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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
The national Socialist party (Nazis) were a roman catholic party, a christian party, with full coplicit support from the vatican in their attempted extermnination of the hebrew people.
crosses upon crosses uon crosses
and saying hitler was a pagan means nothing. many of our leadres in washington, republicana nd democrat, are actually agnostic or athiest but cannnot say so, to keep the support of the sheep.
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now i'd say the iron cross has lost any catholic meaning it once had (from the teutonic knights in the 14 C), just as the swastika has lost it's original meaning (ancient buddhist and also hindu good luck symbol).
i'd say naming the nazis as a catholic organisation is going a bit too far.
hitler & cronies set up a state run church (the reich church) but it didn't get very far popularity wise.
german, nazi christians tried to restructure the whole of christianity into a racially pure, new brand. they wanted to clear the church teachings of all the ungerman elements, particually the influence from the vatican.
it is complicated though because you can't just declare war on the catholic church. it's unconcievable.
they are a force to be reckoned with, and that's why the nazis cooperated with them. also, there was the issue of the 22 million catholics in germany at the time, hence the smiley propaganda posters of hitler and bishops.
when talking about nazi germany you have to get past the carefully constructed propaganda shroud and get to the reality - it's what makes it so difficult.
anyway, this is all good revision for my exam on this in january.