Bernhard Lichtenberg

Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of the Nazi Regime

By (author) Brenda L. Gaydosh

Publication date:

06 July 2017

Length of book:

294 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498553117

Bernhard Lichtenberg: Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of the Nazi Regime is the definitive English biography of the martyred Nazi-era Berlin provost, Bernhard Lichtenberg. This work presents a broad overview of Bernhard Lichtenberg’s life (1875–1943) in the context of history. It discusses the areas of his life that had the greatest impact on how he dealt with situations during the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich, and it gives a detailed account of his resistance to the Nazis and his imprisonment and death. Appendices present a wealth of primary sources on Lichtenberg’s life, including a collection of his letters from prison which have not previously been made available in English.

1. From Childhood to Priesthood (1875–1899)
2. Expanding the Catholic Presence in Berlin (1900–1918)
3. The Weimar Years (1919–1933)
4. Catholic Accommodation and Resistance (1933–1935)
5. Nazi Thrust and Catholic Parry (1936–1939)
6. The Nazi Regime Raises the Stakes (1939–1941)
7. In Nazi Hands (1941–1942)
8. Memory and Beatification

In this deeply researched and cogently written book, the historian Brenda Gaydosh gives us a fuller picture than we have had before of this man of great courage and deep piety, a righteous gentile among the nations in Israel, the martyr Bernhard Lichtenberg.