Hitler's Personal Prisoner

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern Germany at the University of Sheffield. He has gained his PhD from the University of Bielefeld, and has held visiting fellowships at Humboldt University Berlin, the University of York, the University of Jena, Oslo University and Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo.

• Introduction PART I. Protestant Nationalism in Imperial Germany and Weimar Republic 1: Childhood and Youth in a Parsonage 2: Officer Candidate in the Imperial Navy 3: 'May God Punish England': Nationalism and the Great War 1914-1918 4: Theological Studies and Counter-Revolution 1919-1923 5: Inner Mission and People's Community 1924 to 1931 6: As a Parish Priest in Berlin Dahlem 1931-1932 PART II. Church Quarrels and Crisis of Faith in the Third Reich 7: The Nazi Seizure of Power in 1933 as a 'Protestant Experience' 8: The Beginning of the Church Quarrel 9: Building the Confessing Church, 1934 10: The Split of the Confessing Church 1935-1936 11: Arrest and Trial 1937-1938 12: 'Hitler's Personal Prisoner': Imprisoned in Concentration Camps PART III. Church Politics, Peace Activism and Ecumenical Work from 1945 13: New Beginnings - Delayed 14: Rebuilding the Protestant Church 15: The Political Pastor: Niemöller as a Critic of the Federal Republic 16: Pacifism: Niemöller and the Fight Against Nuclear Armament 17: 'The World is My Parish': Ecumenical Work 18: Hopes and Disappointments in Old Age Conclusion

[This is] a seminal piece of scholarship. [...] A treatise that will be read and referenced for decades. This is a masterpiece in the revisionist biography genre.