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Assistant Professor of Modern European Christianity
Christianity under Fascism in Europe, 1920s-1950s
What was Christian life like under dictatorships, and why did so many believers in Europe embrace fascist ideologies? In order to find answers, my research looks at religious publications, newspaper articles, and diplomatic documents from Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, and Vichy France. For example, this work explores the history of the Protestant ‘German Christians Movement’, but also the diplomacy of the Vatican in order to evaluate why Pope Pius XII remained silent about the Holocaust. Yet, my research also engages with religious resistance, and the question of how Christians came to support democracy after 1945.
