Dieser Autor konzentriert sich auf tiefgreifende und beunruhigende historische Ereignisse mit dem Ziel, die menschliche Erfahrung zu verstehen und zu beleuchten. Seine Arbeit befasst sich mit komplexen ethischen Dilemmata und den bleibenden Auswirkungen von Traumata auf Individuen und Gesellschaften. Durch sorgfältige Forschung und aufschlussreiche Analyse bietet der Autor wesentliche Einblicke in die dunkleren Kapitel der Menschheitsgeschichte und die Natur der Widerstandsfähigkeit.
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.