World War II

The Christian Reich: Nearer to my God to thee

If,, as many suppose, Adolf Hitler was a messenger from Providence, an avatar, then there will be rapport and empathy with his holistic coming to terms with the natural order of things as decreed by Providence and mirrored by it.

‘Our creed is, and can be nothing other than: the cultivation of what is natural and, thereby, of what is divinely willed.

Our humility is the unconditional submission to, and respect for, the divine laws of existence as they are revealed to us humans, and our prayer is: the courageous fulfilment of the duties that arise from them.’ ~ The Führer at the 1938 Reich Party Congress

Are We Godless?

We have had to hear this accusation time and again, both today and in years past; thus, in silent bitterness, we have often clenched our fists in the face of such insults from a group of people who, from the safety of their supposed religious convictions, believed they could criticize us.

The Last ‘But’

When people were forced to acknowledge the successes of National Socialism in all areas, the last ‘but’ that remained was always the recourse to the argument of godlessness.

We have learned that it is pointless to argue with such people; however, for we stand head and shoulders above such slander, and today, we no longer think to discuss our faith with just anyone.

Let us then look to the Führer: who has not, time and again, felt deeply moved by his sacred faith in an almighty Providence during his great speeches.

As one with Providence

How often has the Führer declared that, in all his actions, he is at one with Providence, of which he feels himself to be the chosen instrument?

‘I, too, am religious, deeply and sincerely so, and I believe that Providence weighs people and does not destine those who cannot withstand the test of Providence, but instead are broken by it, for greater things.

It is a natural necessity that only the stronger survive the selection process.’

The Führer, November 8th, 1943

Even if all words and concepts were unable to express our faith, the Führer’s sublime work proves to us that his, and thus our, faith is deeply imbued with a genuine awareness of God.

Are We Fighting the Church?

This accusation, along with the first, has been levelled against us time and again by internal enemies, and today, our external enemies, in turn, level it against us in the most spiteful manner.

The Führer has emphasized time and again that the Church and its priests always enjoy the protection of the state, provided they devote themselves exclusively to pastoral care and do not act contrary to the political will of the people: an individual’s struggle with an ancient doctrine of faith is all too often and all too readily equated with ‘state-tolerated’ attacks against the Church.

Seeking God in Nature

On this point, it must be stated as a matter of principle: that throughout history and among all peoples, there have been upheavals in the religious sphere, and no one would deny our generation the right to seek a belief in God that is in keeping with our nature.

The Concept of Race

The Concept of Race, the Central Tenet of the National Socialist Worldview

Our concept of race is merely an expression of a worldview that recognizes a divine commandment in the higher development of humankind.

‘If the world is God’s creation, then the laws of nature by which the universe transforms and develops must be divine, however, the laws that are of particular relevance to us humans are those that shape our genetic heritage and our environment, and therefore, for us, the understanding of race is the highest form of knowledge: everything else must, after all, be built upon it.

The Path to God

Thus, if life, race, work, nature, and homeland are high and supreme values for us, it is not out of arbitrariness, but because the path to God, to the meaning of life, to an order befitting life, to morality, and to faith, leads through all these things.’ Stengel von Rutkowski, On Omnipotence and the Order of Life

Divine Commandments

We therefore believe that races are parts of the divine world order.

Racial preservation, racial purity, and racial selection are therefore divine commandments, and the purer the races are in themselves, the more purely and fully they will be able to develop their inherent abilities and aptitudes, and the greater their contributions will be to fulfilling the purpose of the human order.

The People as a Part of the Order of Creation

The starting point of National Socialist doctrine is the people, for in them we recognize the visible workings of a divine will for order.

Thus, for this reason, the sharpest opponent of National Socialism is any form of international egalitarianism, whether political or religious in nature, for it is only through belonging to and professing allegiance to the people that the individual is subject to the true law of God.

This law obliges him to devote his life to the order willed by God: that is why, for us National Socialists, a violation of the moral principles of our people, of loyalty and obedience, constitutes a true blasphemy.

Man’s highest good is his people:

‘My will, and this must be the creed of us all, is your faith. My faith, just as it is for you, is everything to me in this world.

But the greatest gift God has given me in this world is my people. For in them rests my faith; to them I devote my will, and to them I give my life.’

The Führer on May 1st, 1935

The Clan and the Family as Institutions Ordained by God for the Preservation of Life.

‘Cultivating what is natural, and thus also what is divinely ordained, is our most sacred task.’

So says the Führer

Since the family and the clan are the true pillars of the people, loyalty to them means service to the people. Thus, it is a form of worship, though this service is free from any mystical obscurity of ritualistic acts.

The high points of life, birth, naming, engagement, marriage, and death, become celebrations and festive occasions solely within the family and the clan community

These two institutions, in whose midst the stages of a person’s life first attain their highest meaning, also shape the forms of these events.

We uphold the family and the clan as a divine order against uprooting, massification, and the rootlessness of a disenfranchised international proletariat.

Genuine Faith Versus Hypocritical Piety

All too readily, our opponents attempt to accuse us of religious crimes, or to charge us with ‘paganism’.

And yet, they hypocritically describe the desecration of European cathedrals, monuments, and cultural sites as necessary for the destruction of barbarism.

We counter this will to destroy with an unshakable faith in a just, divine order: our opponents underestimate the strength of our faith.

From the National Socialist worldview has grown our belief in a meaningful world order: it is the backbone of our political will, which emerged victorious from the movement’s period of struggle, and which will also bring this struggle to a victorious conclusion.

To those who, in narrow-minded piety governed solely by dogma, fear that we might lose the war because we are supposedly godless, let it be said: the crowning glory of the National Socialist worldview lies in the deeply inner strength of faith in an all-encompassing divine order, which we solely recognize as the supreme lawgiver for the lives of nations.

The only purpose of religion

‘Religions have meaning only if they serve to preserve the living substance of humanity, for once the peoples as such have perished, neither religions nor states will remain as eternal phenomena.’

The Führer at the 1935 Reich Party Congress.

‘To be a people. That is the religion of our time; through this faith you must be united and strong, and through it you must overcome the Devil and Hell.

Set aside all the minor religions, and fulfil the duty of the one supreme faith: high above the Pope and Luther, unite in it as one faith.’ Ernst Moritz Arndt. Let readers know what you think

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  1. “Hence the National Socialist Movement will not tolerate subversion by occult mystics in search of an afterlife. They are not National Socialists but something different, and in any event, they represent something that has nothing to do with us. At the heart of our program you will not find any mysterious presentiments, rather you will find succinct realization and hence open avowal. Since we place the sustenance and securing of a creature created by God at the center of this realization and avowal, we sustain God’s creation, and it is in this manner that we serve this will. We do not do so at a new cult site bathed in mysterious twilight, but rather, in the open, for the Lord to see.”

    Adolf Hitler – speech at the Culture Convention – Nuremberg, September 6, 1938

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  2. Similarly, the Reich Government, which regards Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the ethics and morality of the Volk, places great value on friendly relations with the Vatican and attempts to develop them. We are filled with a feeling of empathy for the troubles and distress of our Brudervolk in Austria. In all its doings, the Reich Government is conscious of the connection between the fate of all German tribes. The attitude toward the other individual foreign powers is evident from what has already been said. But there as well, where the mutual relations are already encumbered with difficulties, we shall endeavor to reach a settlement. However, the differentiation between victor and vanquished can never be the basis of an understanding.”

    • Adolf Hitler – policy statement on the Enabling Act to the Reichstag – Berlin, March 23, 1933

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  3. “The National Government will therefore regard it as its first and foremost duty to reestablish the unity of spirit and will of our Volk. It will preserve and defend the foundations upon which the power of our nation rests. It will extend its strong, protecting hand over Christianity as the basis of our entire morality, and the family as the germ cell of the body of our Volk and State. It will reawaken in our Volk, beyond the borders of rank and class, its sense of national and political unity and its resultant duties. It will establish reverence for our great past and pride in our old traditions as the basis for the education of our German youth. Thus it will declare a merciless war against spiritual, political and cultural nihilism. Germany must not and will not drown in anarchistic Communism.”

    • The first radio broadcast of Adolf Hitler’s proclamation – February 1, 1933 10:00 PM

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  4. “Sometimes when I see shabbily dressed girls, shivering with cold themselves, collecting with infinite patience for others who are cold, then I have the feeling that they are all apostles of a certain Christianity! This is a Christianity which can claim for itself as no other can: this is the Christianity of a sincere profession of faith, because behind it stands not the word, but the deed! With the aid of this tremendous society, countless people are being relieved of the feeling of social abandonment and isolation. Many are thus regaining the firm belief that they are not completely lost and alone in this world”

    •             Adolf Hitler – opening speech at the new Winterhilfswerk – Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, October 5, 1937

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