ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011 Article Note: Malgorzata Rajtar, “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Germany: Reconfiguration of Identity,” Religion, State and Society 38 no. 4 (December 2010): 401-416. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia The Jehovah’s Witnesses suffered…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011 Conference Report: “Christianity During the Era of Total War,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 7, 2011, Boston, MA. Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto This session, sponsored by the…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011 Conference Report: “German Catholics negotiate National Socialism: Three Case Studies,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 7, 2011, Boston, MA. By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University Sponsored by the American…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011 Conference Announcement: Secularization and the Transformation of Religion in the U.S. and Germany after 1945, March 17-19, 2011, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University At first glance,…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011 Conference Announcement: Fourth Annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference, March 17-19, 2011, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. By Robert Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University Robert Ericksen, one of our ACCH editors and the Kurt Mayer Chair in…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Letter from the editors: December 2010 Greetings for the holiday season and welcome to the December 2010 issue of the ACCH Quarterly! The reviews, reports, and announcements here deal with topics close…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Berlin: 1932 – 1933: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 12, ed. Larry L. Rasmussen, trans. Isabel Best, David Higgins, and Douglas W. Stott (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009), 680 pp….
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Review of Ralf Retter, Zwischen Protest und Propaganda: Die Zeitschrift “Junge Kirche“ im Dritten Reich (Munich: Allitera Verlag, 2009), 387 pp. ISBN: 978-3-86906-066-8. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University College Ralf Retter’s study of…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Review of Jürgen Elvert and Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora, eds., Kulturwissenschaften und Nationalsozialismus. Historische Mitteilungen im Auftrage der Ranke-Gesellschaft, 72 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2008), 922 pp. ISBN: 978-3-515-09282-1. By Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Review of Emmy Barth, An Embassy Besieged: The Story of a Christian Community in Nazi Germany (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, Plough Publishing, 2010), 306 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1-60899-879-1. By John S. Conway,…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Review of Richard Bonney, ed. and trans., Confronting the Nazi War on Christianity: The Kulturkampf Newsletters, 1936-1939. Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, Vol. 4 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009),…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 More reviews of Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 384 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-12531-2. Susannah Heschel’s book about Walter Grundmann and…
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Article Note: Caitlin Carenen, “The American Christian Palestine Committee, the Holocaust, and Mainstream Protestant Zionism, 1938-1948,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 24 no. 2 (Fall 2010): 273-296. By John S. Conway, University of British…