Mothering the Fatherland

How should one respond, personally or theologically, to genocide committed on one''s behalf? After the Allied bombing of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1944, some Lutheran young women perceived their city''s destruction as an expression of God''s wrath-a punishment for Hitler''s murder of six million Jews, purportedly on behalf of the German people.George Faithful tells the story of a number of these youn...