Introduction [excerpts] The fundamental goal of this study is to understand how soldiers viewed organized religion, as well as theism in general, amidst the horrors of the Second World War. Although it is exceedingly difficult to enter into the spiritual minds of men, particularly minds from sixty-five years ago, the historical record left ample evidence from which historians may reach a more lucid understanding of this subject. Despite my presuppositions concerning soldiers' religous faiths during the inchoate...