Mission at Nuremberg (50 page)

Andrus's request for, 96–97, 103–5, 117

assignment to Nuremberg prison, 7–8, 113, 117

attitude toward the military, 66

birth of, 15, 24

call to the ministry, 23–26

Chaplain Corps, volunteering for, 5–7, 45–50

at Christ Lutheran Church, 17–20, 41, 42–43

at Concordia, 14, 15, 16, 31, 292

Dachau visit of, 8, 94–95

death of, 305–8

debriefing after Nuremberg assignment, 291

dress style of, 18–19

early life of, 24–26

at Emmaus, 16, 17

enlistment in the army, 31

evangelization of, 39–42, 80

forgiveness, idea of, 287, 288

at Good Shepherd Church, 32–33, 34, 37, 40–41

Hank in Frankfurt hospital and, 290–91, 293–94

Hank's visits to father, 77–79, 91–92

at Harvard University's Chaplains School, 6–7, 48–50, 61, 65

ministerial training of, 14, 16–17

missionary work of, 20, 31–45, 299–305

at Mögeldorf church, 11–12, 117, 159–60, 184, 190–91, 235

Ninety-Eighth General Hospital assignment, 62–72, 74–86

at Nuremberg prison, 140–41, 143, 164–65, 252–53, 258–59, 275–76

arrival, 137–38, 140

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

Christmas service, 186–90

defendants' letter to wife, 223–25, 343–44
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Doenitz and, 165, 167

executions and, 270–77

family and family visits to defendants, 159, 190, 233–38

Fritzsche and, 8, 176–77, 179, 181–82, 186–87, 223–25

Goering and, 4, 143–44, 152–53, 255, 259–61, 264–69, 274, 275–76, 278, 291, 348
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Hess and, 140–41, 143, 152–53

inquiries from German clergy, 226

Keitel and, 4, 9–12, 234, 253–54, 272–73, 276

Raeder and, 167, 168

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

Rosenberg and, 166–67, 259, 273–74

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

Schacht and, 169–70

Schirach and, 11–12, 176, 179, 181–82, 223–25

Speer and, 175, 176, 181–82

Nuremberg trial and, 157, 158, 159, 164–65, 243

ordination of, 17

postwar life of, 293–94, 297–305

postwar speaking engagements of, 292–93, 294, 298

promotion to captain, 75

promotion to major, 290

radio broadcasting of, 17, 42, 46

at St. John's Academy, 26–30

in St. Louis, 5–6, 13–47, 291–92

war souvenirs, 291

at Zion Lutheran Church, 20–21

Gerecke, Henry “Hank,” 87

in the Aleutian Islands, 5, 31, 44

birth of, 16

early life of, 16–20, 43

enlistment in the army, 44–45

in Frankfurt hospital, 290–91, 293–94

marriage and family with Millie, 73, 293–94

Paris leave, 104

VE Day, 85

visits to father, 77–79, 91–92

Gerecke, Herman, 15, 19, 23–24, 25–26, 31

Gerecke, Leonora “Nora,” 15, 24, 31

Gerecke, Louis, 23

Gerecke, Mildred “Millie,” 73, 293–94

Gerecke, Roy David, 5, 17, 20, 45

Gerecke, William, Jr., 23–24

Gerecke, William “Wilhelm,” 22–23

Gerecke Memorial Cross (Chester, Illinois), 309–12

German Earth and Stone Works, 198–99

German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 27–28, 45

German Imperial Navy, 165–66, 167–68

German Labor Front, 121

German POWs, 81, 85, 88–89, 118, 119, 121, 202, 208, 209

Gestapo, 129, 130, 179, 193

Gibson, Ella E., 54–55

Gilbert, Gustave, 123, 137, 186, 189, 216–17, 219, 245

Ginsberg, Rabbi, 84

Goebbels, Joseph, 133, 170, 178

Goering, Carin, 145

Goering, Edda, 145–48, 235, 236, 238, 254–55, 277–78

Goering, Emmy Sonnemann, 145–48, 150

prison visits with husband, 190, 235–36, 238–39, 254–55

suicide of husband, 268–69, 277–78

Goering, Franny, 144

Goering, Heinrich, 144

Goering, Hermann

background of, 144–45

capture of, 149–51

at Mondorf camp, 151–52

in Nazi Party, 145–51

at Nuremberg prison, 102, 259–61

Christmas service, 187, 189–90

family visits, 190, 235–36, 238–39, 254–55

Gerecke and, 4, 143–44, 152–53, 255, 259–61, 264–69, 274, 275–76, 278, 291, 348
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Holy Communion and, 260–61, 264–65, 267–68

suicide notes of, 266–67, 268–69

suicide of, 3, 4, 265–67, 269–70, 275

Nuremberg trial, 101, 133, 155, 222–23, 226–27

Nuremberg trial verdict, 241–42, 243–44, 246

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 233

Goldensohn, Leon, 123, 215, 216–18

Gone with the Wind
(movie), 146

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (St. Louis), 32–33, 34, 37, 40–41

Gordon, Eileen, 297–98, 299, 301

Gordonville, Missouri, 20–23

Gottgläubig,
166–67, 265

Grand Hotel (Nuremberg), 160–61, 162, 226

Great Commission, 39–40

Great Depression, 20, 33–34, 36, 43–44

Greek-Macedonian Empire, 106

Grosse, Oliver, 45

Grossmith, Frederick,
The Cross and the Swastika,
176

Gusen concentration camp, 196, 198, 200, 205, 208–9

“GZY” rings, 63–64

 

Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 49

Hager, William, 22

Hague Convention, 125–26

Hannibal, 268

Harris Teachers College (St. Louis), 16

Hartheim Euthanasia Centre, 200

Harvard University's Chaplains School, 6–7, 48–50, 61, 65

Hauptmarkt (Nuremberg), 111, 113

Haushofer, Karl, 141, 142, 227

Heim, Aribert, 199–200

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, 108

Hermann Goering Works, 145

Hermitage, England, 63, 68–72, 74–86

Hermitage,
USS, 201

Herzberger, F. W., 31–32, 306

Hess, Bede, 296

Hess, Rudolf, 140–43

background of, 141

in Nazi Party, 141–42

at Nuremberg prison, 152–53, 234, 277

Gerecke and, 140–41, 143, 152–53

Nuremberg trial, 140, 142, 155, 227–28

Nuremberg trial verdict, 244

Hess, Wolf, 234

Heydrich, Reinhard, 147, 196, 197

Himmler, Heinrich

Goering and, 222, 223, 242

Hoess and, 216–17

Kaltenbrunner and, 193, 194–95, 211

Keitel and, 231

Hines, Hugh, 297

Hitler, Adolf, 111–13, 247

Doenitz and, 165

Frank and, 191, 228

Goering and, 145, 146, 147–49, 222–23

Hess and, 141–42

Keitel and, 10, 231

Raeder and, 167–68

Ribbentrop and, 168–69, 228

Sauckel and, 171–74

Schirach and, 180–81

Speer and, 175–76

Hitler Youth, 176, 180–81, 282

Hodge, Orville Enoch, 302–4, 308

Hoess, Rudolf, 211–20

Höllriegel, Alois, 199

Holls, Henry “Woods,” 18, 32–33, 37

Holocaust, 218–19

Holy Communion, 11, 164, 261–64

Goering and, 260–61, 264–65, 267–68

Keitel and, 253–54

Ribbentrop and, 169, 253–54

Sauckel and, 174, 253–54

Hoover, Herbert, 31

Hurst, Cecil, 124–25

 

Imrie, Matthew, 295

Inside the Third Reich
(Speer), 233

Inter-Allied Commission on the Punishment of War Crimes, 124

international criminal law, 125–26

International Military Tribunal, 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

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

 

Jackson, Robert, 129–35, 156–57, 183, 241

Jahwist (Yahwist), 248–49

Janowska concentration camp, 281

Jefferson Barracks, 37, 66

Jewish quarter (Nuremberg), 108, 109, 110–11

Jewish Welfare Committee, 293

Jews, scapegoating of the, 109–12

Jodl, Alfred, 85, 148

death by hanging, 275

at Nuremberg prison, 223, 254

Nuremberg trial, 133, 155–56

Nuremberg trial verdict, 246

John, Gospel of, 262–63

Johnson, Harold, 266

Joshua, 52

“Judas window,” 120

Justice at Nuremberg
(Conot), 288

 

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 170, 193–94

background of, 193

death by hanging, 273–74

in Nazi Party, 193–95, 197, 210–11

Nuremberg trial, 194–95, 197, 198, 199, 209–11, 217–18

Karl IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 110–11

Keitel, Karl-Heinz, 247

Keitel, Lisa, 246

Keitel, Wilhelm

background of, 10–11

capture of, 3

at Mondorf camp, 100

at Nuremberg prison, 234

appeals form of execution, 245–47

death by hanging, 1–4, 9–10, 12, 272–73, 276

Gerecke and, 4, 9–12, 234, 253–54, 272–73, 276

Nuremberg trial, 3–4, 133, 230–32

Nuremberg trial verdict, 244, 245–47

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, 15–17, 42

Kristallnacht (1938), 123

Kropp, Robert, 151

 

Laconia,
165–66

Laconia Order, 165

LaCrouts, Nathalie, 84

Ladies' Aid Society, 43–44

Lancaster, Burt, 42

Landsberg Prison, 256

Lateran Council, 262–63

Lathrem, Raymond T., 67

Lathrem, Virginia Byrnside, 67

Laurel, The,
138

Lawrence, Geoffrey, 154–56, 183, 227–28, 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, 261–64

Louvre Museum (Paris), 104

Luftwaffe, 145, 147, 203

Luke, Gospel of, 104–5, 187–88, 296

Luther, Martin, 4, 13, 21, 109–10, 263–64, 287

Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), 16–17, 27–28, 45, 58

Lutheran Deaconess Association, 33

Lutheranism, 27–28

Lutheran Layman's League, 277

Lutheran Mission Industries, 34–37, 42–45

Lutheran Witness, The
(magazine), 300

Lutheran Women's League, 277

 

McCabe, Charles, 55

McCloy, John, 126–29

Mackie, J. L., 252

Madagascar, 192

Maimonides, 279

Malmedy, Belgium, 202

Mande St. Etienne, Belgium, 202–3

Markow, Ernst, 130

Martin of Tours, Saint, 50–52, 306

Mastersingers of Nuremberg
(opera), 92, 112

Matthew, Gospel of, 39–40, 51, 60, 306–7

Mauterndorf Castle, 149

Mauthausen concentration camp, 195–200

construction of, 195–96

death rate, 196, 197–98, 200

Eleventh Division's arrival and liberation of, 205–9

Kaltenbrunner's role, 194–95, 197, 198, 199, 210–11

Wiener Graben quarry at, 198–99

Wiesenthal at, 284–85, 286

Maxwell Fyfe, David, 163, 231

Medical Department Training Centers, 64

mehillah,
279

Mein Kampf
(Hitler), 142, 180, 256

Melanchthon, Philipp, 21–22, 24

Membury airfield, 74

Menard State Prison, 299–305, 307–8

Menard Time,
303

Mengele, Josef, 199

military chaplains, 50–61.
See also specific chaplains

after American Civil War, 56

in American Civil War, 54–56

in American Revolution, 52–54