01-19-2006, 05:16 AM
Bharatvarsh,
regarding Hitler, nazis, Germany and its Churches during WWII, if you have any doubts, please see Hitler's Christianity (Hitler's own Christian convictions can be found in the first two links on this page)
In particular, go through the pages on:
Quotes from Hitler's Henchmen and nazi Sympathizers
Christianity in Europe during WWII
The most enlightening page of them all in some respects. Most of the Christian civilians killed by the nazi regime were those of Jewish ancestry, <b>given up to the nazi government by their own churches</b> who were convinced that "once a jew, always a jew" even though these people had converted. That's because anti-Semitism had been ingrained in Europe since the start of Christianity, reinforced by the Romans, Luther, in church and schools. Uniquely, they didn't consider Jewish converts to Christianity as Christians.
Other Christians killed by the nazis were done so for their political reasons, as the records of the war tribunals themselves indicate: nazi German officers make it clear that (non-Jewish) Christians were killed only for political involvement and not at all on religious grounds.
And the same link also shows that the only main church protesting nazism did so not because it was against the anti-Semitism (its famous leaders admitted they were anti-Semitic too), but because they wanted more political freedom.
Nazi Photos
Don't forget to scroll down to the "Nazi Graves" section of photos.
Also you should go through some of the transliterations of the Nuremberg trials (nizkor.org should have them). What the nazi leaders said about their religious convictions is pretty obvious. This is the most famous one, I believe:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->When asked if there were any other anti-Semitic publications, other than Der Stürmer, published in Germany, Streicher replied:
Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In this book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them...
-Julius Streicher, (Trial of The Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945, Vol. 12)'''<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Before WWII, Streicher made it clear that he is emulating Christ himself in this incomprehensible hatred of Jewish people:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
-Julius Streicher (Hitler's Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen," Berkley Books, 1990)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And if you harbour any doubts that the evil Julius Streicher didn't "really" believe, then his last words might put those to rest:<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now it goes to God!
-Julius Streicher, as he mounted the gallows platform to his death, (Hitler's Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen," Berkley Books, 1990) <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> (quotes taken from http://www.nobeliefs.com/henchmen.htm)
Christians in America have been trying to whitewash history. Well, they can try all they want, but even in Germany they admit to how much Christianity was to blame for nazism as their never-ending spate of books published on WWII indicate.
For all of the books about the occultism, atheism etc of a handful of nazis (considered even by Hitler to belong to the lunatic fringe), there is no doubt that practically all of Germany and most of the nazi leaders were very much Christian. An American soldier had stated after having been to German villages during WWII that Germany must be the most Christian country in the world.
regarding Hitler, nazis, Germany and its Churches during WWII, if you have any doubts, please see Hitler's Christianity (Hitler's own Christian convictions can be found in the first two links on this page)
In particular, go through the pages on:
Quotes from Hitler's Henchmen and nazi Sympathizers
Christianity in Europe during WWII
The most enlightening page of them all in some respects. Most of the Christian civilians killed by the nazi regime were those of Jewish ancestry, <b>given up to the nazi government by their own churches</b> who were convinced that "once a jew, always a jew" even though these people had converted. That's because anti-Semitism had been ingrained in Europe since the start of Christianity, reinforced by the Romans, Luther, in church and schools. Uniquely, they didn't consider Jewish converts to Christianity as Christians.
Other Christians killed by the nazis were done so for their political reasons, as the records of the war tribunals themselves indicate: nazi German officers make it clear that (non-Jewish) Christians were killed only for political involvement and not at all on religious grounds.
And the same link also shows that the only main church protesting nazism did so not because it was against the anti-Semitism (its famous leaders admitted they were anti-Semitic too), but because they wanted more political freedom.
Nazi Photos
Don't forget to scroll down to the "Nazi Graves" section of photos.
Also you should go through some of the transliterations of the Nuremberg trials (nizkor.org should have them). What the nazi leaders said about their religious convictions is pretty obvious. This is the most famous one, I believe:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->When asked if there were any other anti-Semitic publications, other than Der Stürmer, published in Germany, Streicher replied:
Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In this book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them...
-Julius Streicher, (Trial of The Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945, Vol. 12)'''<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Before WWII, Streicher made it clear that he is emulating Christ himself in this incomprehensible hatred of Jewish people:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
-Julius Streicher (Hitler's Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen," Berkley Books, 1990)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And if you harbour any doubts that the evil Julius Streicher didn't "really" believe, then his last words might put those to rest:<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now it goes to God!
-Julius Streicher, as he mounted the gallows platform to his death, (Hitler's Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen," Berkley Books, 1990) <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> (quotes taken from http://www.nobeliefs.com/henchmen.htm)
Christians in America have been trying to whitewash history. Well, they can try all they want, but even in Germany they admit to how much Christianity was to blame for nazism as their never-ending spate of books published on WWII indicate.
For all of the books about the occultism, atheism etc of a handful of nazis (considered even by Hitler to belong to the lunatic fringe), there is no doubt that practically all of Germany and most of the nazi leaders were very much Christian. An American soldier had stated after having been to German villages during WWII that Germany must be the most Christian country in the world.