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Religion in Strange Times: The 1960s and 1970s. By Ronald B. Flowers. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1984. xiv + 242 pp.

Briefly put, this is a splendid book—massive in well-selected documentation, impeccable in detailed explanations by the editor, beautiful in the quality of printing and binding. The importance of Eutin is signalized by a number of "firsts" which occurred there during the Nazi conquest of power. Stokes shows how it was indeed a "proving ground" for the Third Reich. Eutin, near Liibeck, had the first NSDAP government and the first concentration camp. Stokes provides fine introductions to the chapters into which the documents are divided by topic, and he also conveys extensive and useful information in the footnotes to each item. Both in overall organization and in minutiae, the work is truly a model of scholarly performance. To discuss the items on which the book throws light would be to discuss almost every aspect of the rise of Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich. For this reader the sections on "Landeskirche," "Die Sekten," and "Die Juden" were especially interesting. Others will find valuable documentation, with fine notes, on the topics of their own particular specializations.