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Activities of Prison Chaplains During the Nuremberg Trial

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the pastoral activity of two American prison chaplains, Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran, working in Nuremberg’s prison during the Nuremberg trial. The article explores events that led to the arrival of the chaplains to Nuremberg and the spiritual care they provided to the Nazi prisoners during the trials. Attention is also paid to the approach of individual Nazi criminals to pastoral care and to religion in general. The care that the chaplains provided to families of the prisoners is not omitted in the article. The aim of the text is to highlight the extraordinary importance of prison chaplains’ activities that are of immense importance, even in cases in which chaplains must provide pastoral care to the most tenacious and worst criminals imaginable.

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