Two outstanding new books offer a very different explanation of
Judeo-Bolshevism and its genealogy: Paul Hanebrink’s/A Specter Haunting
Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism/and Elissa Bemporad’s/Legacy of
Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets/.
Hanebrink, who teaches modern European history at Rutgers, makes clear
that Judeo-Bolshevism was far from an afterthought; it was a — perhaps
the — central catalyst in driving forward the Nazi genocidal project.
While communism was an undeniably essential part of the equation,
Judeo-Bolshevism, in Hanebrink’s account, is “the idea that Jews had
created and supported Bolshevism and were therefore responsible for its
crimes.” His book offers the most exhaustive account to date of the Nazi
obsession with Judeo-Bolshevism, but also of the other sites and eras in
Europe in which the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism flourished.
In fact, the book begins in Munich after World War I, but not with Adolf
Hitler. Rather, it commences with the papal nuncio in the city in 1919,
Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII whose Holocaust-era history remains
shrouded in mystery. Back in Munich in the war’s aftermath, Pacelli was
unsettled by the political chaos of Bavaria, which he blamed on a
revolutionary zeal unmistakably associated with Jews. He was hardly
alone among his co-religionists. Hanebrink skillfully charts how
Catholics across the Continent, from Poland to Spain, Italy to Austria,
eagerly identified the main enemy that was threatening the very
foundation of Christian Europe: Judeo-Bolshevism.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-combustible-compound-on-paul-hanebrinks-a-specter-haunting-europe-and-elissa-bemporads-legacy-of-blood/
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