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While 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 Moroni and the Swastika. 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.
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.
Recovering this inconvenient past, Moroni and the Swastika 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.
- Sales Rank: #931473 in Books
- Published on: 2015-02-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.10" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 432 pages
Review
“David 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 The Enemy in Our Hands, A Prisoner’s Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History, and Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative
“David C. Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika 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 The Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity
“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 Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
About the Author
David Conley Nelson holds a Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University. He served six years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and is now an independent researcher and commercial airline captain. He is the author of Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany (OU Press, 2014).
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24 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
A Positive Recommendation for a Very Interesting Book
By Susan Emmett
Having been an amateur history buff all my life, I have read many books that portray the good, bad, and the ugly of human behavior through the ages. Having been a faithful Mormon until I was in my 50's, I have always wondered what the story really was about the Mormons in Germany before and during the war. I married a man who served a 2.5 year church mission to Germany in the early 60's, which made me even more curious. He told me on more than one occasion that the members would not talk about that period in their history. He never got any kind of coherent picture of what was going on in the congregations and in the German missions as a whole during the decade before and during the war. I have always been curious about that. This book has filled in a large gap for me about the church there during that time. What is revealed in the book about the Mormons in Nazi Germany does not surprise me, and having known about the Helmut Hubner story, and the actions of the church concerning him at the time, it was fascinating to have the wider picture fleshed out for me. I can't begin to imagine the time spend in research for this book. As a former church member, I felt a conflict about what I was reading. I had sympathy for human beings trying to stay safe, and I saw typical machinations of the church -- both in the actions of some of it's leaders to keep the church alive and well no matter what it took, and creating a gap in that period of German church history that was obvious to me as an adult. As another reviewer has stated, this is not the only piece of Mormon history that has been suppressed almost from the beginning of the church. And THAT is a whole other story! I highly recommend this book.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Great comparison with other religious groups in Nazi Germany
By Jim Vireos
I had heard quite a bit about the interaction between the Catholic Church and the Third Reich, through the Concordat negotiated by the Vatican Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) and German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen. I have also read about Protestant collaboration with Hitler, through the auspices of Reichsbishop Ludwig Müller. In both cases, there were divisions in Germany's mainline churches. Dissident Catholic and Protestant priests and ministers rebelled. Some Catholic priests and nuns went to concentration camps, while Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed for opposing the Third Reich.
Such was not the case, apparently, with the smaller confessions or "new religions." They either rebelled and were seriously persecuted, or they went right along with the program and got along well with Hitler's government. Author David Nelson demonstrates quite convincingly, in the case of the Utah-based Mormons, that skillful collaboration was possible, even for an American-based sect with thousands of German members who served under American leadership. Unlike the Jehovah's Witnesses, which lost thousands of their believers because they would not salute the Nazi flag or serve in the army, the Mormons actively courted favor with the Third Reich--and in doing so became convinced they they had become one of Hitler's favorite sects.
Then, after the war, the Mormons manipulated their own narrative history by selectively suppressing, and then emphasizing (when the time was right) the few examples of lone Mormons who did not go along with the otherwise unanimous support that the Mormon Church in German gave the Third Reich.
29 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
" Nelson is most convincing when he argues that Mormons in Germany under the Nazis acted pretty much like most other ordinary (C
By Grant Harward
An interesting, well-researched, but ultimately biased and structurally flawed book. Nelson addresses a subject that is little known or studied, especially as Mormon historiography is still mainly focused on the history of Mormonism in America. His book is indicative of the greatly changed geographic and demographic membership of the LDS Church in the decades since WWII as today more Mormons live outside the United States than within its borders. An international church needs an international history. However, Nelson's professed hostility towards organized religion in general, and the LDS Church specifically, combined with the lack of context in regards to other Christian faiths in Nazi Germany results in a skewed perspective of Mormonism and its interaction with Nazism. The biggest structural flaw in the book is the fact that Nelson misleadingly compares the LDS Church with the Jehovah's Witnesses. While this may seem at first glace appropriate (both were small, American headquartered, and minority churches) it is a false comparison because, as Nelson admits in the book, Mormon doctrine towards the state is much more in line with the attitudes of the mainline Catholic and Evangelical (Lutheran) Churches in Germany. The Jehavoh's Witnesses stand out almost uniquely among the Christian sects (along with German Quakers) in Germany in their attitude towards the state in general and the Nazis specifically. Mormons should be placed in context with wider Christian responses to Nazism. This lack of context is a severe weakness. Nelson does not even cite Richard J. Evans recent work "The Third Reich in Power," a basic work of synthesis for a popular audience, that has an entire section of the book dealing with religion in Nazi Germany. Nor does he reference the Condordat signed between the Catholic Church and the Nazi regime or the "German Christians" who openly favored the Nazi regime. Vice versa he does not reference the widespread persecution of Catholics who resisted the regime or the actions of the Confessing Church that were also punished by the Nazis. Yet, in his conclusion Nelson argues that Catholics and Protestants did not accommodate themselves with the regime and that they did not suffer for it, and then suggests that the Mormons went further than needed to in order to ingratiate themselves with the Nazis. With more context it is clear that the LDS Church did not have some sort of special affinity with Nazism due to a supposed "Mormon Sonderweg." Nelson is most convincing when he argues that Mormons in Germany under the Nazis acted pretty much like most other ordinary (Christian) Germans: some became convinced Nazis, others resisted, and the majority tried to adapt to the new regime and often, as Richard J. Evans argues, retreated into the private sphere and their private lives. Nelson also claims that the Mormons "prospered" under the Third Reich, but he offers no definition of what constitutes prosperity (wealth? increase in membership? favoritism from the state?) or demonstrate it. Nevertheless, Nelson effectively illustrates the early history of the Mormon Church in Germany during the 19th Century. His exploration of Mormons in Wiemar Germany was also very interesting and his analysis of the "practice run" of evacuation from Germany in case of war that contributed to the safe removal of missionaries in 1939 was enlightening. His chapters on Mormons in Germany between 1933 and 1939 was wide-ranging, well-organized, and indicative of the gamut of Mormon experiences during the period. Nelson does not examine the war years of 1939 to 1945 and its affects on the Mormon community as intensively. The discussion of memory of the war was interesting and suggestive, however it also misses out on placing it within the wider developments of memory in Germany. Frank Biess' "Homecomings" illustrates how Catholic and Protestant Churches were integral in creating a narrative of redemptive suffering and sacrifice in the post-war years. It would be interesting to see how much Mormon memory actually had in common with these wider developments in Germany. Nelson's book is far from the final word on the topic of Mormons in Nazi Germany, nor is it conclusive, but it hopefully it will act as a lightening rod to attract more attention to the subject and foster further research from German, Mormon, and religious historians.
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