German Catholics and Hitler's Wars: A Study in Social Control - Couverture souple

Zahn, Gordon C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 026801017X ISBN 13 : 9780268010171

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1988

Synopsis

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, nearly forty thousand German Catholics were involved in the German Catholic Peace League, a movement that caused many people in various countries to seriously reconsider the dimension of pacifism in their faith. During the course of the War, however, many of these same German Catholics raised no serious objection to serving in Germany's armies or swearing allegiance to Adolph Hitler.

First published in 1962, German Catholics and Hitler's Wars created a furor, ultimately causing a serious reevaluation of church-state relationships and, in particular, of the morality of war. This work began as an attempt to understand the demise of the German Catholic Peace League. But because of various factors, including the destruction of vital records, Gordon C. Zahn began to consider the behavior of German Catholics in general and the evidence of their almost total conformity to the war demands of the Nazi regime. Using sociological analysis, he argues convincingly for the existence of a super-effective system of social controls, and of a selection between the competing values of Catholicism and nationalism. Although Zahn never speculates, conclusions are inescapable, chief among them that the traditional Catholic doctrine of the "just war" has ceased to be operative for Catholics in the modern world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gordon C. Zahn (1918-2007) was professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and former national director for the Center on Conscience and War.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 026801017X
• ISBN 13: 9780268010171
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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