Review: Hitler's Cross: How the Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda by Erwin W. Lutzer

Title: Hitler's Cross: How the Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda
Author: Erwin W. Lutzer
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Publication Date: June 20, 2012 (first published, 1995)
Edition: Kindle (225 pages)
Category: non-fiction

Hitler's Cross: How the Cross of Christ was used to promote the Nazi agenda by Erwin W. Lutzer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Erwin W. Lutzer traces the path of how the church in Germany forgot or put aside its mission and was largely silent about Nazi excesses and Hitler's ultimate take over of both church and state. He profiles Hitler's rise to power along with Hitler's involvement in the occult, as well as the German nation's willingness to accept Hitler as their leader because of German nationalism.

The parallels to what is currently happening in the United States are astoundingly similar, and the evangelical church in America is acting eerily similar to how the church in Germany acted between 1933 and 1945. Mr. Lutzer does address this, but I wish he had gone further in addressing intolerance and hate that often seems to emanate from within today's church and not just from without. As a follower of Christ, I find this more disturbing than non-believer's efforts to make the church less relevant today.