Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity: Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain, 1925-1937 - Hardcoverby Kenneth C. Barnes (Author) The Great Depression devastated the economies of both Germany and Great Britain. Yet the middle classes in the two countries responded in vastly different ways. German Protestants, perceiving a choice among a Bolshevik style revolution, the chaos and decadence of Weimar liberalism, and Nazi authoritarianism, voted Hitler into power and then acquiesced in the resulting dictatorship. In Britain, Labour and Tory politicians