“Dark, Depressing Riddle”: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of the Volk in the Theology of Paul AlthausRyan Tafilowski

It is rare that a study of a German Protestant theologian during the Third Reich speaks to today’s political sensibilities. The Lutheran Paul Althaus was a strong advocate of a “unique spiritual vitality” (p. 50) of the German people. Construing Germans as an ethnically distinct group endowed with a...

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Main Author: Krondorfer, Björn 1959- (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-291
Review of:‘Dark, Depressing Riddle’ (Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019) (Krondorfer, Björn)
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