TY - BOOK AU - Faulkner Rossi,Lauren TI - Wehrmacht priests: Catholicism and the Nazi war of annihilation SN - 9780674286382 AV - BX1536 .F38 2015eb U1 - 282/.4309044 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Catholic Church KW - Germany KW - History KW - 1933-1945 KW - Clergy KW - Église catholique KW - Allemagne KW - Histoire KW - fast KW - Priests KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - Catholic KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Military KW - World War II KW - Armed Forces KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 CATHOLIC BISHOPS AND CATHOLIC YOUTH IN GERMANY AFTER THE GREAT WAR --; 2 PASTORAL CARE IN THE WEHRMACHT --; 3 PRIESTS AND SEMINARIANS IN THE WEHRMACHT --; 4 RELIGION, NATIONALISM, AND WHY PRIESTS WENT TO WAR --; 5 THE GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE REALITY OF DEFEATED GERMANY --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX 1. German Church Provinces, Dioceses, and Bishops in the Third Reich --; APPENDIX 2. April 1944 Overview of Catholic Priests, Members of Religious Orders, Seminarians, and Theologians in Military Service for Greater Germany (Including Austria and the Sudetenland) --; APPENDIX 3. Chaplain Rankings and Equivalents --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX N2 - Lauren Faulkner Rossi plumbs the moral justifications of Catholic priests who served willingly and faithfully in the German army in World War II. She probes the Church's accommodations with Hitler's regime, its fierce but often futile attempts to preserve independence, and the shortcomings of Church doctrine in the face of total war and genocide UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=973839 ER -