{"product_id":"moroni-and-the-swastika-mormons-in-nazi-germany-hardback-9780806146683","title":"Moroni and the Swastika; Mormons in Nazi Germany (Hardback) 9780806146683","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMoroni and the Swastika\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMormons in Nazi Germany\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Conley Nelson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806146683\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e434 pages, 23 black \u0026amp; white illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.791 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDavid Nelson carefully examines the American and German Mormons who developed a small but dedicated cadre of converts in prewar Germany. Nelson shows how, as war became imminent, the Nazis accepted the Mormons and vice versa, whereas some religious communities such as the Jehovah's Witnesses resisted and suffered greatly. This book's critical scope, combined with intensive research and thorough analysis, provides a story of stunning breadth and clarity.\"\" - Robert C. Doyle, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Enemy in Our Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVoices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"David C. Nelson's \u003ci\u003eMoroni and the Swastika\u003c\/i\u003e takes us to the heart of one of the most important questions for our age: How could the Nazi horrors have happened and could they happen again? In this book we learn how ordinary good-living people, driven by faith and the leadership of their church, were not only silent but also colluding. Rather than apportioning blame, this story instead leads readers on a journey toward understanding the consequences for believers 'of conflating God and government.'\"\" - Christine Elizabeth King, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"With his comprehensive consultation of Mormon sources and astute use of recent German scholarship, David C. Nelson gives an unparalleled view of the remarkable way the LDS Church prospered in Nazi Germany while many other religious minorities suffered.\"\" - D. Michael Quinn, author of \u003ci\u003eEarly Mormonism and the Magic World View\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhile Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church's history - for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson's \u003ci\u003eMoroni and the Swastika\u003c\/i\u003e. A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler's regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism's equivalent of the biblical admonition to \"\"render unto Caesar,\"\" a charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict, ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports. They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began. They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons' courage and travails during the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recovering this inconvenient past, \u003ci\u003eMoroni and the Swastika\u003c\/i\u003e restores a complex and difficult chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the twentieth century - and offers new insight into the construction of historical truth.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670838407448,"sku":"9780806146683","price":25.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/moroni-and-the-swastika-mormons-in-nazi-germany-hardback-9780806146683","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}