Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he
enlisted as an army chaplain during World War II. At the close of
the European theater, Gerecke received his most challenging
-assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one
imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial for crimes against humanity.
Detailed, incisive and emotionally charged, Mission at Nuremberg
unearths groundbreaking new research and compelling first-hand
accounts to take us deep inside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice,
into the very cells of the accused, and the courtroom where they
answered to the world for their crimes. These twenty-one Nazis had
sat at the right hand of Adolf Hitler: Hermann Goering, Albert
Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Frank and Ernst Kaltenbrunner were the
orchestrators of the most methodical genocide in history. As the
drama leading to the court's final judgments unfolds, Townsend
brings Henry Gerecke's impossible moral quandary to life. As he
worked to form compassionate relationships with these men, how
could he preach the gospel of mercy, knowing full well the
devastating nature of the atrocities they had committed? And as the
day came when he had to escort each of these men to the gallows,
what comfort could he offer--and what promises of salvation could
he make--to evil itself?
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