Although Christianity's precise influence on the Holocaust cannot be determined and the Christian churches did not themselves perpetrate the Final Solution, Michael argues that two millennia of Christian ideas and prejudices and their impact on Christians' behaviour appear to be the major basis of antisemitism and it's apex, the Holocaust.

Contents: 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
Postscript

ROBERT MICHAEL is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA.