The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence - In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958

George Bell was one of the most significant British church leaders of the mid-20th century and in many ways he came to define the involvement of British church people with the issues which arose from the Third Reich. Gerhard Leibholz, a brother-in-law of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was one of the most senior German lawyers of the period, a refugee from Nazism who would become a founding father of the new constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. The two figures first encountered each other in the context of dictatorship and exile and in a brilliant, sustained collaboration over many years they fashioned a vigorous moral response to the crises of Nazism, Soviet communism, total war and cold war. This volume contributes fundamentally to our understanding of the ethical, religious, legal and political debates which Hitler''s regime provoked. It also brings to life a vivid picture of the realities of exile and the networks of support which were active internationally in the great refugee crisis of these momentous years.With its wealth of primary source material, previously unavailable in English, this book is an important contribution to the historiography of the Third Reich and will be of great value to scholars and students of Nazism and international history.>

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• Authors: Andrew Chandler, Gerhard Ringshausen
• Assisted by: Andrew Chandler (Editor), Gerhard Ringshausen (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781474257664
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-5766-4
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Selected Letters and Papers of; The Selected Letters and Papers of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester; Selected Letters and Papers of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, Fascism & Nazism, ecumenism, c 1950 to c 1959, Far-right political ideologies and movements, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), C 1945 To C 1960, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General