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Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War: Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism
Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism Author:Cynthia Eller Was pacifism an acceptable response to Hitler's military and moral assault? This volume analyzes the moral and religious arguments justifying an individual's opposition to war as it responds to this question. Drawing largely on interviews with 60 World War II conscientious objectors, this study provides an oral history of the difficulties encoun... more »tered as a conscientious objector in the "Last Good War," and uses World War II as a case study for examining how people arrive at the moral decisions which they act upon. By placing pacifism within its historical, theological, and political framework, the discussion considers the pacifist's commitment to action and his attitude toward the consequences of those actions, an aspect of pacifism on which Eller challenges commonly held views.« less