The #1 religion scholar of the 20th century was a secret Nazi

Mircea Eliade left a legacy of lies

Jonathan Poletti
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Published in
6 min readMay 2, 2024

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He was the famous scholar of world religion. He died in 1986, as a horrifying question was asked: What had Mircea Eliade been doing during World War II?

I’m reading a 2023 book, Bruce Lincoln’s Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder, which tells the story of the man called the ‘greatest…

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