Hitler and Christianity

The Nazi Master Plan

If there is any doubt left as to Hitler’s Christianity or his intentions, they are dispelled by papers at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden. These are papers from the Reich and evidenced at Nuremberg that no one had really looked at until recently.

The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches

Hitler wanted to exterminate Christianity. The plan details the steps that were to be taken.

• The removal of the Bible from all churches
• The installation of Mein Kampf as the book of worship in all churches
• The removal of the clergy and related workers from all churches
• The execution of the clergy
• The destruction of churches where people held to actual faith
• Pledges of allegiance to both Hitler and the Reich

Hitler stated “Pure Christianity — the Christianity of the catacombs — is concerned with translating the Christian doctrine into fact. It leads simply to the annihilation of mankind. It is merely wholehearted Bolshevism, under a tinsel of metaphysics. Do you really believe the masses will ever be Christian again? Nonsense. Never again. The tale is finished… but we can hasten matters. The parsons will be made to dig their own graves.”

Rearrange a couple of words and one would think it was Hitler’s hero Stalin who was speaking.

By then end of the war there was a reported 200,000 to 800,000 Christians in concentration camps.

Hitler and the Church

Much ado is made of the actions of the church during Hitler’s reign. Why didn’t the church condemn Hitler?

Well first off, they did. Pius XII did publicly condemn racist oppression — in his wartime Christmas messages and at other times. The church is also credited with saving at least 750,000 Jews from death. According to Pinchas E. Lapide the number is more likely 860,000. This is not insignificant. Yet no one mentions it.

The church also condemned the Nazi policy of murdering mentally and physically disabled Germans with their eugenics policies.

Several Jewish groups petitioned the pope to remain neutral in the hopes that this would give him more diplomatic persuasion.

Pope Pius XII prepared a statement condemning Nazi persecution of Jews in 1942 but he didn’t make it public because of events in the Netherlands. Dutch bishops had protested against the exportation of Dutch Jews, bringing swift retaliation from the Nazis.

In appreciation of what Pius did for the Jews; the World Jewish Congress made a large cash gift to the Vatican in 1945. In the same year, Rabbi Herzog of Jerusalem sent a ’special blessing’ to the Pope ‘for his lifesaving efforts on behalf of the Jews during the Nazi occupation of Italy’; and when Pius died in 1958, Israel’s Foreign Minister Golda Meir gave a him moving eulogy at the United Nations for the same reason.

Albert Einstein in the December 23 1940 issue of Time magazine said, “Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that them had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks… Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.“

Finally, one must also realize that this is not the Church of Cardinal Richelieu possessing an army to deploy. Those days are gone.

Conclusion

The conclusion is inescapable, Hitler was a politician who, like many today, pretend to Christianity while hating all it stands for. He said what needed to be said so that he could have the time to work his will upon the people.

If Hitler could be said to have worshiped anything, it would be nature, or the natural order. Making him a pagan.

And if he believed in a messiah sent by this god of the natural order, it was when he looked in the mirror that he saw that messiah.

He believed that the true Aryan race was at hand and that he was the one ordained by the cosmos to bring it about by helping other races along their evolutionary path to extinction. He did not quibble over morals, for nothing is more moral than nature and what man decides, and then he acted on it doing and saying whatever was necessary to bring it about.

Hitler was the epitome of the amoral pagan atheist.

The pinnacle of the natural man without God.