Well, Hitler was an atheist
Well, no, Hitler was a Christian. Here is the evidence that you are
lying again, Jason:
Hitler's Christian Beliefs and Fanaticism
Selected quotes from Mein Kampf
"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." 1
- Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf
Many pious and dishonest Christians claim that Adolf Hitler was an
atheist. Their assertion however is an outright lie.
Hitler was a Christian. He was raised as a Catholic and attended
Catholic schools. Much of Hitler's philosophy, as detailed in Mein
Kampf, came right out of the Bible, and more importantly, from the
Christian Socialist Movement of early twentieth-century Europe.
Hitler's anti-Semitism grew from his Christian education, which taught
him that Jews were inferior to Christians. Jewish hatred did not
spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests,
and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years.
Hitler took his Christian beliefs for granted and thus concentrated on
politics and military power. Through political power Hitler wanted to
create a German Reich Church (the Third Reich) to instill dogmatic
beliefs in the German populace.
Future generations should understand that Adolph Hitler could not have
come into power without the support of German Christians, Protestant
(Lutheran) Churches and the Vatican.
Suggested Reading: Hitler's Pope, by John Cornwall
Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) and the Vatican greatly assisted
Hitler in his rise to power in Germany. The Reich Concordat, a formal
agreement bewteen Pius XII and Hitler, muzzled German Catholics and
virtually silenced Church criticism of Nazi atrocities. Pius XII
authorized the use of concentration camp labor to maintain church
properties in territory under German control. None of these
irrefutable facts, however, has stopped a movement by the current
pope, John Paul II, to elevate the immoral Pius XII to sainthood.
The following quotes from Mein Kampf prove Hitler held fanatical
religious beliefs. Note the many biblical references.
Volume 1, Chapter 1, In the House of My Parents
Their sword will become our plow, and from the tears of war the daily
bread of future generations will grow.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Note: "Their sword will become our plow" appears to paraphrase Micah
4:3 about beating swords into ploughshares, but his tears of war more
resembles Joel 3:9-10 "Beat your plowshares into swords."
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)
I thank Heaven that a portion of the memories of those days still
remains with me. Woods and meadows were the battlefields on which the
'conflicts' which exist everywhere in life were decided.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of
the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German
schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same
deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the
Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and
strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to
their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be
forced to fight for one's nationality.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 2, Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna
...God have mercy!
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Fate must bring retribution, unless men conciliate Fate while there is
still time. How thankful I am today to the Providence which sent me to
that school!
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become
reality after all, even though this might require long years.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament,
the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this
Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my
German-Austrian people.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across
the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with
political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me
by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human
tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case
as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the
Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural
tradition of a great nation.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time
to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all
events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the
movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl
Lueger and the Christian Social Party.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(Note: Karl Lueger (1844-1910) belonged as a member of the
anti-Semitic Christian Social Party, he became mayor of Vienna and
kept his post until his death.) The man and the movement seemed
'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced
me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become
acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment
turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this
man as the greatest German mayor of all times.
-Adolf Hitler speaking about Dr. Karl Lueger (Mein Kampf)
How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my
attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to
anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my
greatest transformation of all.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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)
Volume 1, Chapter 3 General Political Considerations Based on My
Vienna Period
A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which
without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with
the culture in which its germs can spread.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of
upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul,
the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final
result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their
mind and soul.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
God forbid!
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be
'discovered' by an election.
-Adolf Hitler with his twist on Mark 10:25 (Mein Kampf)
Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old
climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his
national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the
responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are
frightened of.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
For by employing religious force in the service of its political
considerations, the crown aroused a spirit which at that outset it had
not considered possible.
-Adolf Hitler on the state of Rome (Mein Kampf)
For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence--
Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume
the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Even less could I understand how the Christian Social Party at this
same period could achieve such immense power. At that time it had just
reached the apogee of its glory.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
But the power which has always started the greatest religious and
political avalanches in history rolling has from time to immemorial
been the magic of power of the spoken word, and that alone.
Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the
power of speech.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic
Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding
of the spiritual nature of the people.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion,
in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in
Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the
interests of our nationality.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of
Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later
tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of
national interests must take place in a province which is either
absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional
development, or is for some reason rejected.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all
Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national
deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these
things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with
the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the
embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews
just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled
their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or
Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare,
there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for
whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation
or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or
destruction of a state, let alone a party.
-Adolf Hitler speaking like Jesus in Matthew 6:24 (Mein Kampf)
Heaven will smile on us again.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long
as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and
ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the
scheming of political parties.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of
his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be
in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!
-Adolf Hitler [the original comes in italics] (Mein Kampf)
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was
wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and
well-planned.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale
propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological
instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The anti-Semitism of the new movement [Christian Social movement] was
based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked
among the great minds of our people.
-Adolf Hitler speaking about the leader of the Christian Social
movement (Mein Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 4, Munich
But the people on top made a cult of the 'ally,' as if it were the
Golden Calf.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(The Golden calf occurs in Exodus 32:1-4)
Mankind has grown great in eternal struggle, and only in eternal peace
does it perish.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that
it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people
fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 5, The World War
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy
enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an
overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted
to live at this time.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at
the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of
grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the
eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its
organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are
doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the
desired result...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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)
Volume 1, Chapter 6, War Propaganda
I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which
has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the
Christian-Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a
certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its
success.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Certainly we don't have to discuss these matters with the Jews, the
most modern inventors of this cultural perfume. Their whole existence
is an embodied protest against the aesthetics of the Lord's image.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 7, The Revolution
More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had
put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or
scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would
have taken a different turn.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the
endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace
smiled on His ungrateful children.
-Adolf Hitler reflecting on World War I (Mein Kampf)
...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this
change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.
-Hitler recalling a priest's speech after the defeat of WWI (Mein
Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 8, The Beginning of My Political Activity
As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called
'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease
to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a
prescription for everyday life.
-Adolf Hitler reflecting on World War I (Mein Kampf)
The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal
truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the
moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract
soundness of his idea...
-Adolf Hitler reflecting on World War I (Mein Kampf)
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the
more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it
continues to depend on human beings...
If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted
among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the
religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its
exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction
which it attempted to give to a universal human development of
culture, ethics, and morality.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other
great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin
Luther as well as Richard Wagner.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproduction
of our race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the
purity of our blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland,
so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission
allotted it by the creator of the universe.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 10, Causes of the Collapse
Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot
reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides
to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the
Great or a wise character like William I.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Hastily and indifferently, people tried to pass by the unpleasant
truths, as though by such an attitude events could be undone. No, the
fact that our big city population is growing more and more prostituted
in its love life cannot just be denied out of existence; it simply is
so.
...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers
are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to
profanation of the blood and the race.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(Avenged to the tenth generation appears in Deuteronomy 23:2-3)
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this
world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution,
against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general
views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles.
The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things
is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation. In
late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution
which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to
humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who
with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning
of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse
for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served
up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able
to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the
youth...
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays
must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed
in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
-Adolf Hitler sounding like the Moral Majority (Mein Kampf)
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought
to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from
now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to
profane the Almighty.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The works of Mortiz von Schwind, or of a Bo:cklin, were also an inner
experience, but of artists graced by God and not of clowns.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
How widespread the general disunity was growing is shown by an
examination of religious conditions before the War. Here, too, a
unified and effective philosophical conviction had long since been
lost in large sections of the nation. In this the members officially
breaking away from the churches play a less important role than those
who are completely indifferent.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order
to win new followers for their doctrine-- an activity which can boast
but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan
faith in particular-- right here in Europe they lose millions and
millions of inward adherents who either are alien to all religious
life or simply so their own ways. The consequences, particularly from
a moral point of view, are not favorable.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the
dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this
human world the practical existence of a religious faith is not
conceivable.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely
for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral
attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from
the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful
replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine
and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional
authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all
efficacy.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the
struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as
the latter would end in a total anarchy of the state, the former would
end in a worthless religious nihilism.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of
religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply
enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an
implement to perform political or rather business services for them.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 11, Nation and Race
The result of all racial crossing is therefore in brief always the
following:
(a) Lowering of the level of the higher race;
(b) Physical and intellectual regression and hence the beginning of a
slowly but surely progressing sickness.
To bring about such a development is, then, nothing else but to sin
against the will of the eternal creator. And as a sin this act is
rewarded.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Here, of course, we encounter the objection of the modern pacifist, as
truly Jewish in its effrontery as it is stupid! 'Man's role is to
overcome Nature!'
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(Man's dominion over earth appears in Genesis 1:26)
...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his
expulsion.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(See Genesis Chapter 3)
...that is why the prophet seldom has any honor in his own country.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
("For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his
own country." John 4:44)
The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest
knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics
and never a religion.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot pos ess a
religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks
idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely
foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined
which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form.
Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter,
but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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)
At times of the bitterest distress, fury against him finally breaks
out, and the plundered and ruined masses begin to defend themselves
against the scourge of God.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(See Isaiah 63)
This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the
so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews
themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved
peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the
present time.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the
course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood
again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually
learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence
as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can
understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
First, therefore, he goes about making up to the people for his
previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor'
of mankind. Since his new benevolence has a practical foundation, that
the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth; no, whether
he likes it or not, he must reconcile himself to letting as many
people as possible know how deeply he feels the sufferings of the
masses and all the sacrifices that he himself is making to combat
them.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(The left/right hand paraphrase appears to come from Matthew 6:3)
But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to
rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian
who marries a Jewess.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the
living shape of the Jew.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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)
Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized,
sin against the will of eternal Providence...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Providence did not bestow her reward on the victorious sword, but
followed the law of eternal retribution.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 1, Chapter 12 The First Period of Development of the
Nationalist Social German Worker's Party
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change
than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to
the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less
in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism
which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them
forward.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the
intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct
movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this
world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which,
fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its
will against all others.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations
for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient
world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for
its own doctrine.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the
completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the
great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be
replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is
not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle
to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement
and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The characteristic thing about these people is that they rave about
old Germanic heroism, about dim prehistory, stone axes, spear and
shield, but in reality are the greatest cowards that can be imagined.
For the same people who brandish scholarly imitations of old German
tin swords, and wear a dressed bearskin with bull's horns over their
heads, preach for the present nothing but struggle with spiritual
weapons, and run away as fast as they can from every Communist
blackjack.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(The above statement refutes the common impression that Hitler admired
ancient Nordic customs.)
A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the
possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and
obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the
whole public against the evil and for its cure.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 2, Chapter 1, Philosophy and Party
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable
stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight
for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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, and the result will be a grave
shock to the foundations of their existence.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various
basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the
soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being,
etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for
the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this
individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until
emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of
apodictic faith. This, above all, is the fighting factor which makes a
breach and opens the way for the recognition of basic religious views.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits
sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and
contributes to the expulsion from paradise.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 2, Chapter 2, The State
We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism
of a nationality which not only assures the preservation of its
nationality, but by the development of its spiritual and ideal
abilities leads it to the highest freedom.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
the task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to
this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high
mission.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
World history is made by minorities when this minority of number
embodies the majority of will and determination.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the
level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the
consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images
of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in
this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes
with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly,
but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents
are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor
little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than
themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring
unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy,
obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the Church.
Should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is
replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and
continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty
Creator beings such as He Himself created?
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have
been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes,
hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and
order.*
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is
positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to
keep on drilling a born half-ape until people think they have made a
lawyer out of him, while millions of members of the highest
culture-race must remain in entirely unworthy positions; that it is a
sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His most gifted beings
by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to degenerate in
the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs are
trained for intellectual professions.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but
the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 2, Chapter 5, Philosophy and Organization
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)
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a
doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant
changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the
example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in
part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and
research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one
little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to
the whole body the character of a faith.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 2, Chapter 7, The Struggle with the Red Front
I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in
life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the
Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the
health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil
holy water.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
This, it may be that centuries, dissatisfied with the form of their
religious life, yearn for a renewal, and that from this psychic urge
dozens and more men arise who on the basis of their insight and their
knowledge believe themselves as prophets of a new doctrine, or at
least as warriors against an existing one.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The main fighter for the DSP [*Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei* or
German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a
teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the
mission and the future of his movement.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not
even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of
individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 2, Chapter 10, Federalism as a Mask
The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in
his own denomination, of making *people stop just talking
superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not
let God's word be desecrated.* For God's will gave men their form,
their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is
declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], *the most
devout Protestant* could sit beside *the most devout Catholic,*
without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious
convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against
the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them
mutually to respect and esteem one another.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Volume 2, Chapter 13, German Alliance Policy After the War
... the world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a
matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens
its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the
pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must
recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its
concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices
elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last
newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising
pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this
one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor
patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the
smallest boy into the burning plea: '*Almighty God, bless our arms
when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now
whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!'
-Adolf Hitler's prayer (Mein Kampf)
Volume 2, Chapter 14, Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy
...we National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in
foreign policy, namely *to secure for the German people the land and
soil to which they are entitles on this earth.* And this action is the
only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any
sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put
on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily
bread...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force
comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the
heaven-stormer back to Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war
aim of Bolshevism. It requires all the force of a young missionary
idea to raise our people up again, to free them from the snares of
this international serpent...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear
attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with
Beelzebub.*
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(devils through Beelzebub comes from Luke 11:15-19)
Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is a man's right
to have earth to till with his own hands, and the most sacred
sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(till the ground: see Genesis 3:23)
Volume 2, Chapter 15, The Right of Emergency Defense
Viewing all this from a higher vantage-point, we can speak of one
single piece of good fortune in all this misery, which is that, though
men can be befuddled, the heavens cannot be bribed.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr
von Cuno.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Hitler's Henchmen
God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and
unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save
Germany.
-Hermann Goering
I swear before God this holy oath, that I shall give absolute
confidence to the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people.
-Heinrich Himmler (reminding his hearers about the oath taken by all
SS men as well as by the military forces)
(The mass murderer Himmler was brought up as a devout Catholic, like
young Hitler, and he was careful to attend mass regularly.)
You *Einsatztruppen* (task forces) are called upon to fulfill a
repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order
unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for
everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I
have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest
law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and
rats-- against vermin.
-Heinrich Himmler (in a speech to the SS guards)
Julius Streicher, the ninth child of a Roman Catholic primary school
teacher, also became a school teacher in Nuremberg. When Hitler got
released from prison in December 1924, Streicher hailed Hitler's
return to politics as a "gift of God," a judgement the Fuehrer never
forgot. Streicher held an enthusiam about allegations that the Jews
murdered non-Jews in order to obtain blood for the feast of Passover.
He charged that Jews hated Christianity and mankind in general.
Streicher went to grotesque lengths in his attacks on Jews claiming
the discovery that "Christ was not a Jew but an Aryan."
If the danger of the reproduction of that curse of God in the Jewish
blood is finally to come to an end, then there is only one way-- the
extermination of that people whose father is the devil...
-Julius Streicher (in an article in the newspaper *Der Stu:mer*)
Only the Jews, he shouted, had remained victorious after the dreadful
days of World War I. These were the people, he charged, of whom Christ
said, "Its father is the devil."
-Julius Streicher
(See John 8:44, for Christ's accusation of father the devil)
Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals
against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
-Julius Streicher
Now it goes to God!
-Julius Streicher (as he mounted the gallows platform to his death)
Purim Fest, 1946.
-Julius Streicher (his last words before his hanging)
(Purim describes a Jewish holiday, celebrated in the spring to
commemorate the hanging of Haman, biblical oppressor of the Jews.)
No matter what human beings do I shall some day stand before the
judgement seat of the Eternal. I shall answer to Him, and I know he
will judge me innocent.
-Rudolf Hess (in a statement to the Nuremberg Tribunal)
The pious Catholic parents of Joseph Goebbels raised him and his two
brothers in that faith. He spoke of Hitler as "either Christ or St.
John." "Hitler, I love you!" he wrote in his diary.
A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see
one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to
prove that scientifically-- it is a fact.
-Joseph Goebbels (in his attempt to win the eternal gratitude of
Hitler)
May God save Germany!
-Joachim Ribbentrop (his last words before his hanging)
In his Nuremberg cell, Rudolf Hoess told psychologist G.M. Gilbert how
he got brought up in a rigorous Catholic tradition:
My father was really a bigot. He was very strict and fanatical. I
learned that my father took a religious oath at the time of the birth
of my younger sister, dedicating me to God and the priesthood, and
after that leading a Joseph married life [celibacy]. He directed my
entire youthful education toward the goal of making me a priest. I had
to pray and go to church endlessly, do penance over the slightest
misdeed-- praying as punishment for any little unkindness to my
sister, or something like that.
When asked if his father ever beat him, Hoess replied that he was only
punished by prayer. "The thing that made me so stubborn and probably
made me later on cut off from people was his way of making me feel
that I had wronged him personally, and that, since I was spiritually a
minor, he was responsible to God for my sins.
NOTES:
Martin Bormann stood as one of the few top Nazis who rejected
Christianity. At Hitler's round table, Bormann noted that the Fuehrer
did not want to pursue a campaign against the churches. Only in secret
did Bormann hold a grudge against the churches. He carefully avoided
the rouse of suspicion of the Fuehrer. If he could not destroy the
churches, he could at least demand that his subordinates pay little
attention to them.
Alfred Rosenberg stands as the major reason why so many American
Christians think Nazism represented Nordic pagan beliefs instead of
Nazi Christianity. Hitler chose Rosenberg to create a 'religion of the
Blood' knowing that any form of propaganda could prove useful.
However, Hitler also attempted to establish a Reich Christian Church
for the future of Germany. Hitler, himself, did not believe in pagan
cults. Rosenberg charged that the true picture of Jesus had been
distorted by fanatics like Matthew, by materialistic rabbis like Paul,
by African jurists like Tertullian, and the mongrel half-breeds like
St. Augustine. The real Christ, wrote Rosenberg, was an Amorite
Nordic, aggressive, courageous, "a man of true Nordic character," a
revolutionary who opposed the Jewish and Roman systems with sword in
hand, bringing not peace but war (see Matthew 10:34-37). Rosenberg
later went on to say that he favored a "positive Christianity," which
would purify the Nordic race, re-establish the old pagan virtues, and
substitute the fiery spirit of the hero for the crucifixion.