Hitler came for Niemoeller : the Nazi War against religion / by Leo Stein ; foreword by Norman Vincent Peale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Leo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984.

Niemöller, Martin.

Lutheran Church--Germany--Clergy--Biography.

Lutheran Church.

Germany.

Clergy.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Pelican edition.

Place of Publication:

Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub., 2003.

Summary:

When Pastor Martin Niemoeller was first arrested in 1937 for his vocal opposition to Hitler's Third Reich policies, he was Der Fuehrer's personal prisoner, and from there, the decorated World War I U-boat captain began a descent into a hellish existence the world has not since seen. This book, first published in 1942, contains the account of Neimoeller's face-to-face discussions with Hitler, and tells the story of his eight-year imprisonment and his struggle against the greatest killing bureaucracy of the twentieth century.

Contents:

I. My Meeting with Niemoeller 17

II. Arrested by the Gestapo 25

III. My Arrival at Moabit Prison 32

IV. Niemoeller at Moabit 52

V. Niemoeller Meets Hitler 77

VI. Hitler, "The Savior of Mankind" 85

VII. Niemoeller's Courage in Prison 93

VIII. Friend of the Friendless 105

IX. Niemoeller on Anti-Semitism 115

X. The Brotherhood of Man 124

XI. Niemoeller Views the Nazi Philosophy 131

XII. Niemoeller on the Nazi Creed 139

XIII. Religion Is Not Dead in Germany 155

XIV. In the Hands of the Gestapo 170

XV. Death Hitler's Only Mercy 183

XVI. Together at Sachsenhausen 205

XVII. Would Hitler Have Laughed? 216

XVIII. "Tell the World"

Niemoeller 226

Appendix A Hitler on Religion: Excerpt from The Voice of Destruction 239

Appendix B Official Report of the Nazi War on Religion by William Donovan, Director of the OSS 253.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : F.H. Revell, 1942.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336).

ISBN:

158980063X

OCLC:

51178302