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Moroni and the Swastika - Mormons in Nazi Germany (Paperback)
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Moroni and the Swastika - Mormons in Nazi Germany (Paperback)
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While Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government was persecuting
Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving forty-two small German
religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some
fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi
Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally
rewritten within the confines of the Church's history - for good
reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson's Moroni and the Swastika.
A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full
account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled
collaboration with Hitler's regime, and then eschewed postwar shame
by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and
resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th
Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism's
equivalent of the biblical admonition to ""render unto Caesar,"" a
charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous
doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict,
ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that
protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson
shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by
exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons
emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports.
They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler
Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began.
They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and
liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an
article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels
between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this
collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by
fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons'
courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient
past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult
chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the
twentieth century - and offers new insight into the construction of
historical truth.
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