The Devils' Bible

There's an interesting story in the Jerusalem Post about an old New Testament that has surfaced that is signed by 19 defendants of the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, including some of the most high-ranking Nazis.

From the story...

The renowned German writer Günter Grass once wrote: "History, or, to be more precise, the history we Germans have repeatedly mucked up, is a clogged toilet. We flush and flush, but the shit keeps rising."

Grass, himself the subject of a scandal involving his long-denied past in the SS, summarized the sentiment quite well. The Nazi past keeps on haunting the Germans (and not only them): newly published photographs of high-ranking Nazis in party mood in Auschwitz, the 25th anniversary of the Hitler diaries, which turned out to be a forgery, and, most of all, the new pope, a former member of both the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht.

How can his identities - Catholic, Nazi, German - be reconciled? Was joining the Hitler Youth the right choice for a pious Catholic, young but nevertheless old enough to make this judgment? This raises a different question, not only to Germans, but also to followers of the Christian faith: Could the famous question from Goethe's Faust - what is religion to you? - be asked to the heads of the Nazi Party and ideology? And what would their answer be? A most peculiar volume offers some possible answers and raises new questions.