James Vincent Murphy James Vincent Murphy James Vincent Murphy (7 July 1880 – 5 July 1946) was an Irish translator, writer, and journalist, who published one of the first complete English translations of "Mein Kampf" in 1939. James Murphy attended St. Patrick's College. He was ordained a priest at St. Patrick's College Chapel in 1905. He left clerical service. Before the Second World War he lived for some time in Italy and Germany. James Vincent Murphy has been accused of translating the German word "Hakenkreuz" (Hooked Cross) which Nazis called their symbol, as "Swastika", a Hindu religious symbol signifying prosperity and wellness. However,
Austria – the Nazis' first victim Jews. Simon Wiesenthal accused KZ-Verband of continuing the "only for Aryans" practice that was accepted in Austrian parties before anschluss; Jews who returned from the camps – of copying Nazi division of inmates into "upper" and "lower" categories. The position of KZ-Verband determined the contents of the first Austrian laws about helping to Nazis' victims. Austria agreed not to offer them a remuneration, but just an allowance and not for everyone but to active participants of the resistance movement. According to the will of social democrats and conservatives force of the law was extended to victims of Dollfuss- Schuschnigg regime