Nazify

Hitler, realizing this, was determined to take it over and Nazify it.

Following this failure, Hitler backtracked on attempts to directly nazify the churches and became disinterested in supporting the "German Christians".

But the new head of the Church, a heavy-handed man, was not able to establish a unified Church or to completely Nazify the Protestant congregations.

Klausener was shunted aside to the Prussian transportation ministry to make way for Göring to Nazify the Prussian police.

As an active member of this opposition to government-sponsored efforts to nazify the German Protestant church, he proclaimed his faith openly and ignored orders to refrain from teaching the Bible-which earned him several arrests and lengthy jail confinements.

As an aspect of Gleichschaltung, the regime planned to nazify the Protestant Church in Germany (Evangelical Church) by unifying the separate 28 state churches under a single national church that was controlled by the German Christian faction.

As part of his plan to bring all organisations in Germany under the regime's control, Hitler created what he hoped would become a single state church, the Protestant Reich Church, and made efforts to disband or nazify the 28 existing Protestant churches.