Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation

by Lauren Faulkner Rossi

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler's Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of an abhorrent regime. Lauren Faulkner Rossi draws on personal correspondence, official military reports, memoirs, and interviews to present a detailed picture of Catholic priests who served faithfully in the German armed forces in the Second World War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674598482
• ISBN13: 9780674598485
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"