Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation
Wehrmacht Priests explores the intersection of Roman Catholic faith and German national identity in the crucible of the Second World War. How was it possible, Faulkner Rossi asks, for some 17,000 German priests and seminarians to serve in Hitler's army when Catholic ideology and National Social...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-141 |
| Review of: | Wehrmacht priests (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2015) (Griech-Polelle, Beth A.)
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| Summary: | Wehrmacht Priests explores the intersection of Roman Catholic faith and German national identity in the crucible of the Second World War. How was it possible, Faulkner Rossi asks, for some 17,000 German priests and seminarians to serve in Hitler's army when Catholic ideology and National Socialism seem to have been so incompatible? In particular, how were these men able to wear the uniform, serving Hitler's murderous regime in various capacities, while remaining committed to serving their Catholic communities? Faulkner Rossi seeks to understand why these men decided to serve, how they tried to harmonize their purported role in the military with actual wartime experiences, and how, after the war had ended, these same men justified their service. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw010 |