Ericksen on Church Struggle

Almost no serious scholar, for example, now claims that the Protestant ‘Church Struggle’ was a struggle against the Nazi state.The Barmen Declaration itself, the foundation for the Confessing Church, warns its readers: ‘Be not deceived by loose talk, as if we meant to oppose the unity of the German nation!’ The word ‘Jew’ is never mentioned in the Barmen Declaration, nor is there any critique of other Nazi policies. This ‘struggle’ was theological and ecclesiastical, an attack upon the alleged heresy of the Deutsche Christen.

~Robert Ericksen, Pastors and Professors