![Gerecke praying in a prison cell at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, 1946.
Email Sons of God author, Tim Townsend, at gereckebook [at] gmail [dot] com.
Photo courtesy of The National Archives](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhg23gTToq1qhccb9o1_r1_1280.jpg)
Gerecke praying in a prison cell at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, 1946.
Email Sons of God author, Tim Townsend, at gereckebook [at] gmail [dot] com.
Photo courtesy of The National Archives
Sons of God
"Sons of God," to be published in 2012 by William Morrow/ HarperCollins, is about Henry F. Gerecke. Brought up in the early 20th century by German immigrant parents on a farm in southeast Missouri, Gerecke moved to St. Louis in the 1920s and was ordained a Lutheran pastor. During the Depression he was a missioner in the city's hospitals, jails and insane asylums. In 1943, at age 50, Gerecke volunteered as an Army chaplain. When the war was over, the Army assigned him to the most difficult year of his life. He would become prison chaplain at Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, ministering to the 21 major Nazis on trial for crimes against humanity.
