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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
EAN: 9780300092233
Edition: First Edition. 1 in number line
ISBN: 0300092237
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 01, 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Munster from 1933 until his death in 1946, is renowned for his opposition to Nazism, most notably for his public preaching in 1941 against Hitler's euthanasia project to rid the country of sick, elderly, mentally retarded, and disabled Germans. This provocative and revisionist biographical study of von Galen views him from a different perspective: as a complex figure who moved between dissent and complicity during the Nazi regime, opposing certain elements of National Socialism while choosing to remain silent on issues concerning discrimination, deportation, and the murder of Jews.
Beth Griech-Polelle places von Galen in the context of his times, describing how the Catholic Church reacted to various Nazi policies, how the anti-Catholic legislation of the Kulturkampf shaped the repertoire of resistance tactics of northwestern German Catholics, and how theological interpretations were used to justify resistance and/or collaboration. She reveals how the bishop portrayed Jews and what that depiction meant for Jews living in Nazi Germany. Finally she investigates the creation of the image of von Galen as "Grand Churchman-Resister" and discusses the implications of this for the myth of Catholic conservative "resistance" constructed in post-1945 Germany.
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The author assembles many interesting (if somewhat repetitious) details about the events leading up to Bishop Von Galen's three famous sermons against the Gestapo. Curiously, she gives him very little credit for his bravery and seems to paint him close to a villain for not having done more to stem the anti-semitism of the Nazis and build a resistance movement that would bring down the Nazi government. I waited in vain to hear some mention of the courage of Jewish leaders to stand up to the Nazis ... Read More
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The latest generation of historians who try to represent the Germany of the thirites and forties does not understand this period. Its members totally lack the "feel" of a period only personal experience seems to be able to create. So they are bound to to overlook or underestimate at least three facts which determined what they consider the inexcusable failure of the German people, their spiritual leaders, and their political organizations to rise up against the inhumanities of the Third Reich.
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Griech-Polelle rises above the common finger-pointing brand of scholarship (i.e. Goldhagen et al) that one frequently encounters in the admittedly controversial area of religion in Nazi Germany. With this nuanced and informative study one can see & understand the many forces pulling on von Galen without completely excusing his inaction in the face of the Holocaust. This book will sit comfortably next to the best literature on German life in the Third Reich (for example, Christopher Browning's Ordinary ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
EAN: 9780300092233
Edition: First Edition. 1 in number line
ISBN: 0300092237
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 01, 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press