Kurt Gerstein

Kurt Gerstein (August 11, 1905 - July 25, 1945) was a German SS officer of religious background who became conflicted during his dual enrollment in both the Confessional Church and the Nazi party. Gerstein publicly rebelled and attempted to spread intellegince from eyewitness accounts via a Swedish diplomat and members of the Vatican (though said attempts failed miserably due to inconsistency and exaggeration).

Doublethink
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Cognitive Dissonance
Focusing on Gerstein's dual enrollment in both the Confessional Church and the Nazi Party, he was torn between the nationalistic ideals of the German people adn the morality and codes of the struggling religious group. Much of this conflict was due to the fact that, as a university student,  Gerstein was exposed to religious environments that he took part of as a leader -- and once his post was dissolved, he had found the Confessing Church as solace, a community of anti-Nazi Protestants fighting political and social oppression.

 Joined the Stormtroopers and then further went to criticize the anti-Christian message of the Nazi Party.

" Firm defense of religious concepts  and of the honour of the Confessional youth movements, but  weakness in the face of National Socialism , with acceptance of its terminology and shoddy rhetoric; acceptance, above all, of the existing political order, of its authoritarianism and its hysterical nationalism"