Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American
Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at
Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions
of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation, and the
essence of humanity.
Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he enlisted as
am Army chaplain during World War II. As two of his three sons faced
danger and death on the battlefield, Gerecke tended to the battered
bodies and souls of wounded and dying GIs outside London. At the war's
end, when other soldiers were coming home, Gerecke was recruited for the
most difficult engagement of his life: ministering to the twenty-one
Nazis leaders awaiting trial at Nuremburg.
Based on scrupulous research and first-hand accounts, including
interviews with still-living participants and featuring sixteen pages of
black-and-white photos, Mission at Nuremberg takes us inside the
Nuremburg Palace of Justice, into the cells of the accused and the
courtroom where they faced their crimes. As the drama leading to the
court's final judgments unfolds, Tim Townsend brings to life the
developing relationship between Gerecke and Hermann Georing, Albert
Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and other imprisoned
Nazis as they awaited trial.
Powerful and harrowing, Mission at Nuremberg offers a fresh look at one
most horrifying times in human history, probing difficult spiritual and
ethical issues that continue to hold meaning, forcing us to confront the
ultimate moral question: Are some men so evil they are beyond
redemption?
