How did an entire nation's churches end up serving the regime that destroyed them?

God's People tells the story of the Christian institutions that accommodated Adolf Hitler, and the Christ they reinvented to do it.

In November 1933, twenty thousand members of the German Christian movement packed the Berlin Sportpalast to hear a schoolteacher demand that Christianity be purged along racial lines and rebuilt as a national religion. The movement was embarrassed. They got rid of the man. They kept the agenda.

Across ten biographical chapters, Owen Morgan traces how Protestant, Catholic, and Jehovah's Witness leaders each faced the same impossible calculation: protect the institution or protect the people it claimed to serve. Every one of them chose the institution. Not because they were monsters, but because they couldn't see the difference.

Figures include:

• Adolf Hitler and his strategic use of Christian identity
• Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller and the captured Protestant church
• Popes Pius XI and XII and the Vatican's concordat with Hitler
• Watchtower president Joseph Rutherford and a letter calling his organization "outstandingly friendly to Germany"
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemöller, and the limits of resistance
• Walter Grundmann, who built an institute to strip Judaism from the Bible

Drawing on German primary sources translated by the author, including the first English translation of a lost 1933 German Christian founding document, God's People reveals the infrastructure that made accommodation feel rational, inevitable, and righteous every single time.

Essential listening for anyone watching the Christ of the nation replace the Christ of the gospel, then and now.