A Requiem for Hitler and Other New Perspectives on the German Church Struggle, by Klaus Scholder (TPB, 1989, $2)
Scholder was "one of the first German church historians, without denying his confession, to begin an integral account of the history of both churches in the Third Reich." The Protestants in 1945 were first to confess their guilt regarding their collaboration with Hitler, but in 1962 Catholics started to publish their own research. "Most publication on the church struggle were not concerned to point out failures, but to justify actions and describe the persecution that had been suffered and the accusations of a regime whose anti-Christian attitude had made it capable of the most monstrous crimes."
This was not enough for Scholder. His research showed church leaders doing anything to keep their power, with only lower leaders or individuals offering any resistance to the Nazi regime. Scholder was a devout Protestant theologian, who insisted Christians learn from their past mistakes, and "fight against the seductions of the present where they were contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ."
His books are still widely in print. You can find this copy on the new non-fiction table, available 1/4. (Later: Theology.)
