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Newly published Nazi archives reveal the regime’s disdain for the Church of Jesus Christ

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A 500 -page dossier compiled by the Nazi Party’s intelligence agency on an unlikely group: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The B. H. Roberts Foundation recently acquired and published this dossier.

It provides an unfiltered view into the regime's scrutiny of the faith under the Nazi regime between 1933 and November 1939 .

Schieck: Saints refused to use the German salute in Nazi Germany .

Coates, Smoot, Coates: Despite ideological conflicts, Latter-day Saints counseled members to focus on spiritual growth rather than political matters.

The fact that only about 5% of German Latter-Day Saints became Nazi Party members speaks to the Saints ’ reluctance to embrace Nazi ideology, they say.

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