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Hitler had fully discarded belief in the Judeo-Christian conception of God by 1937, writes Domarus, but continued to use the word "God" in speeches – but it was not the God "who has been worshiped for millennia", but a new and peculiarly German "god" who "let iron grow". Thus Hitler told the British journalist Ward Price in 1937: "I believe ...
[11] [13] Exceptions were made for a small percentage of Slavs who were seen by the Nazis to be descended from German settlers and therefore fit to be Germanised to be considered part of the Aryan folk or nation. [14] Hitler described Slavs as a mass of born slaves who feel the need of a master. [15] Hitler declared that the Geneva Conventions ...
Armenians were considered an Aryan people, both by the Nazi state and Alfred Rosenberg's racial theory. However, Adolf Hitler personally did not trust them. [98] Due to this, the Armenian Legion was mainly stationed in the Netherlands. [139] Speaking about military units from Soviet peoples, Hitler said: "I don't know about these Georgians.
Instead of the cross, its symbol was the orb of the sun in the form of a sun cross and in principle it was the elevation of the Nordic race, a rejection of Old Europe's traditional divine revelation dogmas, and the promotion of a German God. [22] For Rosenberg the Aryan-Nordic race was divine, and god was in the blood and its culture was the ...
Although the physical ideal for the Nazis was the Nordic-Aryan, contrary to popular belief they did not discriminate against individuals who did not have these features (light hair and light eyes), as long as the individual could prove their ancestry to be Aryan in accordance to the Nuremberg Laws. [232] [233]
[188] These different religious aspects of Nazism have led some scholars to consider Nazism, like communism, to be a kind of political religion. [189] Hitler's plan, for example, to erect a magnificent new capital in Berlin (Welthauptstadt Germania), has been described as his attempt to build a version of the New Jerusalem. [190]
In Hitler's belief God created a world in which different races fought each other for survival along social darwinist lines. He often referred to "Providence" guarding and guiding the "Aryan race", supposedly the bearer of civilization, in its fight against the Jews, supposedly the enemies of all civilization.
The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS. Martin Secker & Warburg. (in English) Eric Kurlander. Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017 ISBN 978-0-300-18945-2; Richard Steigmann-Gall. 2003: The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Cambridge ...