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Author Townsend, Tim (Journalist)

Title Mission at Nuremberg : an American Army chaplain and the trial of the Nazis / Tim Townsend.

Publication Info. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  341.69 TOWNSEND    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  341.6 TOWNSEND    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  341.69 TOW    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  341.69 TOWNSEND    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  341.69 TOW    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  341.6902 TOWNSEND    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-369) and index.
Contents Death by hanging -- Zion -- God of war -- This too shall pass -- The sun's light failed -- Judas window -- His soul touches the stars -- Book of Numbers -- The brand of Cain -- Wine and blood -- It was you who invited me here.
Summary Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation, and the essence of humanity. Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he enlisted as am Army chaplain during World War II. As two of his three sons faced danger and death on the battlefield, Gerecke tended to the battered bodies and souls of wounded and dying GIs outside London. At the war's end, when other soldiers were coming home, Gerecke was recruited for the most difficult engagement of his life: ministering to the twenty-one Nazis leaders awaiting trial at Nuremberg. Based on scrupulous research and first-hand accounts, including interviews with still-living participants and featuring sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, Mission at Nuremberg takes us inside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, into the cells of the accused and the courtroom where they faced their crimes. As the drama leading to the court's final judgments unfolds, Tim Townsend brings to life the developing relationship between Gerecke and Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and other imprisoned Nazis as they awaited trial. Powerful and harrowing, Mission at Nuremberg offers a fresh look at one most horrifying times in human history, probing difficult spiritual and ethical issues that continue to hold meaning, forcing us to confront the ultimate moral question: Are some men so evil they are beyond redemption?
Subject Gerecke, Henry, -1961.
War criminals -- Religious life -- Germany.
Lutheran Church -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
Military chaplains -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- Biography.
War crime trials -- Germany.
ISBN 9780061997198
0061997196
9780061997204 (paperback)
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