Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation

Author: Lauren Faulkner Rossi

Between 1939 and 1945, more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of an abhorrent regime. Lauren Faulkner Rossi draws on personal correspondence, official military reports, memoirs, and interviews to present a detailed picture of Catholic priests who served faithfully in the German armed forces in World War II. Most of them failed to see the bitter irony of their predicament.

Hardback

352 pages