yang Mengaku]] (''Bekennende Kirche'') atas kontrol gereja-gereja Protestan; pertarungan antara rezim Nazi dan [[Landeskirche|badan-badan gereja Protestan]]; dan pertarungan antara rezim Nazi dan [[Gereja Katolik Roma]].. Sekitar dua per tiga orang Jerman adalah Protestan, dan sepertia Katolik saat Nazi berkuasa. Beberapa sejarawan menyatakan bahwa tujuan Hitler dalam ''Kirchenkampf'' tak hanya sekadar perjuangan ideologi, namuntetapi pengikisan gereja-gereja.<ref name="Controversial Concordats">Frank J. Coppa [https://books.google.com/books?id=KVQCjrz6kkQC&dq Controversial Concordats], p. 124, CUA Press, 1999</ref><ref>Sharkey, Joe [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DB1F39F930A25752C0A9649C8B63 Word for Word/The Case Against the Nazis; How Hitler's Forces Planned To Destroy German Christianity], ''New York Times'', January 13, 2002</ref><ref>[http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/nurinst1.shtml The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926204151/http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/nurinst1.shtml |date=2013-09-26 }}, ''Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion'', Winter 2001, publishing evidence compiled by the O.S.S. for the Nuremberg war-crimes trials of 1945 and 1946</ref><ref name="books.google.com">[[Roger Griffin|Griffin, Roger]] ''Fascism's relation to religion'' in Blamires, Cyprian, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nvD2rZSVau4C&dq World fascism: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1], p. 10, ABC-CLIO, 2006: "There is no doubt that in the long run Nazi leaders such as Hitler and Himmler intended to eradicate Christianity just as ruthlessly as any other rival ideology, even if in the short term they had to be content to make compromises with it."</ref><ref name="Mosse p. 240">[[George Lachmann Mosse|Mosse, George Lachmann]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=_cyR3QyuSdIC&dq Nazi culture: intellectual, cultural and social life in the Third Reich], p. 240, Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2003: "Had the Nazis won the war their ecclesiastical policies would have gone beyond those of the German Christians, to the utter destruction of both the Protestant and the Catholic Church."</ref><ref>Bendersky, Joseph W., [https://books.google.com/books?id=ATCXucbTYX0C&dq A concise history of Nazi Germany], p. 147, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007: "Consequently, it was Hitler's long range goal to eliminate the churches once he had consolidated control over his European empire."</ref><ref name="William L p. 240">[[William L. Shirer|Shirer, William L.]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=sY8svb-MNUwC&dq Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany], p. 240, Simon and Schuster, 1990: "And even fewer paused to reflect that under the leadership of Rosenberg, Bormann and Himmler, who were backed by Hitler, the Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early tribal Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists."</ref><ref>[[Jack Fischel|Fischel, Jack R.]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=EzBZP92xwUUC&dq Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust], p. 123, Scarecrow Press, 2010: "The objective was to either destroy Christianity and restore the German gods of antiquity or to turn Jesus into an Aryan."</ref><ref name="Germany: a modern history">Dill, Marshall, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xRrGP7L9_hEC&dq Germany: a modern history] , p. 365, University of Michigan Press, 1970: "It seems no exaggeration to insist that the greatest challenge the Nazis had to face was their effort to eradicate Christianity in Germany or at least to subjugate it to their general world outlook."</ref><ref name="Wheaton, Eliot Barculo p. 290, 363">Wheaton, Eliot Barculo [https://books.google.com/books?ei=Nu-6TrqBLOaTiQKL5dy2Dg&ct The Nazi revolution, 1933-1935: prelude to calamity:with a background survey of the Weimar era], p. 290, 363, Doubleday 1968: The Nazis sought "to eradicate Christianity in Germany root and branch."</ref> Sejarawan lain tak menganggap rencana semacam itu ada.<ref name="Steigmann-Gall, Richard 2003 p. 260">Steigmann-Gall, Richard (2003)' ''The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 260.</ref><ref name="Snyder, Louis L. 1981 p. 249">Snyder, Louis L. (1981) ''Hitler's Third Reich: A Documentary History''. New York: Nelson-Hall, p. 249.</ref><ref name="Dutton, Donald G. 2007 p. 41">Dutton, Donald G. (2007). ''The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence''. Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 41.</ref><ref name="Heschel, Susannah 2008 p. 23">Heschel, Susannah (2008). ''The Aryan Jesus''. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 23.</ref>
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