Introduction -- Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust -- Christian Scriptures and Church Fathers -- Medieval Violence -- The Germanies from Luther to Hitler -- Christian Antisemitism, the German People, Adolf Hitler
Summary
Although Christianity's precise influence on the Holocaust cannot be determined and the Christian churches did not themselves perpetrate the Final Solution, Robert Michael argues in Holy Hatred that the two millennia of Christian ideas and prejudices and their impact on Christians' behavior appear to be the major basis of antisemitism and of the apex of antisemitism, the Holocaust