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http://www.skadi.net/forum/showthread.php?t=253
HITLER, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE THIRD REICH
By Kerry Bolton
Po Box 1627 Paraparaumu Beach,
Wellington, New Zealand
The place of Christianity under Nazism
has been a matter of contention,
as with all else connected with that philosophy.
Hitler has been damned as the devil incarnate by his Christian opponents,
and heralded as a Jesus- like messiah by his Christian proponents.
The 24th point of the NSDAP's political programme even describes
National So
ialism as standing for "positive Christianity."
In order to access the real relationship of Christianity to National Socialism
it is necessary to go beyond the propaganda of
both pro- and anti- Nazi
Christians.
To do this the private pronouncements of the Nazi leaders
must receive greater
attention that their public statements.
An additional consideration is the actual practice of the Nazi regime
towards the churches.
Hitler's private conversations with his inner circle
between 1941 and 1944,
as recorded by Reichleiter Bormann,
himself one of the Nazi Party's most avid anti-Christians
as we shall see, provide the most insightful of sources
in determining the real attitude of Hitler towards Christianity.
<span style=\'color:blue\'>"The peasant will be told what the Church has destroyed for him:
the whole of t
he secret knowledge of nature, of the divine,
the shapeless, the daemonic.
The peasant shall learn to hate the
Church on that basis.
Gradually he shall be taught by what wiles the soul of the German people
has been raped.
We shall wash off the Christian veneer
and bring out a religion peculiar to our race.
and this is where we must begin,
not in the big cities......"
Rauschning remarks in
his Hitler Speaks
that the old folks customs
were being used by the regime to
de-Christianize the peasantry.
Agriculture Minister Walter Darre,
the original proponent of the famous
"Blood and Soil"
doctrine and the real father of th
e "Green Movement",
was one of the regime's
most avid anti-Christians.
Agricultural exhibitions had themes of the old peasant revolts
against the Church.
Peasant calendars were produced which replaced Christian
festivals
with Germanic heathen ones.
MORE AT LINK
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http://www.skadi.net/forum/showthread.php?t=253
HITLER, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE THIRD REICH
By Kerry Bolton
Po Box 1627 Paraparaumu Beach,
Wellington, New Zealand
The place of Christianity under Nazism
has been a matter of contention,
as with all else connected with that philosophy.
Hitler has been damned as the devil incarnate by his Christian opponents,
and heralded as a Jesus- like messiah by his Christian proponents.
The 24th point of the NSDAP's political programme even describes
National So
ialism as standing for "positive Christianity."
In order to access the real relationship of Christianity to National Socialism
it is necessary to go beyond the propaganda of
both pro- and anti- Nazi
Christians.
To do this the private pronouncements of the Nazi leaders
must receive greater
attention that their public statements.
An additional consideration is the actual practice of the Nazi regime
towards the churches.
Hitler's private conversations with his inner circle
between 1941 and 1944,
as recorded by Reichleiter Bormann,
himself one of the Nazi Party's most avid anti-Christians
as we shall see, provide the most insightful of sources
in determining the real attitude of Hitler towards Christianity.
<span style=\'color:blue\'>"The peasant will be told what the Church has destroyed for him:
the whole of t
he secret knowledge of nature, of the divine,
the shapeless, the daemonic.
The peasant shall learn to hate the
Church on that basis.
Gradually he shall be taught by what wiles the soul of the German people
has been raped.
We shall wash off the Christian veneer
and bring out a religion peculiar to our race.
and this is where we must begin,
not in the big cities......"
Rauschning remarks in
his Hitler Speaks
that the old folks customs
were being used by the regime to
de-Christianize the peasantry.
Agriculture Minister Walter Darre,
the original proponent of the famous
"Blood and Soil"
doctrine and the real father of th
e "Green Movement",
was one of the regime's
most avid anti-Christians.
Agricultural exhibitions had themes of the old peasant revolts
against the Church.
Peasant calendars were produced which replaced Christian
festivals
with Germanic heathen ones.
MORE AT LINK
:sun: :Swastika2: :sun: