Hitler's Personal Prisoner: The Life of Martin Niemöller

This is the first fully researched biography of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984). It charts his life from his...
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Author: Benjamin Ziemann
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Hitler's Personal Prisoner: The Life of Martin Niemöller by Ziemann, Benjamin

Hitler's Personal Prisoner: The Life of Martin Niemöller

$161.38

Hitler's Personal Prisoner: The Life of Martin Niemöller

$161.38
Author: Benjamin Ziemann
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This is the first fully researched biography of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984). It charts his life from his service in the Imperial German Navy, his work for the Inner Mission and as a Protestant pastor in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem from 1931. Niemöller's work as a leading figure of the Confessing Church and his contribution to the conflicts over church policy during the Third Reich are analysed and contextualised. Chapters on the post-war period chart Niemöller's contribution to ecumenism, anti-nuclear pacifism, and his role in rebuilding the West German Protestant Churches.

From 1938 to 1945, Martin Niemöller was detained as 'Hitler's Personal Prisoner' in Nazi concentration camps. Liberated in April 1945, Niemöller was widely hailed as an icon of Christian resistance against the Nazi dictatorship. For many years, the Niemöller legend masked the problematic aspects of his life: his persistent antisemitism, on display even in the post-war period; his nationalism and support of the German war effort even whilst in concentration camp detention; and his disdain for parliamentary democracy. In his biography of the most important twentieth-century German Protestant, Benjamin Ziemann uncovers the 'historical' Niemöller behind the legend of the resistance hero. Carefully situating Niemöller's personal trajectory in his wider social milieu -- from the Imperial Navy to the West German peace movement -- Ziemann probes into core themes of twentieth century German history: militarism, National Socialism, German guilt, and moral reconstruction post-1945.

Author: Benjamin Ziemann, Christine Brocks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/15/2024
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780192862587

About the Author
Benjamin Ziemann, Professor of Modern German History, University of Sheffield

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern Germany at the University of Sheffield. He has gained his PhD from the University of Bielefeld, and has held visiting fellowships at Humboldt University Berlin, the University of York, the University of Jena, Oslo University and Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo.

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