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Sobering look at how Hitler and the Nazi party manipulated laws to further their hate-filled agenda. People who were considered physically or racially inferior or disloyal to the state were deprived of their rights and often their lives under these Nazi laws. When Germany was ultimately defeated, Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg Trials, in an attempt by the world community to restore the rule of law.
Examines the step-by-step process that led German medical professionals down an unethical road to genocide.
The Cross and the Star finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors - all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that developed into Nazism.
While imprisoned for his involvement in the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler wrote the first volume of his book, Mein Kampf. In it, he expressed his desire to lead Germany towards a "utopian" Aryan nation, a country without Jews and with more territory. When he became Chancellor in 1933 and Führer in 1934, his vision turned into a nightmare, leading to World War II and the Holocaust.
