Jan Bank is Emeritus Professor of Dutch History at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.Lieve Gevers is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church and Theology at the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium.

Never before has a volume provided a synoptic narrative of church activities across the continent, from France to the Soviet Union, during the war years. With erudition and sensitivity, Bank and Gevers tell the stories of the many churches scattered across Europe, and how they mobilized the Christian message of peace, or failed to, in an era of total war.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Church and State, Church and Nation after the First World WarChapter 2: Churches and Totalitarian IdeologiesChapter 3: Churches in Occupied Territories in the InterbellumChapter 4: Religion in All Out WarChapter 5: Churches between Loyalty and ResistanceChapter 6: The Nazi Mass Murder and the ChurchesChapter 7: The Pope, the Patriarch and the Oecumenical CouncilConclusion

Jan Bank is Emeritus Professor of Dutch History at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.Lieve Gevers is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church and Theology at the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium.

Never before has a volume provided a synoptic narrative of church activities across the continent, from France to the Soviet Union, during the war years. With erudition and sensitivity, Bank and Gevers tell the stories of the many churches scattered across Europe, and how they mobilized the Christian message of peace, or failed to, in an era of total war.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Church and State, Church and Nation after the First World WarChapter 2: Churches and Totalitarian IdeologiesChapter 3: Churches in Occupied Territories in the InterbellumChapter 4: Religion in All Out WarChapter 5: Churches between Loyalty and ResistanceChapter 6: The Nazi Mass Murder and the ChurchesChapter 7: The Pope, the Patriarch and the Oecumenical CouncilConclusion