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And the Witnesses Were Silent: The Confessing Church and the Persecution of the Jews
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by Wolfgang Gerlach. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 304 pp. $45.00.
As the title of this heavily documented, revised, and abridged dissertation suggests, it is the thesis of this book that the witnesses even in the so-called "Confessing Church" (leaders in the various Lutheran, Evangelical, Reformed, Methodist, and Moravian synods and groups that, unlike the "German Christians," protested that their confessional Christian stance required that they resist the encroachment of the Nazi policies into Church practice and polity) were largely silent not only as the Nazi reign of terror against the Jews of Europe began and reached its climax, but even long afterward. …
