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Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism.(Book Review)

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| January 01, 2004 | Phayer, Michael J. | COPYRIGHT 2009 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. 259. $35.00.)

Publishers do a disservice to the reading public when they push authors to write books that cross the lines of their expertise. Such is the case with Beth A. Griech-Polelle's study of Bishop yon Galen, the subtitle of which points to the stretched area of German Catholicism and National Socialism. Griech-Polelle's biography of von Galen is certainly a worthwhile effort, but she treads on much-traveled roads when she deals with the broader issues of German church history without telling us anything new.

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