[Totalitarianism] is a revolt against the moderation and proportion of classical Greece, against the righteousness and justice of the Jewish prophets, against the charity and mercy and peace of Christ, against the whole vast cultural heritage of the Christian church in the Middle Ages and modern times, against the Enlightenment, the reason and the humanitarianism of the eighteenth century and against the Liberal Democracy of the nineteenth…. In Russia Christians and in Germany Jews are first gotten rid of. Presently it will be the turn of Christians in Germany and Jews in Russia for if you are to erase the most constant memory in the Western mind you have to destroy Judaeo-Christianity both in its roots and in its flowers. —Carlton J. H. Hayes (1939), quoted in Patrick Allitt, “Carlton Hayes and His Critics”