The Christian Nazis!

When Hitler came to power, 98% of the German populace were Christians; the bulk of them being protestant Lutherans. Less than 1% of the population were Jewish!


Considering the lessons of love and altruism associated with Christian teachings, I have often wondered what could have prompted such deep rooted anti-Semitic hatred among the German followers of Christ! How could they justify the heinous nature of their genocidal apparatus? Could one man be so charismatic as to mesmerize millions of staunch Christians into complicity with such extreme social pathology.


Here is one clue:


Hitler was not the harbinger of ant-Semitism.. On the contrary, he was a by product of it. Hatred of the Jews had been festering centuries before he was born. Furthermore, anti-Semitism would be found in every country Jews settled in. But it was German Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, who finally acted upon long held anti-Semitic sentiments and committed murder with the blessings of the state...all in the name of their political rock-star: Adolph Hitler.


The racist anti-Jewish Nazi ideology converged with anti-Semitism that was historically widespread throughout Europe at the time and had deep roots in Christian history. For all too many Christians, traditional interpretations of religious scriptures seemed to support these prejudices.


While Hitler was a persuasive and talented orator, that alone would not have brought a high school drop out like himself to power. It took a bad economy, high unemployment and campaign promises of relief. He seemed to be the answer to their prayers. Indeed . to most, he was a godsend; and, he promptly set out to solidify that image. Finally, after several failures, the time was ripe to facilitate an appeal for people to accept a known uneducated radical as their Fuerher .. They did!


For the most part, the laity, and their professional clergy, modified their Christian front to accommodate Hitler’s Nazism;sometimes under duress but most often due to a sense of revived hope and renewed confidence in the German spirit. Either way, Hitler attained his goal and became the face of unspeakable evil... placing the very souls of the German people in jeopardy as they forsook their Christian values for material gain and to exact personal animus against a hapless people: Men women and children who were either Jewish, non-German or those who did not fit the Aryan model.


This is the Christian legacy of Germany!
The Catholic Church helped many Nazis escape Germany after the war.

I try to tell Christians that Nazi's were Catholic Christians. They try to deny it but it's true. I was reading about the scientists who fled Germany when Hitler took over and I read this:

In Germany, all children have to take religious instruction in school. I was in the General Lutheran instruction group and instead of having the philosophy professor from the boys high school, we suddenly had somebody else. He turned out to be a Nazi and his main aim was to tell us that the Jews were Jews and they had killed Christ and they were awful people. That was essentially his message.

So the Nazi's were Christians. They used religion they didn't deny religion.
 
German people aren't that religious, and haven't been for more than 100 years.

Don't be silly. It says here they are taught religion in school

In Germany, all children have to take religious instruction in school. I was in the General Lutheran instruction group and instead of having the philosophy professor from the boys high school, we suddenly had somebody else. He turned out to be a Nazi and his main aim was to tell us that the Jews were Jews and they had killed Christ and they were awful people.
 
When Hitler came to power, 98% of the German populace were Christians; the bulk of them being protestant Lutherans. Less than 1% of the population were Jewish!


Considering the lessons of love and altruism associated with Christian teachings, I have often wondered what could have prompted such deep rooted anti-Semitic hatred among the German followers of Christ! How could they justify the heinous nature of their genocidal apparatus? Could one man be so charismatic as to mesmerize millions of staunch Christians into complicity with such extreme social pathology.


Here is one clue:


Hitler was not the harbinger of ant-Semitism.. On the contrary, he was a by product of it. Hatred of the Jews had been festering centuries before he was born. Furthermore, anti-Semitism would be found in every country Jews settled in. But it was German Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, who finally acted upon long held anti-Semitic sentiments and committed murder with the blessings of the state...all in the name of their political rock-star: Adolph Hitler.


The racist anti-Jewish Nazi ideology converged with anti-Semitism that was historically widespread throughout Europe at the time and had deep roots in Christian history. For all too many Christians, traditional interpretations of religious scriptures seemed to support these prejudices.


While Hitler was a persuasive and talented orator, that alone would not have brought a high school drop out like himself to power. It took a bad economy, high unemployment and campaign promises of relief. He seemed to be the answer to their prayers. Indeed . to most, he was a godsend; and, he promptly set out to solidify that image. Finally, after several failures, the time was ripe to facilitate an appeal for people to accept a known uneducated radical as their Fuerher .. They did!


For the most part, the laity, and their professional clergy, modified their Christian front to accommodate Hitler’s Nazism;sometimes under duress but most often due to a sense of revived hope and renewed confidence in the German spirit. Either way, Hitler attained his goal and became the face of unspeakable evil... placing the very souls of the German people in jeopardy as they forsook their Christian values for material gain and to exact personal animus against a hapless people: Men women and children who were either Jewish, non-German or those who did not fit the Aryan model.


This is the Christian legacy of Germany!

It was also mostly Christians that defeated the Nazis as well as Japan.
 
They were certainly socialists who believed in big government. That is for certain.
 
When Hitler came to power, 98% of the German populace were Christians; the bulk of them being protestant Lutherans. Less than 1% of the population were Jewish! ...

0.5% of the Germans were Jews - the most of them were not very religious. The most Christians were not very religious too. The constitution was a typical atheistic constitution. what was totally normal in this days in the western world. I guess most people were convinced the Christian religion is an antiquated nonsense from yesterday. Very similar perhaps to the situation in the USA and all over Europe today. I don't know how many Germans were really a member of a Christian church in those days - but 98% is to high. Lots of Germans were Commies for example. Anyway this plays not a big role - because this shows only that Christians are stupid, when they believe in people like Adolf Hitler or others of his category. But how to know this when it starts? Unfortunatelly most people are not very good in thinking with the logic of time, because such a form to think needs an immense knowledge and also empathy in different forms of cultures. Panta rei. The Hitler of 1933 was another Hitler as in 1945 - and now is the year 2019. The people in the world had a lot of time to think - if they would think at all. The people under Hitler were under pressure. The time moved fast under the Nazis. Whatever.

From the leading Nazis and their private army SS was by the way nearly no one a member of a Christian church. The SA sang lots of antichristian songs even in the 1920ies. "Beat Faulhaber and his Blacks until they are pulp" I remember in the moment text from such a song. Faulhaber was Cardinal in Munich. "Blacks" were not negroes but clerics.

A little renaissance of the Christian religion started after Hitler. The protestants for example founded a common church, the "EKD" (because partially their church was misused under Hitler) and the new constitution of the federal republic based very strict on Christian values. It was the first time since 200 years that the word "god" was written in a German constitution again. It starts "Conscious of their responsibility before God and man, Inspired by the determination to promote world peace as an equal partner in a united Europe, the German people, in the exercise of their constituent power, have adopted this Basic Law. ... " Article 1 (1) "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority."


 
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