Kolbe and the Kommandant
Two Worlds in Collision! A most amazing story that not only reveals the life of a Saint - but the last days of none other than Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolph Hoess. As a dual biography of a great saint and of one of the greatest criminals ever to scourge mankind, this book accomplishes what separate biographies of the two men could only suggest. It shows the inevitable deadly collision of the two worlds that each represented, a collision that also produced unexpected atonement, conversion and healing. In the process, this double biography reveals mankind's last real hope for deliverance from the crazed, satanic forces that still afflict it. Rarely has the conflict of the two opposing worlds been so dramatized and epitomized as in the stories of Maximilian Kolbe and Rudolph Hoess. What elevates the story of Kolbe and Hoess to the level of an epic, is that both men were strikingly alike in their early lives and ideals. Both later became leaders who radically changed the lives of countless millions of people. For most of us, it is hard to appreciate and believe that tremendous power of Kolbe's faith, love and life until precisely we see something of the "inconceivable darkness" that they overcame.
-- (Introduction, Kolbe and the Kommandant) | "Royal says he came away from his work with a renewed appreciation for Kolbe, in particular, whom he believes is a remarkable figure independent of his selfless death at Auschwitz in 1941."
- -Robert Royal's newly published book,
"The Catholic Martyrs of the 20th Century,"
featured in Our Sunday Visitor, 18 June 2000. | |
| Here is a true story that puts into focus similar stories going on in the world at this very moment! | | 
