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,
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis German scientific community in formulating racial policies and the Nazi Party’s censorship of medical journals, thereby ensuring that “racial hygiene” became considered “normal science”. According to an article in the "Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences", the book “destroys the argument that the German scientific community was coerced into participating in Nazi programs”. Proctor traces the history of eugenics prior to the Nazi Party’s rise to power and analyzes how the Nazis incorporated eugenic ideas into their ideology. He demonstrates how theories of racial science imbibed by the Nazis, and the adoption by scientists in turn of Nazi ideology led