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The false point that the nazis identify with christianity is addressed in this article from the American Thinker website:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/the_nazis_and_christianity.html
from the article:
[FONT=times new roman,times]This hostility or indifference toward Christianity in Europe, and especially in Germany, led naturally to a profound anti-Christian sentiment in Nazi Germany. Nazis, more than most Germans, were indifferent or hostile to Christianity. Hitler originally appeared to just ignore Christianity. Dark and Essex write in their 1938 book that Mein Kampf has few passages which in any way refer to religion, none that refer to Hitler's own personal religion, or to the teaching of the Bible, nor any branch of Christian teaching. Jacob Marcus in his 1934 book by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations notes that "Though his parents were both Catholics, Hitler himself has apparently no interest in any organized religion." Marcus also has an entire section in his book about Nazi "anti-Christian anti-Semitism." Rauschning in 1938 wrote [/FONT]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/the_nazis_and_christianity.html
from the article:
[FONT=times new roman,times]This hostility or indifference toward Christianity in Europe, and especially in Germany, led naturally to a profound anti-Christian sentiment in Nazi Germany. Nazis, more than most Germans, were indifferent or hostile to Christianity. Hitler originally appeared to just ignore Christianity. Dark and Essex write in their 1938 book that Mein Kampf has few passages which in any way refer to religion, none that refer to Hitler's own personal religion, or to the teaching of the Bible, nor any branch of Christian teaching. Jacob Marcus in his 1934 book by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations notes that "Though his parents were both Catholics, Hitler himself has apparently no interest in any organized religion." Marcus also has an entire section in his book about Nazi "anti-Christian anti-Semitism." Rauschning in 1938 wrote [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]"The purpose of the National Socialism fight against Christianity is the same: the total destruction of the last and most deep-rooted support of the forces of conservation. The destruction of the spirit of Christianity in Germany is certainly more far-reaching than appears on the surface...Such vestiges of living Christianity as remain are steadily degenerating in the direction of a superficial and unthinking deism" and that ultimate goal as "...the total abolition of Christianity, which is not a mere philosophical fad of the National Socialists but an iron necessity of their system."[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Within a year of taking power, Hitler was saying: [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]"Christianity was incapable of uniting the Germans, and that only an entirely new world-theory was capable of doing so." [/FONT]
How the nazis became "right" and the communists "left." An article from the american thinker...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/the_taming_of_the_masses.html
this explains why there is confusion:
[FONT=times new roman,times]Beginning in the 1930s, at Stalin's direction, communists in the West publicly began to proclaim that they were on the opposite end of the sociopolitical spectrum from what we now call the "fascist" or "right-wing" movements of Europe. In fact, the Fascisti in Italy, the Nazis in Germany, and the Communists in the Soviet Union were all socialists. But the Soviet-backed communists in Europe became embroiled in a deadly power struggle over which socialist party was going to rule the European masses. So they decided to delegitimize the other socialist parties. This was expedited by the simple but effective Orwellian label "counter-revolutionary," which placed any number of socialist groups on the opposite end of the sociopolitical spectrum from the European communists, who by self-anointment became the "true" socialists. To cement this distinction, the Communists started calling themselves "left-wing" revolutionaries and labeled anyone who did not accept their claim to supremacy "right-wing" reactionaries. [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Most twentieth-century history books accept the false "left-wing" label propagated by communists and socialists. They teach that European communists of the 1930s were ultimately suppressed by the Nazis and the Fascisti and that the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan thereafter went on the killing spree we call World War II. According to this version of history, the "left-wing" Soviet socialists were attacked by the "right-wing" Nazi fascists, and the Soviet military swung into action in June of 1941 to defend itself from "right-wing" aggression. [/FONT]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/the_taming_of_the_masses.html
this explains why there is confusion:
[FONT=times new roman,times]Beginning in the 1930s, at Stalin's direction, communists in the West publicly began to proclaim that they were on the opposite end of the sociopolitical spectrum from what we now call the "fascist" or "right-wing" movements of Europe. In fact, the Fascisti in Italy, the Nazis in Germany, and the Communists in the Soviet Union were all socialists. But the Soviet-backed communists in Europe became embroiled in a deadly power struggle over which socialist party was going to rule the European masses. So they decided to delegitimize the other socialist parties. This was expedited by the simple but effective Orwellian label "counter-revolutionary," which placed any number of socialist groups on the opposite end of the sociopolitical spectrum from the European communists, who by self-anointment became the "true" socialists. To cement this distinction, the Communists started calling themselves "left-wing" revolutionaries and labeled anyone who did not accept their claim to supremacy "right-wing" reactionaries. [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Most twentieth-century history books accept the false "left-wing" label propagated by communists and socialists. They teach that European communists of the 1930s were ultimately suppressed by the Nazis and the Fascisti and that the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan thereafter went on the killing spree we call World War II. According to this version of history, the "left-wing" Soviet socialists were attacked by the "right-wing" Nazi fascists, and the Soviet military swung into action in June of 1941 to defend itself from "right-wing" aggression. [/FONT]
'droid.
