The Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life was a cross-church establishment by German Protestant churches during the Third Reich, founded at the instigation of the German Christian movement. It was set up in Eisenach under Walter Grundmann.
Georg Bertram, professor of New Testament at the University of Giessen, who led the Institute since 1943, wrote about its goals in March 1944: "'This war is Jewry's war against Europe.' This sentence contains a truth which is again and again confirmed by the research of the Institute. This research work is not only adjusted to the frontal attack, but also to the strengthening of the inner front for attack and defense against all the covert Jewry and Jewish being, which has oozed into the Occidental Culture in the course of centuries, ... thus the Institute, in addition to the study and elimination of the Jewish influence, also has the positive task of understanding the own Christian German being and the organization of a pious German life based on this knowledge."