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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
400Overview
Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he enlisted as am Army chaplain during World War II. As two of his three sons faced danger and death on the battlefield, Gerecke tended to the battered bodies and souls of wounded and dying GIs outside London. At the war’s end, when other soldiers were coming home, Gerecke was recruited for the most difficult engagement of his life: ministering to the twenty-one Nazis leaders awaiting trial at Nuremburg.
Based on scrupulous research and first-hand accounts, including interviews with still-living participants and featuring sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, Mission at Nuremberg takes us inside the Nuremburg Palace of Justice, into the cells of the accused and the courtroom where they faced their crimes. As the drama leading to the court’s final judgments unfolds, Tim Townsend brings to life the developing relationship between Gerecke and Hermann Georing, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and other imprisoned Nazis as they awaited trial.
Powerful and harrowing, Mission at Nuremberg offers a fresh look at one most horrifying times in human history, probing difficult spiritual and ethical issues that continue to hold meaning, forcing us to confront the ultimate moral question: Are some men so evil they are beyond redemption?
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780061997198 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 03/11/2014 |
Pages: | 400 |
Sales rank: | 1,232,574 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
1 Death by Hanging 1
2 Zion 19
3 God of War 72
4 This Too Shall Pass 94
5 The Sun's Light Failed 145
6 Judas Window 179
7 His Soul Touches the Stars 235
8 Book of Numbers 279
9 The Brand of Cain 339
10 Wine and Blood 385
11 It Was You Who Invited Me Here 442
Epilogue 471
Acknowledgments 477
Source Notes 483
Bibliography 565