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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-1945. Martyr, thinker, man of resistance . By Schlingensiepen Ferdinand . (Trans. by Isabel Best of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-1945. Eine Biographie, München: C. H. Beck, 2006.) Pp. xxix+439 incl 45 ills. London-New York : T&T Clark , 2010. £19.99. 978 0 567 03400 7
Bishop George Bell. House of Lords speeches and correspondence with Rudolf Hess . Edited by Raina Peter . Pp. xv+225. Oxford-Bern : Peter Lang , 2009. £32 (paper). 978 3 03911 895 3
Confronting the Nazi war on Christianity. The Kulturkampf newsletters, 1936-1939 . Edited and translated by Bonney Richard . (Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, 4.) Pp. ix+580 incl. frontispiece and 4 ills. Oxford-Bern : Peter Lang , 2009. £50. 978 3 03911 904 2 ; 1661 1985
Although so much of the historiography of the twentieth-century Church still clings doggedly to national categories, the relationship between German Christians inside the Third Reich and their friends and allies in the English-speaking world persists in the minds of scholars in those same countries. This is surely as it should be. These three books present distinctive aspects of the matter. Two are published by that distinctively, and authentically, international house, Peter Lang in Bern.
Ferdinand Schlingensiepen is a German pastor and ecumenist and a leading light in the International Bonhoeffer Society. He spent much of his...