It is amazing how many people today believe that Nazis saw themselves as Christians.
It’s amazing that National Socialists are considered “far right”
“Occult Roots” is an excellent read.
To me, the link between Hitler in the occult is undeniable. The attempt to portray Hitler as a Christian is ridiculous, revisionist history.
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The mention and focus of some paragraphs are ‘neopagans’. A term that didn’t really apply until the 60’s, and then it was a broad concept rather than an actual organized movement.
I’ve never considered Nazi’s as Christian, nor even ‘right wing’ as the article mentions. I’ve never come across anything popular and credible that claims the Nazi’s where Christian.
The Nazi party for the most part transitioned from Ariosophy and Aryanism into a working political belief with roots as far back as the late Roman empire — obviously pagans, but organized militarily to lay the smack on Rome and further glorify their Aryan purity.
The bottom line was the germanic people considered themselves purebreds while viewing the outsiders as over breed rats that then focused on the Jews internally.
Occult for the Nazi’s? Yes. Paganism? Not really by design, just by circumstance. More socialist and racist fascists. Much like our modern day Liberal.
Hitler was a nationalist but everything else about him was hard Left.
It's too bad the biggest proponent of the "Hitler was a faithful Catholic" lie on FR apparently isn't around to read it anymore.
Nazism was an odd amalgam of rightist and leftist ideas, but to discuss them you have to return to what right and left originally meant and still should.
The terms arose during the French Revolution, when the aristos/royalists, believers in a human hierarchy of authority (generally hereditary) sat on the Right of the hall, while the liberals/revolutionaries, believers in human freedom and equality, sat on the Left.
The Left has since meant, in theory though by no means always in practice, expansion of human equality. Since legal and social equality (liberte, fraternite) was gained about a century ago, they have since focused on economic equality, and are ready to kill you if you don’t cooperate.
The Right in Europe has generally been in retreat, but with occasional resurgences based on blood and soil, Church and Crown.
The term Right has essentially no meaning in America, at least since the defeat of the CSA and Jim Crow. The only thing modern American conservatism has in common with the traditional European Right is opposition to the Left.
The Left in modern America, OTOH, is essentially the same thing as the European Left, but wishy-washy and unwilling to speak out about their true goals. For much of American history there was no Left here, either, as they only showed up during the Progressive era and especially in the 30s.
The Nazis were National Socialists rather than International Socialists. Their slogan was, “Germans of all classes united against the rest of the world,” rather than “Workers of the world united against the middle classes.”
But they also dragged in a great deal of stuff from the old German and European Right. Blood and soil. To the extent that they weren’t conservative at all, they were reactionary, reverting to middle ages and even earlier.
Their plans for the Slavs were serfdom. Their religious enthusiasms were for pre-Christian authentically German neopaganisms.
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