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The mark of Cain : guilt and denial in the post-war lives of Nazi perpetrators /

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The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons and prison publications to illu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kellenbach, Katharina von, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Moral and ethical aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Genocide > Moral and ethical aspects > Germany.
Holocaust (Christian theology)
Catholic Church > Germany > Clergy.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
RELIGION / General.
Table of Contents:
  • The mark of Cain
  • Guilt confessions and amnesty campaigns
  • Faith under the gallows: spectacles of innocence in WCP Landsberg
  • Cleansed by suffering?: the SS general and the human beast
  • From honorable sacrifices to lonely scapegoats
  • ''Understand my boy this truth about the mistake'': inheriting guilt
  • ''Naturally I will stand by my husband'': marital love and loyalty
  • ''Absolved from the guilt of the past'': memory as burden and as grace.