" history could have turned out very differently."

How do you suppose "history" would have developed in Germany?  If Hitler had not taken power, who would have?  What would that person/group have done?  There had been a dozen or more elections during the short Weimar era, and none of those elections produced a leader able to solve the problems besetting Germany.



In 1920 NSDAP published its 25 Points Program. Jews were mentioned twice: "No Jew may be a citizen . . ." and the intent to combat the  "Jewish materialistic spirit."  
http://www.hitler.org/writings/programme/
Upon taking power and throughout the Third Reich, the same 25 Points remained the NSDAP program. 


Leo Strauss, guru of the neoconservatives, was a young ideologues in pre-Nazi Germany. He was an acolyte of Carl Schmitt, one of NS's idea-men.

Are the 25 points hateful? Useful? Some good some bad? Analyze them on their own merits - in tune w/ the best qualities of Catholic intellectual development.