Bishop Bell and the trial of German war criminals: a moral history.

Lawson, Tom (2008) Bishop Bell and the trial of German war criminals: a moral history. Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 21 (2). pp. 324-348. ISSN 0932-9951

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Abstract

This paper makes a conscious "moral" and "historical" confrontation with Bishop Bell opposition to several war crimes in connection with the defeat of Germany in 1945. He argues that, as persistently However, Bell had used for the victims of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, he was now guilty of not acting in the interests of those victims, but in favor of the dubious claims of a number of those involved directly in the mass murder were. This represented a substantial miscarriage of justice dar. But that was no accident. Bell hanging on an opinion that differed too naive between the Nazis and those who a different a Christian Germany represented. It was the "legitimacy" of that other Germany, not least because of the danger of Soviet communism, what was most important to him now. The danger of this opinion was that they brought the bishop in questionable arguments and a controversial company, and that they contributed nothing to encourage a clear public commitment to the fate of the Jews in occupied Europe.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Rough translation of journal title: Contemporary Church History
Subjects:	V100 History by period V300 History by topic V600 Theology and Religious studies
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	14 Oct 2013 15:13
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:22
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/13972

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