Mission at Nuremberg (51 page)

Catholic, 49, 54, 56–57, 59, 70

in Colonial America, 52

by denominational quota, 58

duties, 57, 59

first black army, 54

first female, 54–55

first Jewish, 54

history of, 52–61

Martin of Tours and origin of, 50–52

National Defense Act and, 56

providing religious support to enemies, 136–37

relationship between the divine and war and, 52, 60

requirements for, 58, 60

role in battles, 203

training, 60–61

in World War I, 56–57

in World War II, 5–6, 57–60

Miller, Rabbi, 63

Milwaukee Journal,
298

Ministry of Propaganda's Radio Division, 178–79

“mission prayer,” 42

Missouri State Penitentiary, 36

Missouri Synod, 16–17, 27–28, 45, 58

Mitchum, Robert, 42

Mobley, Gregory, 220–21

Mögeldorf church, 11, 117, 159–60, 184, 190–91, 235

Moments of Comfort
(radio show), 42, 46, 75, 91, 293

“Moments of Prayer” (daily devotion), 75, 91–92

Mondorf camp (Ashcan), 98–103, 151–52

Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg, 98–99

moral evil, defined, 219–21

Mosel River, 99

Mounier, Pierre, 154

Mount St. Rose (St. Louis), 37–38

Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 53

Munich, Ninety-Eighth General Hospital in, 86–94

Munich Municipal Hospital, 87–88

Munich Putsch of 1923, 141–42, 145, 256

 

National Defense Act of 1916, 56

Native Americans, genocide of, 218

Nazi Party (Nazis), 105–6, 111–13.
See also
Hitler, Adolf

Frank in, 191–93, 228–30

Fritzsche in, 178–79

Goering in, 145–51

Gottgläubig,
166–67, 265

Hess in, 141–42

Kaltenbrunner in, 193–95, 197, 210–11

in Nuremberg, 105–6, 111–13

Ribbentrop in, 168–69

Sauckel in, 171–74

Schirach in, 180–81

Speer in, 118, 175–76, 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,
130–31, 288

Niemoeller, Martin, 167

Ninety-Fourth Infantry Division, 201

Ninety-Eighth General Hospital, 62–72

chapel, 68–69, 75, 83–84

at Fort Jackson, 6–7, 62–68

in Hermitage, England, 63, 68–72, 74–86

in Munich, 86–94

Ninety-Eighth General Hospital Orchestra, 69–70, 80

Ninotchka
(movie), 146

Norenberc,
108

Normandy landings, 5, 75, 201

Norton, Herman, 55–56

Nuremberg, 9, 105–13

British bombing of, 113–14

history of, 108–11

Nazi movement in, 105–6, 111–13

origins of, 107–8

postwar life, 114–17

war crimes community, 160–64

Nuremberg City Hall, 108–9

Nuremberg Laws, 113, 123

Nuremberg Opera House, 162

Nuremberg prison, 115, 118–20.
See also specific prisoners

chapel services, 121–22, 158–59, 169–70, 181–82

Christmas service, 186–90

gallows.
See
gallows, at Nuremberg prison

history of, 120

layout of, 119–20, 121

organization of prisoners, 120, 121–22

prisoner responsibilities, 122–23

suicides at, 1, 3, 120–21, 265–67

Nuremberg Rallies, 111–12

Nuremberg trials, 7, 154–58, 225–33

adjournment, 233, 240

basic structure, 134–35

Christmas break, 183–84

Doenitz at, 101, 166, 243, 245

final statements, 226–33

Frank at, 101, 228–30

Fritzsche at, 7–8, 133, 177, 223, 227, 232, 242–43, 244

Gerecke's prayer, 157

Goering at, 101, 133, 155, 222–23, 226–27, 241–44, 246

Hess at, 140, 142, 155, 227–28, 244

Jackson's opening statement, 156–57

Jodl at, 133, 155–56, 246

Kaltenbrunner at, 194–95, 198, 199, 209–11, 217–18

Keitel at, 3–4, 133, 230–32, 244, 245–47

opening of, 154–57

Raeder at, 243, 245, 246

Ribbentrop at, 101, 227, 228, 242, 244

Sauckel at, 155–56, 230

Schacht at, 133, 242–43

Schirach at, 223, 245

selection of site, 115

Speer at, 223, 244–45

Streicher at, 101, 157

U.S. case, 157–58

verdicts, 240–45

war crimes planning, 125–36

Nussbaum, Samuel, 22

 

Obersalzberg, 148–49

O'Connor, Sixtus “Richard,” 137–40

application to Chaplain Corps, 140

background of, 137–39

death of, 296–97

in Eleventh Armored Division, 200–204, 208–9

forgiveness, idea of, 287, 288

at Mauthausen, 208–9

at Nuremberg prison, 103, 158, 159, 186, 190, 209, 225, 251, 252, 258–59, 270

arrival, 140

executions, 271–76

family and family visits to defendants, 234, 236, 278

Frank and, 190, 193, 233, 274–75, 278

Papen and, 223

World Series, 4, 259, 266

postwar life of, 295–96

at St. Bonaventure, 137–39, 295

at Siena College, 139–40, 295, 296

Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS), 113, 115–17, 160

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 81

Office of War Information (OWI), 131–32

101st Airborne Infantry Division, 68, 202

122nd Ohio Volunteers, 55

“On the Jews and Their Lies” (Luther), 109–10

Operation Eagle, 147

Operation Sea Lion, 147

Order of the Friars Minor, 139

Ostfriedhof Cemetery (Munich), 288–89

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church (St. Louis), 13

Overy, Richard, 127, 132

Owens, O. E., 69, 78

Owens, Win, 69

 

Palace of Justice (Nuremberg).
See
Nuremberg prison

Papen, Franz von, 222–23, 242–43

Paracodin, 151

Patton, George, 2, 86, 202, 209, 210

Paul of Yugoslavia, Prince, 151

Pearl Harbor, 44, 57–58, 61

Peleus,
SS, 166

Pell, Herbert, 124–25

Pequot Wars, 52

Persian Empire, 106

Pfluecker, Ludwig, 266–67

Pius XII, Pope, 49

Poland, 123, 139, 191–92

Polk, James, 54

Popeye the Sailor Man, 309

Pour le Mérite, 150–51

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

 

rabbis, 63–64, 80, 84, 92

Raeder, Erich

background of, 167

in German Imperial Navy, 167–68

at Nuremberg prison, 167, 168, 189–90, 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, 54–55

Religious Census of 1916, 58

repentance, 285–86

Revolutionary War, American, 52–54

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

background of, 168

in Nazi Party, 148, 168–69

in Nuremberg prison, 189–90

death by hanging, 9, 10, 271–72, 273

Gerecke and, 9, 10, 168, 169, 235, 253–54, 271–72

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, 50–52, 106–7

Rommel, Erwin, 200–201

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 49, 85, 123–24, 126–27, 129, 178

Roschke, E. L., 292

Rosen, David, 279–80

Rosenberg, Alfred

death by hanging, 273–74

Gerecke and, 166–67, 259, 273–74

Rosenberg, Irene, 239

Rosh Hashanah, 92

Roska, Charles, 266–67

Rothe, O., 45

Röttingen, Rintfleisch pogroms, 109, 110

Russian slave labor, in World War II, 172–74

 

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, 137–39, 295

St. Francis of Assisi Church (New York City), 296

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church (Chester, Illinois), 297–99, 306–7, 309–12

St. John Lutheran School (Chester, Illinois), 309–10

St. John's Academy and College, 26–30

St. John's Lutheran cemetery (Chester, Illinois), 301–2

St. Louis, Gerecke family in, 5–6, 13–47, 291–92

St. Louis Cardinals, 4, 259, 266

St. Louis City Workhouse, 37–38, 39

St. Louis Lutheran City Mission, 20, 31–47, 66, 73, 306

St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
225

St. Louis University, 16

St. Louis World's Fair (1904), 14–15

St. Paul's Lutheran Church (St. Louis), 45

St. Sebald's Church (Nuremberg), 108

Samaria,
HMS, 201

Saratoga Race Course, 295

Satan, 220–21

Saturday Evening Post,
298

Sauckel, Elisabeth, 171, 174, 235

Sauckel, Fritz

background of, 171

in Nazi Party, 171–74

in Nuremberg prison

death by hanging, 275

Gerecke and, 170–71, 174–75, 188, 253–54, 275

Nuremberg trial, 155–56, 230

“Sauckel action,” 172–73

Saunders, David, 303

scapegoating of the Jews, 109–12

Schacht, Cordula, 236–37

Schacht, Hjalmar

in Nuremberg prison, 169–70, 189–90, 236–37

Nuremberg trial, 133

Nuremberg trial verdict, 242–43

Schacht, Konstanze, 237

Schirach, Baldur von

background of, 179–80

capture of wife, 184–85

in Nazi Party, 180–81

in Nuremberg prison, 168, 234–35, 277

Gerecke and, 11, 176, 179, 181–82, 223–25

translation of letter to Alma, 223–25, 343–44
n

Nuremberg trial, 223

Nuremberg trial verdict, 245

Schirach, Henriette von, 11–12, 184–85, 190, 234–35

Schirach, Richard, 234

Schneider, William, 22

Schwab, Friedrich, 22

Sebald (Sebaldus of Nuremberg), Saint, 107–8, 112

Second Great Awakening, 55–56

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, 139–40, 295, 296

Sinclair, Frank, 298

Sinclair, Merle, 298

6850th Internal Security Detachment, 137.
See also
Nuremberg prison

Sixtus IV, Pope, 139

Smith, Henry, 71–72

sola scriptura,
27

Soldiers of God
(Spellman), 49

Solomon, 63–64

Song of Bernadette, The
(Werfel), 193

Soubirous, Bernadette, 193

Southeast Missouri State, 26

Speer, Albert

background of, 175, 185–86

in Nazi Party, 118, 175–76, 198

at Nuremberg prison, 185–86, 233, 252–53, 258, 272, 277

Gerecke and, 175, 176, 181–82

Nuremberg trial, 223, 232

Nuremberg trial verdict, 244–45

Spellman, Francis, 49

Stack, Robert, 149–50

Stalin, Joseph, 124, 126–27

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, 274–75

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, 64–65

building of Ninety-Eighth, 64

end of war and, 85, 86

Gerecke and, 66, 70, 75, 81–84, 87, 96–97, 104, 105

German POW labor and, 81, 88

hospital move to Hermitage, England, 67–68

hospital move to Munich, 86–91, 93

recreation for patients and staff, 69–70, 76, 79, 84–85, 93

typhoid epidemic and, 88–89

Sunday, Billy, 24–25

 

Taylor, Telford, 126, 135, 154–55, 156, 160, 162, 232, 240

Telegraphen Union,
178

Ten Commandments, 11

teshuva,
279–80

Thanksgiving, 44, 67, 80, 157

That These Words of Christ, “This Is My Body,” etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics
(Luther), 263–64

Third Reich, 105–6, 111, 195