The mark of Cain : guilt and denial in the post-war lives of Nazi perpetrators / Katharina von Kellenbach

In "The Mark of Cain", Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after the war.

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Main Authors:Kellenbach, Katharina von (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Oxford ; New York ; Auckland ; Cape Town : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents
The mark of Cain
Guilt confessions and amnesty campaigns
Faith under the gallows: spectacles of innocence in WCP Landsberg
Cleansed by suffering? the SS general and the human beast
From honorable sacrifices to lonely scapegoats
''Understand my boy this truth about the mistake'': inheriting guilt
''Naturally I will stand by my husband'': marital love and loyalty
''Absolved from the guilt of the past'': memory as burden and as grace.