Chapter 5 Between God and Hitler: German Military Chaplains and the Crimes of the Third Reich

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. PART I – The Perpetrators: Theology and Practice
5. Chapter 1 Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Armenians, Turks, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 21
6. Chapter 2 Genocide, Religion, and Gerhard Kittel: Protestant Theologians Face the Third Reich 62
7. Chapter 3 When Jesus Was an Aryan: The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda 79
8. Chapter 4 A Pure Conscience Is Good Enough: Bishop von Galen and Resistance to Nazism 106
9. Chapter 5 Between God and Hitler: German Military Chaplains and the Crimes of the Third Reich 123
10. Chapter 6 Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda 139
11. Chapter 7 The Churches and the Genocide in the East African Great Lakes Region 161
12. Chapter 8 Kosovo Mythology and the Bosnian Genocide 180
13. II. Survival: Rescuers and Victims
14. Chapter 9 The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children into Muslim Households As a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide 207
15. Chapter 10 Transcending Boundaries: Hungarian Roman Catholic Religious Women and the “Persecuted Ones” 222
16. Chapter 11 Denial and Defiance in the Work of Rabbi Regina Jonas 243
17. Chapter 12 A Personal Account 259
18. III. Aftermath: Politics, Faith, and Representation
19. Chapter 13 Zionist and Israeli Attitudes Toward the Armenian Genocide 265
20. Chapter 14 Faith, Religious Practices, and Genocide: Armenians and Jews in France following World War I and II 289
21. Chapter 15 Orthodox Jewish Thought in the Wake of the Holocaust: Tamim Pa’alo of 1947 316
22. Chapter 16 Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust: The Responses of Two Generations 342
23. Chapter 17 The Journey to Poland 350
24. AFTERTHOUGHT Some Reflections on Genocide, Religion, and Modernity 372
25. CONTRIBUTORS 384
26. INDEX 389