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Under the Gun

West German and Austrian Latter-day Saints in World War II

Roger P. Minert
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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Gedenkbuch (Memorial Book)
  • Major Events of World War II
  • West German Mission
  • Bielefeld District
  • Bielefeld District
  • Bielefeld Branch
  • Herford Branch
  • Minden Branch
  • Münchehagen Branch
  • Stadthagen Branch
  • Bremen District
  • Bremen District
  • Bremen Branch
  • Wesermünde-Lehe Branch
  • Wilhelmshaven Branch
  • Frankfurt District
  • Frankfurt District
  • Bad Homburg Branch
  • Darmstadt Branch
  • Frankfurt Branch
  • Mainz Branch
  • Michelstadt Branch
  • Offenbach Branch
  • Hamburg District
  • Hamburg District
  • Altona Branch
  • Barmbek Branch
  • Glückstadt Branch
  • Lübeck Branch
  • St. Georg Branch
  • Stade Branch
  • Hanover District
  • Hanover District
  • Braunschweig Branch
  • Celle Branch
  • Göttingen Branch
  • Goslar Group
  • Hanover Branch
  • Kassel Branch
  • Uelzen Branch
  • Karlsruhe District
  • Karlsruhe District
  • Durlach Branch
  • Karlsruhe Branch
  • Mannheim Branch
  • Pforzheim Branch
  • Saarbrücken Branch
  • Worms Branch
  • Munich District
  • Munich District
  • Augsburg Branch
  • Frankenburg Branch
  • Haag am Hausruck Branch
  • Munich Branch
  • Salzburg Branch
  • Nuremberg District
  • Nuremberg District
  • Coburg Branch
  • Fürth Branch
  • Nuremberg Branch
  • Ruhr District
  • Ruhr District
  • Benrath Branch
  • Bochum Branch
  • Buer Branch
  • Cologne Branch
  • Dortmund Branch
  • Düsseldorf Branch
  • Essen Branch
  • Herne Branch
  • Oberhausen Branch
  • Wuppertal Branch
  • Schleswig-Holstein District
  • Schleswig-Holstein District
  • Flensburg Branch
  • Friedrichstadt Branch
  • Kiel Branch
  • Rendsburg Branch
  • Strasbourg District
  • Strasbourg District
  • Bühl Branch
  • Freiburg Branch
  • Strasbourg Branch
  • Stuttgart District
  • Stuttgart District
  • Esslingen Branch
  • Feuerbach Branch
  • Göppingen Branch
  • Heilbronn Branch
  • Reutlingen Branch
  • Stuttgart Branch
  • Vienna District
  • Vienna District
  • Linz Branch
  • Vienna Branch
  • Weimar District
  • Weimar District
  • Erfurt Branch
  • Gera Branch
  • Gotha Branch
  • Nordhausen Branch
  • Weimar Branch
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary

About the Book

This volume is filled with gripping and fascinating stories of members of the LDS Church in West Germany and Austria during World War II. Today we are mostly unfamiliar with the conditions the German Saints faced during World War II. They did not have ready access to the many conveniences American Saints took for granted—including their local Church leaders, clean places to meet, cars, and temples. In fact, German Saints could only experience the temple by crossing the Atlantic Ocean and most of the North American continent. Germany was one of the war fronts where homes were destroyed and friends and families were killed. Unlike American soldiers returning to their homes, nearly half of the German Saints had no home to which to return. Hundreds of them served in the German military while thousands more stayed home and endeavored to keep their families and the Church alive. Their stories of joy and suffering are presented in this book against the background of the successes and collapse of the Third Reich. Readers will be touched at the faith and dedication shown by these Saints—young and old, military and civilian.

ISBN 978-0-8425-2798-9

Published in 2011

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