By Susannah Heschel (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence … Continue reading The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany