Review of <i>Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany</i>

Doris L. Bergen's Between God and Hitler is an informative, sobering historical account of the role of military chaplains in Nazi Germany.She examines the nearly 1,000 Protestant and Catholic chaplains who served in the German Wehrmacht during World War II.Bergen draws on over a decade of research by using personal letters, military reports, and survivor testimonies.The animating question of the book is: "Whom or what does a chaplain serve?"The need to ask and answer this question is critical for understanding