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Hitler wrote of the importance of a definite and uniformly accepted Weltanschauung , and noted that the diminished position of religion in Europe had led to a decline in necessary certainties – "yet this human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of religious belief". The various substitutes hitherto offered ...
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 ...
Marlboro (US: / ˈ m ɑː l ˌ b ʌr oʊ /, [2] [3] UK: / ˈ m ɑːr l b ər ə, ˈ m ɔː l-/) [4] is an American brand of cigarettes owned and manufactured by Philip Morris USA (a branch of Altria) within the United States and by Philip Morris International (PMI, now separate from Altria) in most global territories outside the US.
Herman Wirth (1885-1981), a Dutch-German historian, who co-founded the Ahnenerbe, alongside Himmler. Wolfram Sievers (1905-1948) Director of the above mention Ahnenerbe . Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875-1945) was the founder of the Thule Society , a post-WW1 society that had many ideological similarities with Nazism and was interested in the occult.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Hitler himself disdained Christianity, as Alan Bullock noted: [14] In Hitler's eyes, Christianity was a religion fit only for slaves; he detested its ethics in particular. Its teaching, he declared, was a rebellion against the natural law of selection by struggle and the survival of the fittest.
Hitler told Faulhaber that religion was critical to the state, and his goal was to protect the German people from "congenitally afflicted criminals such as now wreak havoc in Spain". Faulhaber replied that the church would "not refuse the state the right to keep these pests away from the national community within the framework of moral law."
The Nazi Party was founded in the wake of the war, [28] and its ideology is often cited as the main factor explaining the Holocaust. [29] From the beginning, the Nazis—not unlike other nation-states in Europe—dreamed of a world without Jews, whom they identified as "the embodiment of everything that was wrong with modernity". [6]