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

USA: Sheed and Ward. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "German Catholics, led by their bishops, displayed heroic resistance to almost every phase of Nazism - its racial mythologies, its neopaganism, its idolatry of the state. Why, then, did German Catholics (along with other Christian groups) lend almost complete support to Hitler's wars of raw aggression and ruthless conquest? Why is there a record of only a handful of Catholic conscientious objectors to Hitler's military adventures? What happened to the German Catholic Peace League, which numbered forty thousand members just prior to the War? These are among the questions answered by Gordon Zahn, the well-known Catholic sociologist, in this timely and fascinating study." - dust jacket. vi, 232 pages. Footnotes. Bibliographical Note. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper, minimal markings to contents, and light trace of foxing to top edge otherwise book clean, bright and tight with light wear. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A quality vintage example of this important study. Kehr & Langmaid 1974, Weiner Library Cat. 7 #2480, Laska 429. ; Dust Jacket Design; 8vo .