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''In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter'' is a book written by Gordon Zahn originally published in 1964.〔 〕 Its subject is the conscientious objector Saint Franz Jägerstätter. == Overview == Zahn, a Catholic and a pacifist, first heard of Jägerstätter in 1956, while doing research for an earlier book, ''German Catholics and Hitler's Wars''.〔 He was impressed and inspired by Jägerstätter’s story and felt that it deserved a wider audience: “it was enough to convince me that this was indeed an amazing story, one deserving the widest possible attention".〔Zahn, page 4.〕 Unlike some other conscientious objectors, Jägerstätter “came from a social background that one would ordinarily not associate with such an overtly rebellious act."〔 Jägerstätter was a peasant living and working in the small upper Austrian village of St. Radegund. A farmer struggling to survive in a village of farmers struggling to survive, when Jägerstätter was “presented with his orders to serve in a war he considered unjust—a war, moreover, which he felt would serve the evil purposes of an intrinsically immoral political regime—refused to comply, and in his refusal accepted the death he knew would follow.”〔Zahn, 14.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In Solitary Witness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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