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Authors: Tim Townsend
Catholic, 49, 54, 56â57, 59, 70
in Colonial America, 52
by denominational quota, 58
duties, 57, 59
first black army, 54
first female, 54â55
first Jewish, 54
history of, 52â61
Martin of Tours and origin of, 50â52
National Defense Act and, 56
providing religious support to enemies, 136â37
relationship between the divine and war and, 52, 60
requirements for, 58, 60
role in battles, 203
training, 60â61
in World War I, 56â57
in World War II, 5â6, 57â60
Miller, Rabbi, 63
Milwaukee Journal,
298
Ministry of Propaganda's Radio Division, 178â79
“mission prayer,” 42
Missouri State Penitentiary, 36
Missouri Synod, 16â17, 27â28, 45, 58
Mitchum, Robert, 42
Mobley, Gregory, 220â21
Mögeldorf church, 11, 117, 159â60, 184, 190â91, 235
Moments of Comfort
(radio show), 42, 46, 75, 91, 293
“Moments of Prayer” (daily devotion), 75, 91â92
Mondorf camp (Ashcan), 98â103, 151â52
Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg, 98â99
moral evil, defined, 219â21
Mosel River, 99
Mounier, Pierre, 154
Mount St. Rose (St. Louis), 37â38
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 53
Munich, Ninety-Eighth General Hospital in, 86â94
Munich Municipal Hospital, 87â88
Munich Putsch of 1923, 141â42, 145, 256
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National Defense Act of 1916, 56
Native Americans, genocide of, 218
Nazi Party (Nazis), 105â6, 111â13.
See also
Hitler, Adolf
Frank in, 191â93, 228â30
Fritzsche in, 178â79
Goering in, 145â51
Gottgläubig,
166â67, 265
Hess in, 141â42
Kaltenbrunner in, 193â95, 197, 210â11
in Nuremberg, 105â6, 111â13
Ribbentrop in, 168â69
Sauckel in, 171â74
Schirach in, 180â81
Speer in, 118, 175â76, 198
“near-beer,” 16
Neave, Airey, 232
Nebuchadnezzar, King, 106
Neurath, Constantin von, 169, 245, 291
Newbury Race Course, 74, 76, 78
Newsweek,
242
New World Commercial Co., 14
New York Times,
130â31, 288
Niemoeller, Martin, 167
Ninety-Fourth Infantry Division, 201
Ninety-Eighth General Hospital, 62â72
chapel, 68â69, 75, 83â84
at Fort Jackson, 6â7, 62â68
in Hermitage, England, 63, 68â72, 74â86
in Munich, 86â94
Ninety-Eighth General Hospital Orchestra, 69â70, 80
Ninotchka
(movie), 146
Norenberc,
108
Normandy landings, 5, 75, 201
Norton, Herman, 55â56
Nuremberg, 9, 105â13
British bombing of, 113â14
history of, 108â11
Nazi movement in, 105â6, 111â13
origins of, 107â8
postwar life, 114â17
war crimes community, 160â64
Nuremberg City Hall, 108â9
Nuremberg Laws, 113, 123
Nuremberg Opera House, 162
Nuremberg prison, 115, 118â20.
See also specific prisoners
chapel services, 121â22, 158â59, 169â70, 181â82
Christmas service, 186â90
gallows.
See
gallows, at Nuremberg prison
history of, 120
layout of, 119â20, 121
organization of prisoners, 120, 121â22
prisoner responsibilities, 122â23
suicides at, 1, 3, 120â21, 265â67
Nuremberg Rallies, 111â12
Nuremberg trials, 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
Nussbaum, Samuel, 22
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Obersalzberg, 148â49
O'Connor, Sixtus “Richard,” 137â40
application to Chaplain Corps, 140
background of, 137â39
death of, 296â97
in Eleventh Armored Division, 200â204, 208â9
forgiveness, idea of, 287, 288
at Mauthausen, 208â9
at Nuremberg prison, 103, 158, 159, 186, 190, 209, 225, 251, 252, 258â59, 270
arrival, 140
executions, 271â76
family and family visits to defendants, 234, 236, 278
Frank and, 190, 193, 233, 274â75, 278
Papen and, 223
World Series, 4, 259, 266
postwar life of, 295â96
at St. Bonaventure, 137â39, 295
at Siena College, 139â40, 295, 296
Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS), 113, 115â17, 160
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 81
Office of War Information (OWI), 131â32
101st Airborne Infantry Division, 68, 202
122nd Ohio Volunteers, 55
“On the Jews and Their Lies” (Luther), 109â10
Operation Eagle, 147
Operation Sea Lion, 147
Order of the Friars Minor, 139
Ostfriedhof Cemetery (Munich), 288â89
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church (St. Louis), 13
Overy, Richard, 127, 132
Owens, O. E., 69, 78
Owens, Win, 69
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Palace of Justice (Nuremberg).
See
Nuremberg prison
Papen, Franz von, 222â23, 242â43
Paracodin, 151
Patton, George, 2, 86, 202, 209, 210
Paul of Yugoslavia, Prince, 151
Pearl Harbor, 44, 57â58, 61
Peleus,
SS, 166
Pell, Herbert, 124â25
Pequot Wars, 52
Persian Empire, 106
Pfluecker, Ludwig, 266â67
Pius XII, Pope, 49
Poland, 123, 139, 191â92
Polk, James, 54
Popeye the Sailor Man, 309
Pour le Mérite, 150â51
Prince Regent's Theatre (Munich), 92
Prinz Wilhelm Regiment No. 112, 144
prison.
See
Nuremberg prison
“prison psychosis,” 96
Prohibition, 14, 15
Psalm 23, 76, 306
Psalm 32, 279
Â
rabbis, 63â64, 80, 84, 92
Raeder, Erich
background of, 167
in German Imperial Navy, 167â68
at Nuremberg prison, 167, 168, 189â90, 234
Nuremberg trial verdict, 243, 245, 246
Raeder, Erika, 234
Raeder, Johann Friedrich, 272
Ramsbury airfield, 74
Randolph, Ross, 301, 302, 307
Reagan, Ronald, 67
Red Cross, 79, 281
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), 147
Religion-Philosophical Society of St. Charles, 54â55
Religious Census of 1916, 58
repentance, 285â86
Revolutionary War, American, 52â54
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
background of, 168
in Nazi Party, 148, 168â69
in Nuremberg prison, 189â90
death by hanging, 9, 10, 271â72, 273
Gerecke and, 9, 10, 168, 169, 235, 253â54, 271â72
Nuremberg trial, 101, 227, 228
Nuremberg trial verdict, 242, 244
Ribbentrop-Henkell, Annelies, 235
Richard, King, 107
Richthofen, Manfred von (“Red Baron”), 145
Rickey, Branch, 259
Riefenstahl, Leni, 112
Rintfleisch pogroms, 109, 110
Robert Koch Hospital (St. Louis), 33, 37, 40
Rolfingsmeyer, Loretta, 35
Romans, ancient, 50â52, 106â7
Rommel, Erwin, 200â201
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 49, 85, 123â24, 126â27, 129, 178
Roschke, E. L., 292
Rosen, David, 279â80
Rosenberg, Alfred
death by hanging, 273â74
Gerecke and, 166â67, 259, 273â74
Rosenberg, Irene, 239
Rosh Hashanah, 92
Roska, Charles, 266â67
Rothe, O., 45
Röttingen, Rintfleisch pogroms, 109, 110
Russian slave labor, in World War II, 172â74
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Saarinen, Eero, 32
Sabaria, Hungary, 50
Saint, The
(yearbook), 29, 30, 31
St. Agnes Cemetery (Menands, New York), 297
St. Andrew's Night, 163
St. Bonaventure College, 137â39, 295
St. Francis of Assisi Church (New York City), 296
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church (Chester, Illinois), 297â99, 306â7, 309â12
St. John Lutheran School (Chester, Illinois), 309â10
St. John's Academy and College, 26â30
St. John's Lutheran cemetery (Chester, Illinois), 301â2
St. Louis, Gerecke family in, 5â6, 13â47, 291â92
St. Louis Cardinals, 4, 259, 266
St. Louis City Workhouse, 37â38, 39
St. Louis Lutheran City Mission, 20, 31â47, 66, 73, 306
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
225
St. Louis University, 16
St. Louis World's Fair (1904), 14â15
St. Paul's Lutheran Church (St. Louis), 45
St. Sebald's Church (Nuremberg), 108
Samaria,
HMS, 201
Saratoga Race Course, 295
Satan, 220â21
Saturday Evening Post,
298
Sauckel, Elisabeth, 171, 174, 235
Sauckel, Fritz
background of, 171
in Nazi Party, 171â74
in Nuremberg prison
death by hanging, 275
Gerecke and, 170â71, 174â75, 188, 253â54, 275
Nuremberg trial, 155â56, 230
“Sauckel action,” 172â73
Saunders, David, 303
scapegoating of the Jews, 109â12
Schacht, Cordula, 236â37
Schacht, Hjalmar
in Nuremberg prison, 169â70, 189â90, 236â37
Nuremberg trial, 133
Nuremberg trial verdict, 242â43
Schacht, Konstanze, 237
Schirach, Baldur von
background of, 179â80
capture of wife, 184â85
in Nazi Party, 180â81
in Nuremberg prison, 168, 234â35, 277
Gerecke and, 11, 176, 179, 181â82, 223â25
translation of letter to Alma, 223â25, 343â44
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Nuremberg trial, 223
Nuremberg trial verdict, 245
Schirach, Henriette von, 11â12, 184â85, 190, 234â35
Schirach, Richard, 234
Schneider, William, 22
Schwab, Friedrich, 22
Sebald (Sebaldus of Nuremberg), Saint, 107â8, 112
Second Great Awakening, 55â56
Second Reich, 106, 111
Segar, Elzie, 309
Seidel, Alfred, 233
786th Airborne Engineers, 74
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 230, 244, 254, 258, 275, 277
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), 193, 231
Siegfried Line, 203
Siemers, George, 22
Siemers, Ludwig, 22
Siena College, 139â40, 295, 296
Sinclair, Frank, 298
Sinclair, Merle, 298
6850th Internal Security Detachment, 137.
See also
Nuremberg prison
Sixtus IV, Pope, 139
Smith, Henry, 71â72
sola scriptura,
27
Soldiers of God
(Spellman), 49
Solomon, 63â64
Song of Bernadette, The
(Werfel), 193
Soubirous, Bernadette, 193
Southeast Missouri State, 26
Speer, Albert
background of, 175, 185â86
in Nazi Party, 118, 175â76, 198
at Nuremberg prison, 185â86, 233, 252â53, 258, 272, 277
Gerecke and, 175, 176, 181â82
Nuremberg trial, 223, 232
Nuremberg trial verdict, 244â45
Spellman, Francis, 49
Stack, Robert, 149â50
Stalin, Joseph, 124, 126â27
Starnes, Robert, 267
Steinmetz, David, 263
Steyr crematorium, 196
Stifel, Otto, 13, 14
Stimson, Henry, 126, 127, 129, 132
Stone, Samuel, 52
Streicher, Adele, 275
Streicher, Julius
Der Stürmer
and, 101, 105, 157
at Nuremberg prison, 186, 235
death by hanging, 274â75
Nuremberg trial, 101, 157
Streit, Christian, 53
Student's Mission Society, 29
Sturmabteilung (SA) Brownshirts, 112, 145
Sullivan, Daniel, 226
Sullivan, James P.
army background of, 64â65
building of Ninety-Eighth, 64
end of war and, 85, 86
Gerecke and, 66, 70, 75, 81â84, 87, 96â97, 104, 105
German POW labor and, 81, 88
hospital move to Hermitage, England, 67â68
hospital move to Munich, 86â91, 93
recreation for patients and staff, 69â70, 76, 79, 84â85, 93
typhoid epidemic and, 88â89
Sunday, Billy, 24â25
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Taylor, Telford, 126, 135, 154â55, 156, 160, 162, 232, 240
Telegraphen Union,
178
Ten Commandments, 11
teshuva,
279â80
Thanksgiving, 44, 67, 80, 157
That These Words of Christ, “This Is My Body,” etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics
(Luther), 263â64
Third Reich, 105â6, 111, 195