Betrayal: German Churches and the HolocaustRobert P. Ericksen, Susannah Heschel Leading scholars in the field of Holocaust studies place the Nazi era in full historical perspective. This book is a broad overview of the Protestant and Catholic responses, including institutional churches, the theological faculties, and theologians, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Joseph Lortz. Included are assessments of the German Christian movement, the Confessing Church, the German Catholic church, the Vatican, and the free churches. Various responses and individualsvillains, heroes, equivocatorsare highlighted. |
Contents
German Protestant Theologians | 22 |
The German Christian Movement | 40 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hitlers Persecution of the Jews | 110 |
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