Demon-Haunted Land

This account of German citizens swept up in a wave of supernatural obsessions after WWII and the Holocaust is “an engrossing story from beginning to end” (Booklist).

In the aftermath of World War II in Germany, a messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of peo...