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Tribute to Hitler: A Glimpse of Third Reich Christianity
Junge
“Hitler still treated me like the baby of the family. He particularly liked joking with me. I would be asked to imitate a comic Viennese film actor, or speak in Saxon dialect and reply to his jokes. Frau Christian was the object of Hitler’s gallant attentions. It sometimes looked like a little flirtation, but almost every day the conversation would come round to Eva Braun, and then I could see Hitler’s eyes take on a deep, warm glow, while his voice grew soft and gentle.” - Junge, 139
“He was not a member of any church, and thought the Christian religions were outdated, hypocritical institutions that lured people into them.” - Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary, 108.
Friedrich [Ernst Zuendel’s pseudonym] and Thomson
“We loved him because he built churches for us, Christian churches. In the name of Christianity, our enemies destroyed these churches, later bragging about the “precision” of their bombing raids.” - Friedrich and Thomson, 64
“We loved him because he was a deeply spiritual man who did not allow Jews to confuse Christian teachings.” - Ibid., 65
“The Christian churches loved him. Over 40% of the SS were Catholics.” - Christof Friedrich and Eric Thomson, The Hitler We Loved and Why, 66-67.
Dietrich
“At Stuttgart he always stayed at the Christian Hospice, where—as he [ ] remarked—the Bible was always to be found on his night table.” - Dietrich, 165
“In the vicinity of the Pforzheim he would regularly visit the Monastery of Maulbronn, and walk in the famous old cloisters.” - Ibid., 165
“He permitted the publication of Myth of the Twentieth Century only upon the author’s [Rosenberg] insistent urging. Hitler himself had grave doubts about the matter and stipulated that the doctrines therein must not be considered official. … He repeatedly took part in official Protestant and Catholic church ceremonies such as weddings, baptisms, and so on.” - Ibid., 155
“Hitler was no atheist. He professed a highly general, monotheistic faith.” - Ibid., 154
“In private conversation he often remarked sarcastically, in reference to churches and priests, that there were some who “boasted of having a direct hook-up with God. Primitive Christianity, he declared, was the first “Jewish-Communistic cell.” And he denied that the Christian churches, in the course of their evolution, had developed any genuine moral foundation.” - Ibid., 154
“At the beginning of his reign he tried to promote a Protestant National Church which would be tied to the state. But he very quickly abandoned this project.” - Otto Dietrich, The Hitler I Knew, 154.
Helmreich
“The German Christian Faith Movement was launched in Berlin in May, and on May 23 Strasser officially placed Hossenfelder in charge of carrying out the electoral campaign for the Prussian church elections. … Three days later Hossenfelder issued ten guidelines for the new movement. These guidelines disclaimed any intention of drawing up a confession of faith or of disturbing the confessional bases of the Evangelical church, but called for converting the twenty-eight churches of the German Evangelical Confederation into one Evangelical national church. … ‘The time of parliamentarianism is gone, in the churches as well.’ The movement stood on a basis of Positive Christianity: a faith as expressed in a German-Luther spirit and a heroic piety.” - Helmreich, 127
“In general the German Christians held that ‘national socialism and Christianity belonged together’ so that ‘Christianity should not lose its connection with the folk and national socialism, and national socialism should not become a movement without faith in God.’ - Ernst Helmreich, The German Churches Under Hitler, 127. [One of the best books available on Hitler and the churches, as well as Hitler’s faith. Published in 1979 and available “used” starting at $200.00. Sorry, but no, I will not sell mine].
Goodrick-Clarke
[As taken from Spear of Destiny]… “According to Hitler, Prietzsche was himself present when Guido von List attempted to materialize “the Incubus” in a ritual designed to create a “Moon Child” [a conception of the self-proclaimed English warlock, Aleister Crowley]. There is not a shred of evidence for such rituals [involving Hitler]. List was never obliged to leave Vienna and he enjoyed the patronage of prominent Vienna figures. The nature of the rituals Ravenscroft described indicate [only] the inspiration of Aliester Crowley, especially with regard to the creation of a ‘Moon Child’.” - Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism, 223-24. In other words, they’re all lies!
Laurie
“The troubles in the Protestant Church in Germany, as the following brief historical resume will show, began before the advent of national Socialism and the new government had to face difficulties already existing.” - Laurie, 110
“Hitler feels that Protestantism, which originated in Germany, is especially and peculiarly the type of Christianity which has become the national faith of the German people, and [Hitler] is most desirous to see it working in harmony with the National Socialist state.” - Ibid., 110
“The government [Hitler’s government] had not the remotest desire or intention to interfere with the religious teaching and faith of the church. The Protestant Churches have always been part of the State and some external organization and financial arrangements are necessary for efficient administration.” - Ibid., 110
“I thank God that the Peace of Europe is in the guardianship of the Führer and therefore, in spite of the frantic efforts of all those here [in England] and in Europe and America who want war [emphasis added], secure.” - Dr. A.P. Laurie, The Case for Germany: A Study of Modern Germany (published in July 1939), 179. [This book can be found every now and then and costs about $300.00. A re-print is now available from The Scriptorium].
“I am deeply stirred by the word which Ulrich Hutten wrote the last time he seized his pen: — Deutschland.” - Adolf Hitler (quoted from The Case for Germany), 30 January 1937
Jefferson
“To compare the morals of the Old, with those of the New Testament, would require an attentive study of the former, a search through all its books for its precepts, and through all its history for its practices, and the principals they prove. … “Ethics were so little understood among the Jews that in their whole compilation called the Talmud, there is only one treatise on moral subjects… What a wretched depravity of sentiment and manners must have prevailed, before such corrupt maxims could have obtained credit! It is impossible to collect from these writings a consistent series of moral doctrine. It was the reformation [the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth] of this “wretched depravity” of morals which Jesus undertook. In extracting the pure principal which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial [Jewish] vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves.” - Thomas Jefferson, The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, quoted from back cover in a letter from Jefferson to John Adams [sounds remarkably like Hitler doesn’t he?].
Kaltenbrunner
“Among the spiritual forces secretly working in the camp of Germany's enemies and their allies in this war, as in the last [WWI], stands Freemasonry, the danger of whose activities has been repeatedly stressed by the Fuehrer in his speeches.” - Dr. Kaltenbrunner—SS Gruppenfuehrer General of the Police, quoted in Freemasonry: Ideology, Organization, and Policy, 3 [originally published in 1944]. Hitler loathed Freemasonry and Illuminism. He had declared war on both.
Fabricius
“ ‘Positive’ means here as everywhere “the real thing,” but in the case of a spiritual power like religion, it means what is an historical reality [see Hegel’s dialectic]. … The “real thing” may be understood as something opposed to what is artificial, supposed , or pretended.” - Dr. Cajus Fabricius, Positive Christianity in the Third Reich, originally published in 1937, 20 [amazing book!].
Brenner
“This book presents 51 historic documents to indict Zionism for repeated attempts to collaborate with Adolf Hitler. … Brenner is able to cite numerous cases where Zionists collaborated with anti-Semitic regimes, including Hitler’s.” Emma: As a matter of fact, Hitler personally saw to it that about 70,000 Jews successfully escaped Germany prior to the outbreak of the war, as per the Ha’avara Agreement. He also personally exempted thousands of Jews (referred to as Mischlinge, or mixed-Jews) during his leadership. - Lenni Brenner, 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis, ix.
Wagener
“… I am astonished at all that has been made of the teachings of these divinely inspired men, especially Jesus Christ, which are so clear and unique, heightened to religiosity. They were the ones who created this new worldview which we now call socialism, they established it, they taught it, and they lived it! But the communists that called themselves Christian churches did not understand it! Or if they did, they denied Christ and betrayed Him! For they transformed the holy idea of Christian socialism into its opposite! They killed it, just as, at that time, the Jews nailed Jesus to the cross; they buried it, just as the body of Christ was buried. But they allowed Christ to be resurrected, instigating the belief that His teachings, too, were reborn!
“It is in this that the monstrous crime of these enemies of Christian socialism lies! With the basest hypocrisy they carry before them the cross—the instrument of that murder which, in their thoughts, they commit over and over—as a new divine sign of Christian awareness, and allow mankind to kneel to it. They even pretend to be preaching the teachings of Christ. But their lives and deeds are a constant blow against these teachings and their Creator and a defamation of God! - Wagener, 140
“We are the first to exhume these teachings! Through us alone, and not until now, do these teachings celebrate their resurrection! Mary and [Mary] Magdalene stood at the empty tomb. For they were seeking the dead man! But we intend to raise the treasures of the living Christ! - Ibid., 140
“Herein lies the essential element of our mission: we must bring back to the German Volk the recognition of those teachings! For what did the falsification of the original concept of Christian love, of the community of fate before God and of socialism lead to? By their fruits ye shall know them! The suppression of freedom of opinion, the persecution of the true Christians, the vile mass murders of the Inquisition and the burning of witches, the armed campaigns against the people of free and true Christian faith, the destruction of their towns and villages, the hauling away of their cattle and their goods, the destruction of their flourishing economies, and the condemnation of their leaders before tribunals [sounds like America’s persecution of Muslims], which, in their unrelenting hypocrisy, can only be described as blasphemous. - Ibid., 140
“That is the true face of those sanctimonious churches that have placed themselves between God and man, motivated by selfishness, personal greed for recognition and gain, and the ambition to maintain their high-handed willfulness against Christ’s deep understanding of the necessity of a socialist community of men and nations. … those hypocrites who have Christ on their lips but the devil in their hearts, who give alms in order to remain undisturbed as they themselves throw their money around, … who preach peace and incite to war!” Adolf Hitler quoted from Otto Wagener, Hitler-Memoirs of a Confidant, 140-41 [also an amazing book].
Eckart
“Far from advocating a paganist or anti-Christian religion, Eckart held that, in Germany’s postwar tailspin, Christ was a leader to be emulated, “In Christ, the embodiment of all manliness, we find all that we need. And if we occasionally speak of Baldur, our words always contain some joy, some satisfaction, that our pagan ancestors were already so Christian as to have indications of Christ in this ideal figure.” - Dietrich Eckart quoted in Richard Steigmann-Gall’s The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity 1919-1945, 18-19.
“Rome,” Hitler replied, “will pull herself together, but only if we pull ourselves together first. And one day it can be said that the Church is whole again…” Adolf Hitler, quoted in Eckart’s Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin.
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