And The Witnesses Were Silent: The Confessing Church And The Persecution Of The Jews

And the Witnesses Were Silent: The Confessing Church and the Persecution of the Jews

Review"Gerlach provides important details for those interested in understanding Christian complicity in the Holocaust."-Choice (Choice Magazine)"Gerlach tenaciously pursues evidence of anti-Jewish attitudes among Confessing Church leaders, and he ties these attitudes to their Christian suppositions. This helps to establish the overlap of Christian and racial antisemitism. It also helps us understand how the anti-Jewish policies of Nazi Germany could evoke so little opposition, so much acceptance, and, in many cases, such ready participation. This book is an important contribution to a very important trend in the historiography of modern Germany."-Robert P. Ericksen, coeditor of Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (Robert P. Ericksen)An endlessly perplexing question of the twentieth century is how