Jesuits, Jews, Christianity, and Bolshevism: An Existential Threat to Germany?
The long-standing stereotypes of Jesuits as secretive, cunning, manipulative, and greedy for both material goods as well as for world domination led many early members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to connect Jesuits with “Jewishness.” Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Dietrich Eckar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-53 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBB German language area KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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Judeo-Bolshevism
anti-Catholicism
stereotypes
Marxism
Adolf Hitler
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| Summary: | The long-standing stereotypes of Jesuits as secretive, cunning, manipulative, and greedy for both material goods as well as for world domination led many early members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to connect Jesuits with “Jewishness.” Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Dietrich Eckart, and others connect Jesuits to Jews in their writings and speeches, conflating Catholicism and Judaism with Bolshevism, pinpointing Jesuits as supposedly being a part of the larger “Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy” aiming to destroy the German people. Jesuits were lumped in with Jews as “internal enemies” and this led to further discrimination against the members of the order. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00501003 |