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Benedict XVI : a life. Volume I, Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927-1965 / Peter Seewald ; translated by Dinah Livingstone.

by Seewald, Peter.

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Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020.

Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-

Popes -- Biography.

9781472979193 (hc.)

xi, 500 p. : ill. (black and white) ; 24 cm.

"First published in 2020 in Germany as Benedikt XVI: ein leben by Droemer Verlag"--T. p. verso.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: The boy. Easter Saturday ; The impediment ; The dreamland ; 1933; "Holy year" ; The 'German Christians' ; With burning concern ; The calm before the storm ; The seminary ; War ; Resistance ; The end -- Part two. The master student. Zer

Based on countless hours of interviews in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI himself, this first volume of an authoritative biography follows the early life of the future Pope, from his days growing up in Germany and his conscription into the Hitler Youth during World War II to his career as an academic theologian and eventual Archbishop of Munich.

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