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The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence

In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958

Dr Andrew Chandler (University of Chichester, UK) Professor Emeritus Gerhard Ringshausen (University of Lüneburg, Germany)

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English
Bloomsbury Academic
23 September 2021
George Bell was one of the most significant British church leaders of the mid-20th century and in many ways he came to define the involvement of British church people with the issues which arose from the Third Reich. Gerhard Leibholz, a brother-in-law of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was one of the most senior German lawyers of the period, a refugee from Nazism who would become a founding father of the new constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. The two figures first encountered each other in the context of dictatorship and exile and in a brilliant, sustained collaboration over many years they fashioned a vigorous moral response to the crises of Nazism, Soviet communism, total war and cold war. This volume contributes fundamentally to our understanding of the ethical, religious, legal and political debates which Hitler’s regime provoked. It also brings to life a vivid picture of the realities of exile and the networks of support which were active internationally in the great refugee crisis of these momentous years.

With its wealth of primary source material, previously unavailable in English, this book is an important contribution to the historiography of the Third Reich and will be of great value to scholars and students of Nazism and international history.

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   703g
ISBN:   9781350270954
ISBN 10:   1350270954
Series:   The Selected Letters and Papers of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
Pages:   504
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Illustrations Editors' Introduction Chronological Tables 1. The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Letters, 1938-1958 Appendix I - Biographical Sketches Bibliography Index

Andrew Chandler is Professor of Modern History at the University of Chichester, UK. He is the author of several books, including The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform (2005) and George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship (2016). Gerhard Ringshausen is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lüneburg, Germany. He is the author of a succession of studies of German church history and has specialized for many years in questions relating to religion and resistance in the Third Reich. He is a longstanding member of the board of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History.

Reviews for The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence: In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958

The Bell-Leibholz correspondence, painstakingly and evocatively reconstructed here, is a major contribution to the religious and intellectual history of mid-twentieth century Europe. It provides rich food for thought on a range of issues that still have a contemporary relevance. * Richard Overy, Professor of History, University of Exeter, UK * Admirably edited by Andrew Chandler and Gerhard Ringshausen, this volume provides uniquely personal insights into the burgeoning international ecumenical movement, the nature of Hitler’s racial regime, the struggles of the German resistance and British-German relations during and after WWII. * Matthew Hockenos, Professor of Twentieth Century European History, Skidmore College, USA *


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