Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis

Type

Book

Authors

Townsend, Tim

ISBN 10

0062298615

ISBN 13

9780062298614

Tags

Germany, Gerecke, Henry, 1961, War criminals -- Religious life -- Germany, Lutheran Church -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, 1945-1946, Military chaplains -- United States -- Biography, World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- Biography, War crime trials -- German

Abstract

Once Adolf Hitler was defeated, U.S. Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke received his most challenging assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial for crimes against humanity. Mission at Nuremberg takes us deep inside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, into the cells of the accused and the courtroom where they answered to the world for their crimes. These twenty-one Nazis had sat at Hitler's right hand; Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Frank, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner were the orchestrators, and in some cases the direct perpetrators, of the most methodical genocide in history.

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