The role of churches in the Third Reich remains controversial to this day. Did they too quickly accommodate themselves to the new authority, even allowing themselves to be aligned? Did the churches share in the guilt, and have they adequately acknowledged this guilt in retrospect? What significance did church resistance have? Christoph Strohm outlines in his concise overview how, shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933, a concordat was established with the Catholic Church, the German Christians were founded, and the Confessing Church was formed. He explains the state church policy before and during World War II and the reactions of the churches to their own persecution as well as to the Nazi crimes. Finally, he describes how the churches dealt with the question of guilt after 1945.