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In public statements made during his rule, Hitler continued to speak positively about a Nazi vision of Christian German culture, [158] and his belief in an Aryan Christ. Hitler added that Saint Paul , as a Jew, had falsified Jesus' message – a theme Hitler repeated in private conversations, including, in October 1941, when he made the ...
The Nazis terrorised supporters of Bodelschwingh, and they also dissolved various church organisations, ensuring the election of Müller as the new Reich Bishop. [25] Müller's heretical views of St Paul and his arguments against the Semitic origins of Christ and the Bible quickly alienated sections of the Protestant church.
Historians and theologians generally agree that the objective of the Nazi policy towards religion was to remove explicitly Jewish content from the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Pauline Epistles), transforming the Christian faith into a new religion, completely cleansed from any Jewish element and conciliate it ...
In the 1920 programme of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Adolf Hitler first mentioned the phrase "Positive Christianity".The Nazi Party did not wish to tie itself to a particular Christian denomination but with Christianity in general, [6] [7] and sought freedom of religion for all denominations "so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race."
Some Nazis, such as Hans Kerrl, who served as Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs, advocated "Positive Christianity", a uniquely Nazi form of Christianity that rejected Christianity's Jewish origins and the Old Testament, and portrayed "true" Christianity as a fight against Jews, with Jesus depicted as an Aryan.
The Nazis co-opted the term Gleichschaltung (coordination) to mean conformity and subservience to the Nazi Party line: "there was to be no law but Hitler, and ultimately no god but Hitler". [9] Other authors, such as Richard Steigmann-Gall , argue that there were anti-Christian individuals in the Nazi Party but that they did not represent the ...
A video making the rounds on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube claims that Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company, was involved in deadly medical testing on Auschwitz prisoners during the Holocaust.
Although women did not have political power in Nazi Germany, a circle of influence did exist around Adolf Hitler. Within this circle, Hitler became acquainted with the British Unity Mitford and Magda Goebbels, wife of the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Magda Goebbels became known by the nickname "First Lady of the Third Reich": she ...