Evangelisch und deutsch?: Auslandsgemeinden im 20. Jahrhundert zwischen Nationalprotestantismus, Volkstumspolitik und OEkumene

In times when Germany is the destination for immigration and flight from all parts of the world, it makes sense to remember that this country has primarily been an emigration area for centuries and the history of many Germans until the recent past of emigration and flight and exile. The essays in this volume describe how different types of Protestant congregations abroad dealt with the political and social crises and upheavals of the 20th century in their German home countries and their host countries. The focus is on the years after the First World War, National Socialism, the Second World War and finally the period after 1945. It has been shown that Protestant congregations abroad have repeatedly re-established their relationship to the German country of origin and the Protestant church in Germany over the course of the 20th century had to define. With the topic of foreign congregations , church contemporary history research opens up an interesting field of research that can be connected to current issues of migration and global history.