01-18-2006, 10:32 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sorry for the digression but Hitler was not a Christian and neither were most of the top Nazi leaders, to Hitler and others religion was mostly unimportant (and sometimes even an impediment)...
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Some of the Nazis certainly held the above views.
But most of the rank and file Nazis and vast majority of Germans were devout Christians. For them World War II was a Christian crusade to revive a new Holy Roman Empire and also destroy Bolsheviks, Jews etc.
Remember that the Roman catholic Pope fully supported the Nazi movement.
Further German Christians have always hated the Jews.
The Nazi propoganda reels repeatedly showed the Nazis as a new order of "Teutonic Knights". The same Teutonic knights who destroyed the pagan kingdoms of Prussia and Lithuania, the last pagan kingdoms in Europe.
The average German did not call the Swastika as the Swastika. Instead they called it the Haken-cruz (crooked cross). So the Christian theme runs here also.
The Nazi fools stole our Hindu symbol the Swastika and distorted it into a "Haken Cruz".
There is also a stupid myth in Germany that whenever their country is in danger the Holy Roman Emperor Fredrich Barbarossa would come back to defend them.
Sort of like a Christian messiah coming to "save" them.
Fredrich Barbarossa was one the kings sent by the Pope to fight in the Christian crusade to liberate Jerusalem from the muslims.
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Some of the Nazis certainly held the above views.
But most of the rank and file Nazis and vast majority of Germans were devout Christians. For them World War II was a Christian crusade to revive a new Holy Roman Empire and also destroy Bolsheviks, Jews etc.
Remember that the Roman catholic Pope fully supported the Nazi movement.
Further German Christians have always hated the Jews.
The Nazi propoganda reels repeatedly showed the Nazis as a new order of "Teutonic Knights". The same Teutonic knights who destroyed the pagan kingdoms of Prussia and Lithuania, the last pagan kingdoms in Europe.
The average German did not call the Swastika as the Swastika. Instead they called it the Haken-cruz (crooked cross). So the Christian theme runs here also.
The Nazi fools stole our Hindu symbol the Swastika and distorted it into a "Haken Cruz".
There is also a stupid myth in Germany that whenever their country is in danger the Holy Roman Emperor Fredrich Barbarossa would come back to defend them.
Sort of like a Christian messiah coming to "save" them.
Fredrich Barbarossa was one the kings sent by the Pope to fight in the Christian crusade to liberate Jerusalem from the muslims.