Mothering the Fatherland
Subtitle: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 05, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199363469
Description: During the Allied bombing of Darmstadt in 1944, some Lutheran young women saw their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath. In 1947, a small number formed the Ecumenical (now 'Evangelical') Sisterhood of Mary, one of the first post-war Protestant religious orders. They sensed God's call on them to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother Basilea, born Klara Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective national guilt for the Holocaust.
Notes: Source title: Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust