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| - Das Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben (auch: Eisenacher Institut oder Entjudungsinstitut) war eine antisemitische Einrichtung von elf deutschen evangelischen Landeskirchen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Es wurde auf Betreiben der Kirchenpartei Deutsche Christen (DC) am 6. Mai 1939 in Eisenach gegründet und bestand bis 1945. Ähnliche Ziele verfolgten das Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage der NSDAP und das staatliche Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage im Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, das bereits 1934 gegründet worden war und später umbenannt wurde. (de)
- The Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life was a cross-church establishment by eleven German Protestant churches in Nazi Germany, founded at the instigation of the German Christian movement. It was set up in Eisenach under Siegfried Leffler and Walter Grundmann. , professor of New Testament at the University of Giessen, who led the Institute from 1943 until the Institute's dissolution in May 1945, wrote about its goals in March 1944: "'This war is Jewry's war against Europe.' This sentence contains a truth which is again and again confirmed by the research of the Institute. This research work is not only adjusted to the frontal attack, but also to the strengthening of the inner front for attack and defence against all the covert Jewry and Jewish being, which has oozed into the Occidental Culture in the course of centuries, ... thus the Institute, in addition to the study and elimination of the Jewish influence, also has the positive task of understanding the own Christian German being and the organisation of a pious German life based on this knowledge." The Institute produced a Bible without the Old Testament and remade the New Testament, removing the genealogies of Jesus that showed his Davidic descent. It removed Jewish names and places, quotations from the Old Testament (unless they showed Jews in a bad light), and any mentions of fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. It remade Jesus into a militaristic, heroic figure fighting the Jews using Nazified language. In 1942, the Institute produced a hymn book, Grosser Gott wir loben Dich, which likewise removed any references to Zion, Jehovah, Jerusalem, Temple and Psalm. Words were substantially rewritten and many 19th- and 20th-century authors were represented who were previously not. It was about half the size of previous hymn books. The Lutherhaus Eisenach has been showing the special exhibition Study and Eradication. The Church’s ‘Dejudaization Institute’, 1939–1945, which examines the institute’s historical background, origins, work and impact, since 2019. The exhibition will remain on display until the end of 2022. (en)
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