Between God and Hitler

Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany

AvDoris L. Bergen

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped normalize extreme violence and legitimate its perpetrators. Military chaplains played a key role in propagating a narrative of righteousness that erased Germany's victims and transformed the aggressors into noble figures who suffered but triumphed over their foes. Between God and Hitler is the first book to examine Protestant and Catholic military chaplains in Germany from Hitler's rise to power, to defeat, collapse, and Allied occupation. Drawing on a wide array of sources - chaplains' letters and memoirs, military reports, Jewish testimonies, photographs, and popular culture - this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-05
Mått:229 x 151 x 22 mm
Vikt:504 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:346
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108720823

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Doris L. Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on issues of religion, gender, and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II and comparatively in other cases of extreme violence. Her publications include War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, now going into its fourth edition, with translations into Polish and Ukrainian. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has taught in Canada, the USA, Germany, Poland, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

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'Beautifully and absorbingly written, Between God and Hitler draws the reader in, to deliver the gut punch of the role of Wehrmacht chaplains, but also to compellingly explore that shifting role with broad perspective and extraordinary nuance, delivering fresh and important insight into the functioning of Nazism. Worthy of the widest readership.' Belinda Davis, Rutgers University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: an incongruous institution; 1. 'We will not let our swords get rusty!: On the cusp of 1933; 2. 1In times of peace the church arms herself for war1: 1933–1939; 3. 1Gott mit uns1: Blitzkrieg, 1939–1941; 4. Saving Christianity, killing Jews: June–December 1941; 5. 1The power of Christian truth and Christian faith1: genocidal culture, 1942–1943; 6. 1What should we preach now?1: 1944–1945; 7. From Nazi past to Christian future: 1945 and beyond; Conclusion: 1With what face should I remember this?.