06 February 2014, The Tablet

No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, resisters against Hitler in Church and State

by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern

Put to the test

 
Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish RescueSusan ZuccottiIndiana University Press, 296pp, £23.99Tablet bookshop price £21.60             Tel 01420 592974Resistance: Jews and Christians who defied the Nazi terrorNechama TecOxford University Press, 304pp, £16.99Tablet bookshop price £15.30Tel 01420 592974 It was one of the most appalling catastrophes of history, but can the Holocaust be seen in some measure to have been a test? The most familiar images are of genocidal murderers, acquiescent local populations and victims going like “sheep to the slaughter”. But, as the title of Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern’s book suggests, there were those who were “no ordinary men”, t
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