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Author Lawson, Tom.

Title The Church of England and the Holocaust : Christianity, memory and Nazism / Tom Lawson
Published Woodbridge, England : Boydell, 2006

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 MELB  940.5318 Law/Coe  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 207 pages ; 24 cm
Series Studies in modern British religious history ; 12
Studies in modern British religious history ; 12
Contents Introduction: contexts -- Part 1.: Responses -- 1. The struggle for religious freedom : the myth of Martin Niemoller and the Anglican understanding of Nazism -- 2. A crusade to deliver our fellow men from a sub-human barbarism: Nazism and war in the Anglican imagination -- 3. Burning indignation: the Church of England and the murder of Europe's Jews -- Part 2.: Memories -- 4. The trades union of bishops: The Church of England and the search for a usable past as the beginning of the Cold War -- 5. To whom vengeance belongeth: the Church of England, Christianity and opposition to war crimes trials -- Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: (pages 181-202) and index
Subject Church of England -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
Christianity and antisemitism.
Antisemitism -- Great Britain.
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