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The so-called "Kirchenkampf" from 1933–1945 split the Protestant Church in Germany into two major groups, the Confessing Church and the German Christians. The battle took place less on the political level than from within the church. Matthias Biermann looks at the influence this situation had on the hymns used in the church. First, on a practical level, he describes the way hymns were sung during ...