Rev. Henry Gerecke served as an Army Chaplain during World War II. He was assigned to the war trials of Nuremberg. He served with the condemned prisoners, providing them with Christian counsel, up until their deaths. If you click on the links below, you will be able to hear audio files of a talk that Pastor Gerecke gave in Evansville, Illinois several years before his death.

On July 1, 1950 the Rev. Gerecke became Assistant Pastor of St. John and also Lutheran Chaplain at Menard Correctional Center and Chester Mental Health Center. Pastor Gerecke died in 1961.

• Chaplain Corps
• The Colonel
• Ribbentrop
• Hess
• Raeder
• VonSchirach
• Dr. Frick
• Goering
• Death March
• Civic Duty
• The Executed

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