Read Mission at Nuremberg Online
Authors: Tim Townsend
Andrus's request for, 96â97, 103â5, 117
assignment to Nuremberg prison, 7â8, 113, 117
attitude toward the military, 66
birth of, 15, 24
call to the ministry, 23â26
Chaplain Corps, volunteering for, 5â7, 45â50
at Christ Lutheran Church, 17â20, 41, 42â43
at Concordia, 14, 15, 16, 31, 292
Dachau visit of, 8, 94â95
death of, 305â8
debriefing after Nuremberg assignment, 291
dress style of, 18â19
early life of, 24â26
at Emmaus, 16, 17
enlistment in the army, 31
evangelization of, 39â42, 80
forgiveness, idea of, 287, 288
at Good Shepherd Church, 32â33, 34, 37, 40â41
Hank in Frankfurt hospital and, 290â91, 293â94
Hank's visits to father, 77â79, 91â92
at Harvard University's Chaplains School, 6â7, 48â50, 61, 65
ministerial training of, 14, 16â17
missionary work of, 20, 31â45, 299â305
at Mögeldorf church, 11â12, 117, 159â60, 184, 190â91, 235
Ninety-Eighth General Hospital assignment, 62â72, 74â86
at Nuremberg prison, 140â41, 143, 164â65, 252â53, 258â59, 275â76
arrival, 137â38, 140
chapel services, 158â59, 169â70, 181â82
Christmas service, 186â90
defendants' letter to wife, 223â25, 343â44
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Doenitz and, 165, 167
executions and, 270â77
family and family visits to defendants, 159, 190, 233â38
Fritzsche and, 8, 176â77, 179, 181â82, 186â87, 223â25
Goering and, 4, 143â44, 152â53, 255, 259â61, 264â69, 274, 275â76, 278, 291, 348
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Hess and, 140â41, 143, 152â53
inquiries from German clergy, 226
Keitel and, 4, 9â12, 234, 253â54, 272â73, 276
Raeder and, 167, 168
Ribbentrop and, 9, 10, 168, 169, 235, 253â54, 271â72
Rosenberg and, 166â67, 259, 273â74
Sauckel and, 170â71, 174â75, 188, 253â54, 275
Schacht and, 169â70
Schirach and, 11â12, 176, 179, 181â82, 223â25
Speer and, 175, 176, 181â82
Nuremberg trial and, 157, 158, 159, 164â65, 243
ordination of, 17
postwar life of, 293â94, 297â305
postwar speaking engagements of, 292â93, 294, 298
promotion to captain, 75
promotion to major, 290
radio broadcasting of, 17, 42, 46
at St. John's Academy, 26â30
in St. Louis, 5â6, 13â47, 291â92
war souvenirs, 291
at Zion Lutheran Church, 20â21
Gerecke, Henry “Hank,” 87
in the Aleutian Islands, 5, 31, 44
birth of, 16
early life of, 16â20, 43
enlistment in the army, 44â45
in Frankfurt hospital, 290â91, 293â94
marriage and family with Millie, 73, 293â94
Paris leave, 104
VE Day, 85
visits to father, 77â79, 91â92
Gerecke, Herman, 15, 19, 23â24, 25â26, 31
Gerecke, Leonora “Nora,” 15, 24, 31
Gerecke, Louis, 23
Gerecke, Mildred “Millie,” 73, 293â94
Gerecke, Roy David, 5, 17, 20, 45
Gerecke, William, Jr., 23â24
Gerecke, William “Wilhelm,” 22â23
Gerecke Memorial Cross (Chester, Illinois), 309â12
German Earth and Stone Works, 198â99
German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 27â28, 45
German Imperial Navy, 165â66, 167â68
German Labor Front, 121
German POWs, 81, 85, 88â89, 118, 119, 121, 202, 208, 209
Gestapo, 129, 130, 179, 193
Gibson, Ella E., 54â55
Gilbert, Gustave, 123, 137, 186, 189, 216â17, 219, 245
Ginsberg, Rabbi, 84
Goebbels, Joseph, 133, 170, 178
Goering, Carin, 145
Goering, Edda, 145â48, 235, 236, 238, 254â55, 277â78
Goering, Emmy Sonnemann, 145â48, 150
prison visits with husband, 190, 235â36, 238â39, 254â55
suicide of husband, 268â69, 277â78
Goering, Franny, 144
Goering, Heinrich, 144
Goering, Hermann
background of, 144â45
capture of, 149â51
at Mondorf camp, 151â52
in Nazi Party, 145â51
at Nuremberg prison, 102, 259â61
Christmas service, 187, 189â90
family visits, 190, 235â36, 238â39, 254â55
Gerecke and, 4, 143â44, 152â53, 255, 259â61, 264â69, 274, 275â76, 278, 291, 348
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Holy Communion and, 260â61, 264â65, 267â68
suicide notes of, 266â67, 268â69
suicide of, 3, 4, 265â67, 269â70, 275
Nuremberg trial, 101, 133, 155, 222â23, 226â27
Nuremberg trial verdict, 241â42, 243â44, 246
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 233
Goldensohn, Leon, 123, 215, 216â18
Gone with the Wind
(movie), 146
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (St. Louis), 32â33, 34, 37, 40â41
Gordon, Eileen, 297â98, 299, 301
Gordonville, Missouri, 20â23
Gottgläubig,
166â67, 265
Grand Hotel (Nuremberg), 160â61, 162, 226
Great Commission, 39â40
Great Depression, 20, 33â34, 36, 43â44
Greek-Macedonian Empire, 106
Grosse, Oliver, 45
Grossmith, Frederick,
The Cross and the Swastika,
176
Gusen concentration camp, 196, 198, 200, 205, 208â9
“GZY” rings, 63â64
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Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 49
Hager, William, 22
Hague Convention, 125â26
Hannibal, 268
Harris Teachers College (St. Louis), 16
Hartheim Euthanasia Centre, 200
Harvard University's Chaplains School, 6â7, 48â50, 61, 65
Hauptmarkt (Nuremberg), 111, 113
Haushofer, Karl, 141, 142, 227
Heim, Aribert, 199â200
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, 108
Hermann Goering Works, 145
Hermitage, England, 63, 68â72, 74â86
Hermitage,
USS, 201
Herzberger, F. W., 31â32, 306
Hess, Bede, 296
Hess, Rudolf, 140â43
background of, 141
in Nazi Party, 141â42
at Nuremberg prison, 152â53, 234, 277
Gerecke and, 140â41, 143, 152â53
Nuremberg trial, 140, 142, 155, 227â28
Nuremberg trial verdict, 244
Hess, Wolf, 234
Heydrich, Reinhard, 147, 196, 197
Himmler, Heinrich
Goering and, 222, 223, 242
Hoess and, 216â17
Kaltenbrunner and, 193, 194â95, 211
Keitel and, 231
Hines, Hugh, 297
Hitler, Adolf, 111â13, 247
Doenitz and, 165
Frank and, 191, 228
Goering and, 145, 146, 147â49, 222â23
Hess and, 141â42
Keitel and, 10, 231
Raeder and, 167â68
Ribbentrop and, 168â69, 228
Sauckel and, 171â74
Schirach and, 180â81
Speer and, 175â76
Hitler Youth, 176, 180â81, 282
Hodge, Orville Enoch, 302â4, 308
Hoess, Rudolf, 211â20
Höllriegel, Alois, 199
Holls, Henry “Woods,” 18, 32â33, 37
Holocaust, 218â19
Holy Communion, 11, 164, 261â64
Goering and, 260â61, 264â65, 267â68
Keitel and, 253â54
Ribbentrop and, 169, 253â54
Sauckel and, 174, 253â54
Hoover, Herbert, 31
Hurst, Cecil, 124â25
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Imrie, Matthew, 295
Inside the Third Reich
(Speer), 233
Inter-Allied Commission on the Punishment of War Crimes, 124
international criminal law, 125â26
International Military Tribunal, 7, 154â58, 225â33
adjournment, 233, 240
basic structure, 134â35
Christmas break, 183â84
Doenitz at, 101, 166, 243, 245
final statements, 226â33
Frank at, 101, 228â30
Fritzsche at, 7â8, 133, 177, 223, 227, 232, 242â43, 244
Gerecke's prayer, 157
Goering at, 101, 133, 155, 222â23, 226â27, 241â44, 246
Hess at, 140, 142, 155, 227â28, 244
Jackson's opening statement, 156â57
Jodl at, 133, 155â56, 246
Kaltenbrunner at, 194â95, 198, 199, 209â11, 217â18
Keitel at, 3â4, 133, 230â32, 244, 245â47
opening of, 154â57
Raeder at, 243, 245, 246
Ribbentrop at, 101, 227, 228, 242, 244
Sauckel at, 155â56, 230
Schacht at, 133, 242â43
Schirach at, 223, 245
selection of site, 115
Speer at, 223, 244â45
Streicher at, 101, 157
U.S. case, 157â58
verdicts, 240â45
war crimes planning, 125â36
International Treaty for the Renunciation of War, 126, 129
In the Face of the Gallows
(Frank), 233
Isaiah, 221, 279, 297, 312
Isar River, 289
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Jackson, Robert, 129â35, 156â57, 183, 241
Jahwist (Yahwist), 248â49
Janowska concentration camp, 281
Jefferson Barracks, 37, 66
Jewish quarter (Nuremberg), 108, 109, 110â11
Jewish Welfare Committee, 293
Jews, scapegoating of the, 109â12
Jodl, Alfred, 85, 148
death by hanging, 275
at Nuremberg prison, 223, 254
Nuremberg trial, 133, 155â56
Nuremberg trial verdict, 246
John, Gospel of, 262â63
Johnson, Harold, 266
Joshua, 52
“Judas window,” 120
Justice at Nuremberg
(Conot), 288
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Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 170, 193â94
background of, 193
death by hanging, 273â74
in Nazi Party, 193â95, 197, 210â11
Nuremberg trial, 194â95, 197, 198, 199, 209â11, 217â18
Karl IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 110â11
Keitel, Karl-Heinz, 247
Keitel, Lisa, 246
Keitel, Wilhelm
background of, 10â11
capture of, 3
at Mondorf camp, 100
at Nuremberg prison, 234
appeals form of execution, 245â47
death by hanging, 1â4, 9â10, 12, 272â73, 276
Gerecke and, 4, 9â12, 234, 253â54, 272â73, 276
Nuremberg trial, 3â4, 133, 230â32
Nuremberg trial verdict, 244, 245â47
Keller, George, 22
Kelley, Douglas, 123, 209
Kellogg, Frank B., 126, 129
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 126, 129
Kenites, 249
Kennedy, Robert P., 220
Kesselring, Albert, 153
Kettlekamp, Doctor, 40
KFUO-AM, 17, 42
Khmer Rouge, 218
King, Archibald, 127
King Philip's War, 52
Klotten, Gerhard, 130
Knight, Death and the Devil
(Dürer), 112
Knights Templar, 98
Koch Hospital (St. Louis), 33, 37, 40
Krakow Cathedral, 191
Kretzmann, Paul, 45, 81, 305
Kretzschmar, Richard, 15â17, 42
Kristallnacht (1938), 123
Kropp, Robert, 151
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Laconia,
165â66
Laconia Order, 165
LaCrouts, Nathalie, 84
Ladies' Aid Society, 43â44
Lancaster, Burt, 42
Landsberg Prison, 256
Lateran Council, 262â63
Lathrem, Raymond T., 67
Lathrem, Virginia Byrnside, 67
Laurel, The,
138
Lawrence, Geoffrey, 154â56, 183, 227â28, 231, 233, 234, 241, 243
lebensraum,
141, 142
Lemkin, Raphael, 154
Lemp, William, 14
Leo III, Pope, 106
Ley, Robert, 121, 133
Liberty Runs, 76, 93
Liebel, Willy, 112
Likovska, Anna, 226
Lincoln, Abraham, 55, 62
Lindsay, Chaplain, 36
Linz crematorium, 196
Little Bohemia Lodge, 298
London Agreement and Charter, 134
Lord's Prayer, 76
Lord's Supper, 261â64
Louvre Museum (Paris), 104
Luftwaffe, 145, 147, 203
Luke, Gospel of, 104â5, 187â88, 296
Luther, Martin, 4, 13, 21, 109â10, 263â64, 287
Lutheran ChurchâMissouri Synod (LCMS), 16â17, 27â28, 45, 58
Lutheran Deaconess Association, 33
Lutheranism, 27â28
Lutheran Layman's League, 277
Lutheran Mission Industries, 34â37, 42â45
Lutheran Witness, The
(magazine), 300
Lutheran Women's League, 277
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McCabe, Charles, 55
McCloy, John, 126â29
Mackie, J. L., 252
Madagascar, 192
Maimonides, 279
Malmedy, Belgium, 202
Mande St. Etienne, Belgium, 202â3
Markow, Ernst, 130
Martin of Tours, Saint, 50â52, 306
Mastersingers of Nuremberg
(opera), 92, 112
Matthew, Gospel of, 39â40, 51, 60, 306â7
Mauterndorf Castle, 149
Mauthausen concentration camp, 195â200
construction of, 195â96
death rate, 196, 197â98, 200
Eleventh Division's arrival and liberation of, 205â9
Kaltenbrunner's role, 194â95, 197, 198, 199, 210â11
Wiener Graben quarry at, 198â99
Wiesenthal at, 284â85, 286
Maxwell Fyfe, David, 163, 231
Medical Department Training Centers, 64
mehillah,
279
Mein Kampf
(Hitler), 142, 180, 256
Melanchthon, Philipp, 21â22, 24
Membury airfield, 74
Menard State Prison, 299â305, 307â8
Menard Time,
303
Mengele, Josef, 199
military chaplains, 50â61.
See also specific chaplains
after American Civil War, 56
in American Civil War, 54â56
in American Revolution, 52â54