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Review of Klara Kardos, The Auschwitz Journal: A Catholic Story from the Camps

Review of Klara Kardos, The Auschwitz Journal: A Catholic Story from the Camps

September 28, 2024 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 30 Number 3 (Fall 2024)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Klara Kardos, The Auschwitz Journal: A Catholic Story from the Camps, trans. Fr. Julius D. Leloczky, O.Cist. (Paraclete Press, 2020). 144 Pp. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran…

Review of Fergus Butler-Gallie, Priests de la Resistance! The Loose Canons Who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century

Review of Fergus Butler-Gallie, Priests de la Resistance! The Loose Canons Who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century

September 15, 2021 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 27 Number 3 (September 2021)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 3 (September 2021) Review of Fergus Butler-Gallie, Priests de la Resistance! The Loose Canons Who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century (London: Oneworld Publications, 2020). 273 pages. ISBN: 9781786078308. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle,…

Review of Traude Litzka, The Church’s Help for Persecuted Jews in Nazi Vienna

Review of Traude Litzka, The Church’s Help for Persecuted Jews in Nazi Vienna

June 15, 2021 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 27 Number 2 (June 2021)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Review of Traude Litzka, The Church’s Help for Persecuted Jews in Nazi Vienna, trans. Gerda Joseph (Wien: LIT Verlag, 2018). 159 Pp. ISBN: 978-3-643-91036-3. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran…

Review of Father Chester Fabisiak, S.J., Memories of a Devil: My Life as a Jesuit in Dachau

Review of Father Chester Fabisiak, S.J., Memories of a Devil: My Life as a Jesuit in Dachau

March 1, 2021 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 27 Number 1 (March 2021)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Father Chester Fabisiak, S.J., Memories of a Devil: My Life as a Jesuit in Dachau (Coppell, TX: Dr. Danuta B. Fabisiak, 2018). 430 Pp. ISBN: 978-1732117006. By Beth…

Review of Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

Review of Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

September 1, 2019 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 25 Number 3 (September 2019)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018). 284 Pp. ISBN: 9780674047686. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle,…

Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “Between ‘National Community’ and ‘Milieu’: German Catholics at War, 1939-1945”

March 15, 2019 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in News and Notes, Volume 25 Number 1 (March 2019)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “Between ‘National Community’ and ‘Milieu’: German Catholics at War, 1939-1945,” Contemporary European History 26 no. 3 (August 2017): 421-440. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran University…

Article Note: Giuliana Chamedes, “The Vatican, Nazi-Fascism, and the Making of Transnational Anti-Communism in the 1930s”

March 1, 2018 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in News and Notes, Volume 24 Number 1 (March 2018)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Article Note: Giuliana Chamedes, “The Vatican, Nazi-Fascism, and the Making of Transnational Anti-Communism in the 1930s,” Journal of Contemporary History 51, no. 2 (April 2016): 261-290. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle,…

Article Note: Todd H. Weir, “A European Culture War in the Twentieth Century? Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Bolshevism between Moscow, Berlin, and the Vatican 1922-1933”

March 1, 2018 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in News and Notes, Volume 24 Number 1 (March 2018)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Article Note: Todd H. Weir, “A European Culture War in the Twentieth Century? Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Bolshevism between Moscow, Berlin, and the Vatican 1922-1933,” Journal of Religious History 39, no. 2…

Conference Report: “Synagogue and Church: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust”

March 1, 2018 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in News and Notes, Volume 24 Number 1 (March 2018)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Conference Report: “Synagogue and Church: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust.” The 10th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Pacific Lutheran University, November 1-3, 2017. By…

Review of Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara, eds. and trans., The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen

Review of Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara, eds. and trans., The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen

December 1, 2017 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 23 Number 4 (December 2017)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara, eds. and trans., The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017). Pp. 161….

Review of Jacques Kornberg, The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War

Review of Jacques Kornberg, The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War

December 1, 2015 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 21 Number 4 (December 2015)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) Review of Jacques Kornberg, The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), 405 Pp., ISBN 9781442628281. By Beth…

Review of Sean Brennan, The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949

Review of Sean Brennan, The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949

December 4, 2012 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 18 Number 4 (December 2012)

Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Review of Sean Brennan, The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 (New York, NY: Lexington Books, 2011), 235 Pp. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Bowling Green State…

Review of Erna Putz, ed., Franz Jaegerstaetter: Letters and Writings from Prison

Review of Erna Putz, ed., Franz Jaegerstaetter: Letters and Writings from Prison

June 1, 2011 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 17 Number 2 (June 2011)

ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2011 Review of Erna Putz, ed., Franz Jaegerstaetter: Letters and Writings from Prison, trans. Robert Anthony Krieg (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2009), 252 Pp. ISBN 978-1-57075-826-3. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Bowling Green State University This…

Review of Derek Hastings, Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and the Early Nazi Movement in Munich

Review of Derek Hastings, Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and the Early Nazi Movement in Munich

June 1, 2010 · by Beth A. Griech-Polelle · in Reviews, Volume 16 Number 2 (June 2010)

ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2010 Review of Derek Hastings, Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and the Early Nazi Movement in Munich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 312 pp. ISBN: 0195390245. By Beth Ann Griech-Polelle,…

Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025)

  • Letter from the Editors (Spring 2025)
  • Thomas Großbölting in Memorium
  • Nachruf auf den Historiker Thomas Großbölting
  • “The New Testament is the most anti-Jewish book in the whole world.” Christian Antisemitism in the 20th Century
  • Review of Alexander Lamprecht, Zwischen Seelsorge und Diktatur: Südtirols Kirche in der NS-Zeit
  • Review of Gerlinde von Westphalen, Lady Abbess. Benedicta von Spiegel—Politische Ordensfrau in der NS-Zeit
  • Film Review of Zwischen uns Gott, Directed by Rebecca Hirneise
  • Review of Andreas Pangritz, Die Schattenseite des Christentums. Theologie und Antisemitismus

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