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The Cross and the Star:
Jews, Christians and the Holocaust
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The
Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust (1992;
55 minutes)
boldly examines the tragedy of Christian Anti-Semitism that may have
directly or indirectly paved the way for the Holocaust. The documentary
argues that the ideological seeds which developed in the Nazi Nuremberg
laws and then the death camp at Auschwitz may very well have been
sown in Christian dogma many centuries prior to the rise of the Third
Reich. |
The
film asks where the foreign governments, the institutional Church,
the Christian neighbors were while the Nazi atrocities were being
committed. The Cross and the Star comes to conclusions which
generate both dismay and hope, pointing out such examples as the Second
Vatican Council of the Sixties in which the Church recognized its
unfortunate rapport with Jews, sparking the initiation of a new Jewish-Christian
dialogue.
Some Interviewees:
Dr. James Luther Adams (American Theologian in Nazi Germany)
Dr. Jacob Birnbaum (Holocaust Survivor)
Dr. Helen Fein (Accounting for Genocide)
Prof. Lawrence Langer (Holocaust Scholar)
Rev. Michael McCarry, C.S.P. (Christology After Auschwitz)
Mr. Pierre
Sauvage (Weapons of the Spirit)
Prof. David Wyman (Abandonment of
the Jews)
For Distribution, Contact:
First Run/Icarus Films
153 Waverly Place, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10014
(800) 876-1710 or (212) 727-1711
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