Henry Burkhardt and Lds Realpolitik in Communist East Germany

by Raymond Kuehne

When the Soviet army occupied eastern Germany at the end of World War II, more than 6,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fell under the control of the totalitarian and openly atheistic regime of the German Democratic Republic. Due to the relative isolation of the LDS Church in East Germany, a young missionary, Henry Burkhardt, became the official repre­sentative of the church to the communist government, a position...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607811499
• ISBN13: 9781607811497
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher