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Shaken by military defeat and economic depression after War World I, Germans sought to restore their nationÆs dignity and power. In this context the National Socialist Party, with its promise of a revivified Germany, drew supporters. Among the most zealous were a number of Catholic clergymen known as \u201cbrown priests\u201d who volunteered as...

Erna Becker-Kohen (1906¿1987), a German Catholic of Jewish heritage, survived on the run in Hitler¿s Germany. Martina Cucchiara is Assistant Professor of History at Bluffton University in Ohio. Esther-Maria N¿le is the granddaughter of Erna Becker-Kohen. She studied geography at the University of Cologne. Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., is James J. Kenneally Distinguished Professor of History at Stonehill College. He is author of Hitler¿s Priests: Ca...

Erna Becker-Kohen (1906¿1987), a German Catholic of Jewish heritage, survived on the run in Hitler¿s Germany. Martina Cucchiara is Assistant Professor of History at Bluffton University in Ohio. Esther-Maria N¿le is the granddaughter of Erna Becker-Kohen. She studied geography at the University of Cologne. Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., is James J. Kenneally Distinguished Professor of History at Stonehill College. He is author of Hitler¿s Priests: Ca...

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Examines the history of antisemitism in the European Christian churches

Introduces the principal clergymen who participated in the Nazi movement and examines their motives. This title details their advocacy of National Socialism and explores the consequences of their political activism.

Ecologists have always believed, at least to a certain extent, that physiological mechanisms serve to underpin ecological patterns. However, their importance has traditionally been at best underestimated and at worst ignored, with physiological variation being dismissed as either an irrelevance or else as random noise/error. Spicer and Gaston make a convincing argument that the precise physiology does matter!In contrast to previous works which...

An essential collection of a highly original American poet

In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West Coast Beat movement. Now, more than forty years late...

When Nazism swept Germany, how did religious leaders respond to attacks not only on their fellow citizens and their government but on their faith as well? Kevin Spicer juxtaposes Catholicism and Nazism.