In Solitary Witness
Jordan, Patrick
IN BRIEF In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jagerstatter. by Gordon Zahn, Templegate, $10.95, 288 pp. This is the revised edition of Gordon Zahn's study of the life and death of...
...Zahn's sociological method and background provide the necessary discipline for avoiding the pitfalls associated with accounts of the saintly or the heroic...
...In Solitary Witness is The Cost ofDis-cipleship written in the biographical genre...
...This is the revised edition of Gordon Zahn's study of the life and death of Franz Jagerstatter, the Austrian Catholic peasant who resisted participation in Hitler's wars and was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943...
...Jagerstatter's life involved no easy compromises...
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...It, too, is a classic...
...He had to abandon his family to providence, face unattended the fury of the totalitarian state, and withstand the temporizing, common-sense counsels of the authorities of his church...
...Jagerstatter's moral clarity and precision proved startling, a flash of light in the dead of night...
...Zahn utilizes interviews with Jagerstatter's family, peers, and 19 June 1987: 393 neighbors, as well as Jagerstatter's own written testimony, unearthed by Zahn in the course of his investigation...
...It deserves to be read no less than once in a lifetime...
Vol. 114 • June 1987 • No. 12
