Original Title: Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition
Hardcover with jacket,
640 pages,
15.0 x 22.7 cm,
5.9 x 8.9 in.
ISBN: 978-3-421-04712-0
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Publishing House:
DVA Sachbuch
Date of publication:
August 26, 2019
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The first comprehensive biography of one of the major figures in the last century
Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892 – 1984) is known as one of the initiators of the Confessing Church and for his speeches after 1945 about German guilt. Yet as a student he was active in various völkisch and anti-Semitic parties and associations and in 1933 welcomed the Nazi accession to power. Even after 1945 his animosity towards Jews was repeatedly apparent.
Benjamin Ziemann has closely assessed all available source material and reconstructed the biograph of a very vocal Church politician and nationalist who rejected the Weimar Republic and Adenauer's policy of integration with the West as much as the party state of the Federal Republic. In 1945, Niemöller turned to pacifism – and yet his attitudes remained very much those of the imperial naval officer he once was.
This life, packed as it was with dramatic moments, contradictions and personal crises, is a vivid reflection of the upheavals and continuities of 20th century German history.
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