"Hitler's Sinister, All-Monstrous Rulership: Unholiest of Missions Catalyzed in Christ's Name"
"I am Catholic and will remain so until the day I die" – HITLER, 1941
By Charlotte Schnook and Jordan Adorno
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Preface. Background History:
History
is currently being distorted by the millions of Christians who lie to
have us believe that the Holocaust was not a Christian deed. Through
subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and
faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler
and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshiper, or
a false Christian in order to place his misdeeds on those without
Jesus. However, from the earliest formation of the Nazi party and
throughout the period of conquest and growth, Hitler expressed his
Christian support to the German citizenry and soldiers. Those who
would make Hitler an atheist should turn their eyes to history books
before they address their pews and chat rooms.
Considering
that Christianity has thus far been incapable of producing an
unbiased, educated follower which speaks the truth (I haven’t
encountered any), I have been forced to dispel the myth by writing
this essay. It is not until I bring up his speeches, my personal info
on the Nazi regime and their tactics that a Christian will begin to
question what their clergy told them. (I am the offspring of a German
soldier. My Opa served under Hitler in WW2 and my father was raised
during the time of the Nazi regime. This is important information to
take into consideration for I am privy to some info that most
Americans do not know. It is common for American media and education
institutions to lie to their citizens concerning Nazi Germany.)
So,
in presenting this information I must break it into four parts:
1) Facts about Hitler and his involvement with the
Church. 2) How the Church was the catalyst
for Antisemitism. 3) Facts concerning how the
Nazi regime drilled these beliefs into Germanic society. 4) Quotes
Hitler made proving his disdain for Atheism/occultism, his upheld
Christian faith, and his hatred toward Jews due to his Christianity.
1. Hitler's Early Church Affairs
:
a) Hitler
was baptized as Roman Catholic during infancy in Austria.
b) As
Hitler approached boyhood he attended a monastery school.
b-2. On
his way to school young Adolf daily observed a stone arch which was
carved with the monastery’s coat of arms bearing a swastika.
c) Hitler
was a communicant and an altar boy in the Catholic Church.
d) As
a young man he was confirmed as a “soldier of Christ.” His most
ardent goal at the time was to become a priest. Hitler writes of his
love for the church and clergy: “I had excellent opportunity to
intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church
festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the
village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most
desirable ideal.” - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
e) Hitler
was NEVER excommunicated nor formally condemned by his church.
Matter of fact the Church felt he was JUST and “avenging for God”
in attacking the Jews for they deemed the Semites the killers of
Jesus.
f) Hitler,
Franco and Mussolini were given VETO power over whom the pope could
appoint as a bishop in Germany, Spain and Italy. In turn they
surtaxed the Catholics and gave the money to the Vatican. Hitler
wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, as excerpted,
“The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new
Germany means the acknowledgment of the National Socialist state by
the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and
unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism [Nazism] is
hostile to religion is a lie.” – Adolf
Hitler writing to the Nazi Party, 22 July
1933
g) Hitler
worked CLOSELY with Pope Pius in converting Germanic society and
supporting the church. The
Church absorbed Nazi ideals and preached them as part of their
sermons; in turn Hitler placed Catholic teachings in public
education.
h) Due
to Hitler’s involvement with the Church he began enacting doctrines
of the Church as law. He outlawed all abortion, raged a death war on
all homosexuals, and demanded corporal punishment in schools and
home. Many times Hitler addressed the church and promised that
Germany would implement its teachings: “The National Socialist
State professes its allegiance to positive Christianity. It will be
its honest endeavor to protect both the great Christian Confessions
in their rights, to secure them from interference with their
doctrines (Lehren), and in their duties to constitute a harmony with
the views and the exigencies of the State of today.” – Adolf
Hitler to Catholic bishops, assuring them that he would take action
against the new pagan propaganda, 26 June
1934
i) "Providence
has caused me to be Catholic, and I know therefore how to handle this
Church.”- Adolf Hitler, speaking on the
reaction of the Catholic Church to National Socialism in Berlin, 1936
j) Further
Reading.
If you would like to know more about the secret dealings of Hitler
and the Pope via Vatican "privilege", I recommend you a
very resourceful book entitled Hitler’s
Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII,
by John Cornwell
2. How Christianity Catalyzed the Holocaust:
(Caption: Hitler
with Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin. It was
taken on April 20, 1939, when Orsenigo celebrated Hitler’s
birthday. The celebrations were initiated by Pope Pius XII, and
became a tradition.)
1. Hitler’s
antisemitism grew out of his Christian education. Austria and Germany
overwhelmingly were Christian nations at this turning point,
particularly holding that Jews were inferior to all Aryan Christians.
The Christians blamed the Jews for the killing of Jesus. Jewish
hatred did not actually spring from Hitler, it came from the
preaching of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers throughout
Germany for hundreds of years. The founding Protestant leader, Martin
Luther himself, held a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish
religion. In his book On
the Jews and their Lies,
Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in Protestant Germany up
until World War 2. Hitler expressed a great admiration for Martin
Luther by constantly quoting his works and beliefs.
2. Now, you must remember before Hitler rose to Chancellor of Germany the country was in a deep economic depression due to the Versailles treaty. The Versailles treaty demanded that Germans made financial reparations for the previous war and Germany simply was not at all self-sufficient enough in order to pay the debt. Hitler was the leader that raised Germany out of the depression and brought them back to a world recognized power. Due to his annulment of the financial woes of the Germanic people, Hitler became their redeemer and anointed leader of the German Reich Christian Church in 1933. This placed him in power of the German-Christian Socialist movement, powering Hitler authority over their individually legislated, political and religious agendas. It united all denominations, mainly Protestant, Catholic and Lutheran people to instill faith in a national Christianity.
3. "If
anyone can lay claim to God's help, then it is Hitler, for without
God's benevolent fatherly hand, without his blessing, the nation
would not be where it stands today. It is an unbelievable miracle
that God has bestowed on our people." - Minister
Rust’s speech to mass meeting of German Christians,
June 1933
4. The
closeness between Hitler and the Church was demonstrated on some
annual occasions. “[...]Warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in
the name of the bishops and each diocese in Germany with fervent
prayers which the Catholics of Germany are sending to heaven on their
altars.” - Cardinal Bertram of Berlin,
as addressed each April 20 to honor Hitler's Birthday
3. Nazis' Widespread FORCED Christian Conversions:
a)
In the 1920s, Hitler’s German Workers’ Party (pre-Nazi term)
adopted a “Programme” with twenty-five points (the Nazi
“constitution”). In point twenty-four, their intent clearly
demonstrates, from the very beginning, their stand in favor of a
“positive” Christianity: “We demand liberty for all religious
denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and
do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German
race. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does
not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular
confession...” - Hitler’s
German Workers’ Party "Programme”; Positive
Christianity endorsement
b)
The Nazi regime started a youth movement which preached its agenda to
impressionable children. Hitler backed up the notion that all people
need faith and religious education: “By helping to raise man above
the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the
securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from
present-day mankind its education-based, religious- dogmatic
principles-- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles--by
abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an
equivalent,te result will be a grave shock to the foundations of
their existence.” – Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf
c)
The Nazi regime began to control schools insisting that Christianity
was taught.
d)
The Nazi regime included anti-Semitic Christian writings in textbooks
and they were not removed from Christian doctrines until 1961.
e)
The Nazi regime having full blown power over the people began to
forcibly convert all its military.
f)
The Nazi regime forced the German soldiers to wear religious symbols
such as the swastika and they placed religious sayings on military
gear. Exampled in this photograph of the German army belt buckle (I
believe my Opa had one), it reads “Gott Mit Uns”; for those of
you who do not speak German it is translated as 'God With Us'.
g)
The German troops were often forced to get sprinkled with holy water
and listen to a sermon by a Catholic priest before going on a
maneuver.
h)
The Nazis created a secret service called the “SS Reich” that
would act as spies on the dealings of other citizens. If anyone was
suspected of heresy-acting not only against the Socialist party but
the CHURCH DOCTRINE entirely, too - they would be prosecuted.
4. Hitler's Many Self-Attestations to Christianity:
Adolf
Hitler’s speeches and proclamations clearly reveal his faith and
warm feelings toward an ideal, Christianized Germany even more.
Nazism presents an embarrassment to Christianity and demonstrates the
danger of their faith, so many theists misleadingly pin him onto
other theistic views. The following words from Hitler show his
disdain for atheism and pagan cults, revealing the strength of his
Christian feelings:
1. “National
Socialism is not a cult-movement-- a movement for worship; it is
exclusively a ‘volkic’ political doctrine based upon racial
principles. In its purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and
leadership of a people defined by a common blood-relationship... We
will not allow mystically- minded occult folk with a passion for
exploring the secrets of the world beyond to steal into our Movement.
Such folk are not National Socialists, but something else-- in any
case something which has nothing to do with us. At the head of our
programme there stand no secret surmisings but clear-cut perception
and straightforward profession of belief..." (Quote
continues below)
1-a. "
[-] But since we set as the central point of this perception and of
this profession of belief the maintenance and hence the security for
the future of a being formed by God, we thus serve the maintenance of
a divine work and fulfill a divine will-- not in the secret twilight
of a new house of worship, but openly before the face of the Lord…
Our worship is exclusively the cultivation of the natural, and for
that reason, because natural, therefore God-willed. Our humility is
the unconditional submission before the divine laws of existence so
far as they are known to us men.” - Adolf
Hitler in Nuremberg, September 6th, 1938
1-b. Christians
have always accused Hitler of believing in pagan cult mythology. What
is written here clearly expresses his stand against cults.
Consecutively, the followed notices Hitler using the Christian Bible
in order to attack the Jews and uphold his Antisemitism.)
2. "My
feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.
It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few
followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men
to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a
sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a
man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last
rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the
world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years,
with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the
fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the
Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow my self to be cheated,
but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if
there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly
it is the distress that daily grows . For as a Christian I have also
a duty to my own people." – Adolf
Hitler, Giving a Speech on 12 April 1922
3. "Christianity
could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was
absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars.
Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take
form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute
presupposition." – Adolf
Hitler Mein Kampf
3-a. (Here
it is quite obvious here that Hitler is referring to destructing the
Judaism alters on which Christianity was founded.)
4. "The
personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the
living shape of the Jew." – Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf
4-a. The
idea of the devil and the Jew came out of medieval anti-Jewish
beliefs based on interpretations from the Bible. Martin Luther, and
teachers after him, continued this “tradition” up until the 20th
century.
5. "With
satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait
for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus
stealing her from her people." – Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf
5-a. It’s
common in war for one race to rape another so that they can defile
the race and assimilate their own. Hitler speaks about this very
tactic here.
6. “The
best characterization is provided by the product of this religious
education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his
spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two
thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.
Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the
Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from
the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as
always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business
existence. In return, Christ was nailed to
the cross, while our present- day party Christians debase themselves
to begging for Jewish votes at elections and later try to arrange
political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties-- and this against
their own nation.” – Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf
7. "…[T]he
fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.”
– Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
7-a. See Genesis
Chapter 3, in which humankind is cast from Eden for their sins.
Hitler compares this to the need to exterminate the Jews for their
sin against Christ.
8. “Hence
today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the
Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting
for the work of the Lord.” – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
9. “The
Antisemitism of the new [Christian Social] movement was based on
religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.” – Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf
9-a. This
quote is very interesting for it disperses the idea that Hitler raged
war due to being an Aryan supremacist. He states quite clearly that
he has a problem with Jews for their belief not race. That is why
many German Jews died in WW2 regardless of their Aryan nationality.
10. “Only
in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first
prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and
only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which
does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and
uncertain.” – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
10-a. Here
Hitler is admitting that his war against the Jews were so successful
because of his strong Christian Spirituality.
11. “Along
with the fight for a purer morality we have taken upon ourselves the
struggle against the decomposition of our religion. We have therefore
taken up the struggle against the Godless movement, and not just with
a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out. And above all
we have dragged the priests out of the lowlands of the political
party struggle and have brought them back into the church."
- Adolf Hitler, In
celebration of Germany’s exit from the League of Nations, maintains
that the Third Reich actively implements the Christian agenda,
1919-1945
12. For
further reading:
12-a. Norman
H. Baynes, ed. The
Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1;
19-20. Oxford University; 1942
12-b.
Richard Steigmann-Gall. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of
Christianity
5. Hitler's HATRED for Atheism:
The following quotes DIRECTLY illuminate how Adolf Hitler strongly resented Atheists, finding nonbelievers in their core principle nothing but utterly repulsive. Sufficient as ever in only his proud words, I avenge my community by re-publicizing Adolf Hitler's reprehensible sentiments toward those not God-believing:
1. "For
their interests [the Church's] cannot fail to coincide with ours [the
National Socialists] alike in our fight against the symptoms of
degeneracy in the world of to-day, in our fight against a Bolshevist
culture, against atheistic movement,
against criminality, and in our struggle for a consciousness of a
community in our national life" - The
Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April
1922-August 1939
2. “We
were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have
therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and
that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped
it out.” - Adolf Hitler, during a
speech in Berlin, 24 October 1933
2-a. This
statement clearly refutes modern Christians who claim Hitler was an
Atheist. Hitler wanted to form a society in which ALL people
worshiped Jesus and considered any questioning of such to be heresy.
The Holocaust was like a modern inquisition, killing all who did not
accept Jesus. Though more Jews were killed than any others, it should
be noted that MANY ARYAN pagans and atheists were murdered for their
non-belief in Christ.
3. "I
often feel that we will have to undergo all the trials the devil and
hell can devise before we achieve Final Victory....I may be no pious
churchgoer, but deep within me I am nevertheless a devout man. That
is to say, I believe that he who fights valiantly obeying the laws
which a god has established and who never capitulates but instead
gathers his forces time after time and always pushes forward—such a
man will not be abandoned by the Lawgiver. Rather he will ultimately
receive the blessing of Providence. And that blessing has been
imparted to all great spirits in history." - Adolf Hitler,
as quoted from Albert Speer's Inside the
Third Reich: Memoirs (1982)
4. "We
do not judge merely by artistic or military standards or even by
purely scientific ones. We judge by the spiritual energy which a
people is capable of putting forth, which will enable it in ten years
to recapture what is has lost in a thousand years of warfare. I
intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in
this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-- I would say
divine-- creation.... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years
standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us."
- Adolf Hitler, from Secret
Conversations with Hitler (page 68)
5. “And
now Staatspräsident Bolz says that Christianity and the Catholic
faith are threatened by us. And to that charge I can answer: In the
first place it is Christians and not international atheists who now
stand at the head of Germany. I do not merely talk of Christianity,
no, I also profess that I will never ally myself with the parties
which destroy Christianity. If many wish today to take threatened
Christianity under their protection, where, I would ask, was
Christianity for them in these fourteen years when they went arm in
arm with atheism? No, never and at no time was greater internal
damage done to Christianity than in these fourteen years when a
party, theoretically Christian, sat with those who denied God in
one[,] same Government.” - Adolf Hitler, Delivering
Historic Speech in Stuttgart, 15 February
1933
6. Third Reich's Conspiracy to Christianize Already Widely Overruled Masses:
Nazi
World War II records (and such premonitory filings that preceded
alike) have preserved documents which, in possessing greater, grander
details, do well to illuminate the Holocaust's Christian
involvements; and so noted in part here:
1. "Around
1937, when Hitler heard that at the instigation of the party and the
SS vast numbers of his followers had left the church because it was
obstinately opposing his plans, he nevertheless ordered his chief
associates, above all Goering and Gobbels, to remain members of the
church. He too would remain a member of the Catholic Church, he said.
And in fact he remained in the church until his suicide..."
- from
Inside the Third Reich by
Albert Speer (pages
95-96)
2. A
consecutive historic occurrence is better explained by a scholar from
a renowned Christian organization, in fact, called Kinsman
Redeemer Ministries: “Adolf Hitler and true
National Socialism were confident that as the harmful influence of
atheistic or religious Jews and Judeo thinking was removed from
society, that all true Christians would return to the pure faith in
Jesus Christ. A return to what the first Christians said and stood
for was not only the Protestant cry of Martin Luther, but also the
official position of true National Socialism. The German people were
earnest God-fearing Christians, seeking only to implement in the
political realm, the theology of Christ Himself...” – from
Positive Christianity by
Pastor Mark Downey, 2009
3. "After
April 7, 1933, civil servants in Germany were required to prove that
they were not Jews. Because births had been registered by the state
only since 1874, the church was called upon to provide many records.
The Catholic Church cooperated right up to the end of the war.
Likewise, after the 1935 Noremberg laws that forbade marriage between
Aryans and non-Aryans, most Catholic priests did not perform such
ceremonies, even though the number of Jewish conversions to
Catholicism was accelerating because of the persecution." - from
Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography of Joseph
Ratzinger, by John L. Allen Jr.
7. Hoaxed Statements Alleged to Hitler in the Infamously folly Table Talk:
Many opposed to the fact that Hitler was a Christian immediately cite Hitler's “secret conversations” within Table Talk, a publication where anti-Christian statements allegedly made by Hitler are compiled by a suspicious biographer. However, these alleged statements simply have no empirical standpoint whatsoever in
any historic debate because Table Talk never unearthed proof of its credibility. In spite of myth, these supposed
anti-Christian “secrets” were not recorded or captured by audio,
film or radio broadcasts, and furthermore the specific translator had
a burning anti-Catholic passion. Altogether, these Table
Talk conversations are left highly
questionable. But what's ultimately problematic about this alleged
dissatisfaction with Christianity is its lack of accurate context to
History's Adolf Hitler, the one who proved his Christian allegiances
useful. Nevertheless, here consecutive is my point-by-point rebuttal:
1. As
Jim Walker explains, “Those who deny Hitler as a Christian will
invariably find the recorded table talk conversations of Hitler from
1941 to 1944 as incontrovertible evidence that he could not have been
a Christian. The source usually comes from the English translation
(from a French translation) edition by Norman Cameron and R. H.
Stevens, with an introduction by H.R. Trevor-Roper. The problem with
these anti-Christian quotes is that the German text of the
table-talk does not include them.”
1-a. In
fact, in the original German text and throughout each translation
afterward, these quotes corroborate
Hitler’s well-publicized infatuation with his savior, Jesus Christ.
2. “Originally,
Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism the destroyer.
Nevertheless, the Galilean, who later was called Christ, intended
something quite different. He must be regarded as a popular leader
who too up His position against Jewry. Galilee was a colony where the
Romans had probably installed Gallic legionaries, and it's certain
that Jesus was not a Jew. The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the
son of a whore-- of a whore and a Roman soldier ... The decisive
falsification of Jesus' doctrine was the work of St. Paul. He gave
himself to this work with subtlety and for purposes of personal
exploitation. For the Galiean's object was to liberate His country
from Jewish oppression. He set Himself against Jewish capitalism, and
that's why the Jews liquidated Him.” – Adolf
Hitler, Table-Talk (page 76)
3. “Christ was an Aryan, and St. Paul used his doctrine to mobilize the criminal underworld and thus organize a proto-Bolshevism.” – Adolf Hitler, Table-Talk (page 143)
Given
that what is sound are Hitler's own public proclamations and
autobiographical testaments, it holds to reason that these listed
quotes are far likelier to be valid given at least their consistency.
After all, at least these Pro-Jesus statements were featured
in every publication,
whereas his uncharacteristic, anti-Christian whining mysteriously
found its way into newer translations. But if you are still curious,
you can read more about Table
Talk hoax
controversies here.
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