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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Published in:Journal of Jesuit studies
Main Author: Griech-Polelle, Beth Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
RelBib 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
Further subjects:B 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.
ISSN:2214-1332
Contains:In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00501003