This author focuses on profound and disturbing historical events, aiming to understand and illuminate the human experience. Their work delves into complex ethical dilemmas and the lasting impact of trauma on individuals and societies. Through meticulous research and insightful analysis, the author offers essential perspectives on humanity's darker chapters and the nature of resilience.
Protestant pastors and Catholic priests served as chaplains in Hitler's military. What role did Christian chaplains play in Nazi crimes? Drawing on a wide array of sources this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.
6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, but this is only half the story. Doris Bergen reveals how the Holocaust extended beyond the Jews to engulf millions of other victims in related programmes of mas-murder. The Nazi killing machine began with the disabled, and went on to target Afro-Germans, Gypsies, non-Jewish Poles, French African soldiers, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexual men and Jehovah's Witnesses. As Nazi Germany conquered more territories and peoples, Hitler's war turned soldiers, police officers and doctors into trained killers, creating a veneer of legitimacy around vicious acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Using the testimonies of both survivors and eyewitnesses, as well as a wealth of rarely seen photographs, Doris Bergen shows the true extent of the catastrophe that overwhelmed Europe during the Second World War, in a gripping story of the lives and deaths of real people.
Implications for Educators, Parents, and Society
Focusing on the intersection of brain development and educational practices, this book offers a concise overview of the latest research relevant to childhood education. It serves as a valuable resource for teacher educators, education students, school psychologists, and practicing teachers, emphasizing effective teaching strategies tailored for both regular and special education settings. The insights provided aim to enhance teaching practices and improve educational outcomes for children and adolescents.
Places the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts, focusing on the two goals that drove the Nazis in their persecution of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and other groups they deemed as undesirables.
Focusing on the 600,000 self-identified 'German Christians,' Doris Bergen examines their collaboration with Nazism, highlighting their efforts to eliminate Jewish influences from Christianity. This group, comprising both laypeople and clergy, rejected the Old Testament and removed Jewish elements from worship. Bergen argues that they held significant positions within the Protestant church despite their agenda being dismissed by Nazi leaders. She also explores their reintegration into church life post-1945 and the influence of women and the concept of spiritual motherhood within their movement.