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The Mark of Cain - Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators (Hardcover)
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The Mark of Cain - Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators (Hardcover)
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The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that
contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past.
Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy
and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs,
sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and
spiritual struggles of perpetrators after the war. These documents
provide intimate insights into the self-reflection and
self-perception of perpetrators. As Germany looks back on more than
sixty years of passionate debate about political, personal and
legal guilt, its ongoing engagement with the legacy of perpetration
has transformed its culture and politics. In many post-genocidal
societies, it falls to clergy and religious officials (in addition
to the courts) to negotiate and create a path for individuals
beyond the atrocities of the past. German clergy brought the
Christian message of guilt and forgiveness into the internment
camps where Nazi functionaries awaited prosecution at the hands of
Allied military tribunals and various national criminal courts, or
served out their sentences. The loving willingness to forgive and
forget displayed towards his errant child by the father in the
parable of the Prodigal Son became the paradigm central to
Germany's rehabilitation and reintegration of Nazi perpetrators.
The problem with Luke's parable in this context, however, is that
perpetrators did not ask for forgiveness. Most agents of state
crimes felt innocent. Von Kellenbach proposes the story of the mark
of Cain as a counter narrative. In contrast to the Prodigal Son,
who is quickly forgiven and welcomed back into the house of the
father, the fratricide Cain is charged to rebuild his life on the
basis of open communication about the past. The story of the
Prodigal Son equates forgiveness with forgetting; Cain's story
links redemption with remembrance and suggests a strategy of
critical engagement with perpetrators.
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