The Cross and the Star

Résumé du livre

Contains the script of John J. Michalczyk's documentary film "The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust, " and a commentary, with brief bibliography and filmography, on topics raised in the film: the anti-Jewish tradition in Christian writings and their use in Nazi propaganda, the Vatican's and other European Christian Churches' attitudes during the Holocaust, the "abandonment" of the Jews by the Allies, and post-Holocaust changes in the Catholic Church's attitude toward Jews and Judaism.