NewsHow an American pastor ministered to Nazis at Nuremberg by Kimberly Winston August 25, 2014ShareShare on TwitterShare on FacebookEmail to a friendPrint c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) He was a minister to monsters. That’s what Tim Townsend writes of Henry Gerecke, the Lutheran pastor from Missouri who shepherded six of the most notorious Nazis to the gallows in Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis.