[nickcarraway]

Then there was class hatred of Jews for supposedly controlling all the money, and ideological hatred of Jews for supposedly being behind the Communist movement.

Communism was anti-Jewish from the start. Remember Karl Marx talking about ``Money being the jealous god of Israel.'' Hitler's anti-Judaism was stoked by left-wing sources.

Many of those intellectuals of the 19th century regarded Christianity as a ``Jewish religion'' imposed on Europe. Some of the militia group movements today have picked up on that idea, and are anti-Christian.

[CobaltBlue]

It was an article of faith among the Nazi paranoiacs that Communism was a Jewish conspiracy - because several of the early Communists were Jew, e.g., Marx, Trotsky - this was distorted to an allegation that almost all early Communists were Jews, e.g., Engels, Lenin. I have an illustrated book published in Germany the 1930s about German reparations that has, as one illustration, an octopus gripping the world - it has simultaneously Communist symbols and a caricature Jew face, with earlocks.