Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany

While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty—two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter—day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and ...