Nuremberg Trial
Tim Townsend, a journalist of religious news, is planning to write a new book featuring the life of an U.S. Army chaplain who ministered to Nazi war criminals, some of the most notorious men in history. The new book will be titled, Mission At Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazi.
The army chaplain who will be featured by Townsend, is Henry Gerecke. The author explained to CP how he had developed an interest in this particular figure: "I was doing a story for the paper about chaplains, the military and the program that the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod had just started that year called Operation Barnabus,"
In his research for the book, Townsend was astounded at the language of the letters that Nazis had written to the Lutheran pastor expressing “love” for him. Gerecke even ministered, prayed with an even gave communion to many of the World War II criminals.
Overall however, it was very difficult to find sufficient information on an unknown individual who was part of one of the most significant events in world history.
HarperCollins will be publishing Mission At Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazi on March 11th Tuesday.
