Benjamin Ziemann

Hitler's Personal Prisoner (eBook, PDF)

The Life of Martin Niemöller
Übersetzer: Brocks, Christine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first fully researched biography of Martin Niem?ller (1892-1984). It charts his life from his service in the Imperial German Navy, his work for the Inner Mission and as a Protestant pastor in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem from 1931. Niem?ller's work as a leading figure of the Confessing Church and his contribution to the conflicts over church policy during the Third Reich are analysed and contextualised. Chapters on the post-war period chart Niem?ller's contribution to ecumenism, anti-nuclear pacifism, and his role in rebuilding the West German Protestant Churches. From 1938 to 1945, Martin Niem?ller was detained as 'Hitler's Personal Prisoner' in Nazi concentration camps. Liberated in April 1945, Niem?ller was widely hailed as an icon of Christian resistance against the Nazi dictatorship. For many years, the Niem?ller legend masked the problematic aspects of his life: his persistent antisemitism, on display even in the post-war period; his nationalism and support of the German war effort even whilst in concentration camp detention; and his disdain for parliamentary democracy. In his biography of the most important twentieth-century German Protestant, Benjamin Ziemann uncovers the 'historical' Niem?ller behind the legend of the resistance hero. Carefully situating Niem?ller's personal trajectory in his wider social milieu -- from the Imperial Navy to the West German peace movement -- Ziemann probes into core themes of twentieth century German history: militarism, National Socialism, German guilt, and moral reconstruction post-1945.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192676856
• Artikelnr.: 69499948

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern Germany at the University of Sheffield. He has gained his PhD from the University of Bielefeld, and has held visiting fellowships at Humboldt University Berlin, the University of York, the University of Jena, Oslo University and Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo.