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The article examines the relationship between the antisemitic theological writings of Jesuit Erich Przywara and National Socialism. Alleged intellectualism in Przywara's essentialist criticisms and calls for Jews to convert to Catholicism is scrutinized along with the alleged influence of Hilaire Belloc’s 1922 book "The Jews" on Przywara's concepts of Catholicism and nationalism.

This article analyzes the nature of ethnic Germans’ identities and nationalisms in what is now modern Slovenia from the beginning of the Third Reich in 1933 to the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. The reactions of these Germans to world and local events are examined through the prism of local German-language media and archival sources, which show that ethnic Germans at this time were conflicted by multiple identities and nationalisms: one that most strongly aligned with the German nationalism of National Socialist ideology, and one that was marked by a robust Austro-Catholic regional identity aligned with conservative Christian Austrians in neighboring Austria. This article therefore adds to an understanding of the appeal of National Socialism for and types of nationalism of ethnic Germans outside of the Third Reich, as well as the role of religion in Austrian identity formation in the early twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Austro-fascist goal of re-Catholicizing society entailed the restoration of a highly hierarchical gender order, resulting in legal discrimination against women. This article analyzes how the two women’s organizations that existed within the Austro-fascist unity party Vaterländische Front responded to the regime’s gender policies. Both organizations, Mutterschutzwerk (headed by former journalist Mina Wolfring) and Frauenreferat (headed by Countess Franziska Starhemberg, president of the Catholic women’s organization), specifically targeted housewives and mothers on the basis of their politics of gender difference. Using three axes of inequality – class, gender and religion – as an analytical tool, the article highlights how gender and class differences were conceived and implemented within the context of a Catholic and politically authoritarian system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a response to a series of articles by Paul Silas Peterson on the interwar Jesuit religious philosopher Erich Przywara in which Peterson characterizes Przywara as an antisemite and a "Catholic fascist". Peterson's hermeneutic categorization of Peterson's alleged illiberalism as fascism is criticized along with Peterson's views on Przywara's spiritual independence and the alleged influence of national socialism, antisemitism, and fascism on Przywara's essays on church and state and Catholic-Jewish relations "Reich und Kreuz", "Nation, Staat, Kirche", and "Judentum und Christentum" is examined.