期刊名称：Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
印刷版ISSN：1177-2484
出版年度：2008
卷号：2
期号：02
页码：62-81
出版社：Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
摘要：Ideally, Christian confessional writings are a public testimony, in which a sinner exposes his shameful past to others, namely to God and the public, so that a reconciliation and transformation can occur. This article pursues the question of whether genocidal perpetrators are capable of such a confession, using the example of Oswald Pohl's conversion narrative, Credo: My Path to God. Pohl had overseen the economic exploitation of slave laborers in the Nazi concentration camps. While in Allied imprisonment after the war, he converted to Catholicism. This article analyzes Credo's religious and gendered rhetoric within the larger political discourse of postwar Germany. Commenting on the conspicuous absence of women in Pohl's confessional testimony, I argue that religion assisted in negotiating a crisis of postwar German masculinity.
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