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3 Non-absent Bodies and Moral Agency: Confessions of an African Bishop and a Jewish Ghetto Policeman
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Confession and Conversion Confession and Conversion
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From the Mouth of the Perpetrator: I Believe From the Mouth of the Perpetrator: I Believe
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A Hagiographer's Ambition and the Prodigal Son A Hagiographer's Ambition and the Prodigal Son
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Confessing Guilt, Denying Culpability I: The Hagiographer Confessing Guilt, Denying Culpability I: The Hagiographer
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Confessing Guilt, Denying Culpability II: The Confessant Confessing Guilt, Denying Culpability II: The Confessant
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Self-Pitying Blindness (A Failed Confession) Self-Pitying Blindness (A Failed Confession)
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Authentic Disingenuousness Authentic Disingenuousness
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Te Deum Laudamus Te Deum Laudamus
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4 A Perpetrator and His Hagiographer: Oswald Pohl's Confession
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Published:December 2009
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Abstract
In a Christian confession, the confessant is typically a repentant sinner who is willing to confess his sins and reaffirm the Christian faith by praising God. Faced with his own mortality, the confessant gives testimony to his past transgressions, to his vainglory, and to a power greater than himself. This chapter examines whether perpetrators of genocide are capable of giving public testimony and revealing their innermost self in a mode of repentance and self-purification, in a manner that follows an ideal type of Christian confessiography. To this end, it focuses on Oswald Pohl, a high-ranking German National Socialist who wrote Credo: Mein Weg zu Gott (Credo: My Path to God) in an attempt to offer the public a confession story. Credo is not only a confession but also a conversion story. The chapter analyzes its religious rhetoric within the larger political discourse of postwar Germany.
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