Beloved Christian Israelites,
Christian Israelites should reject National Socialism. Christian Israelites should not even admire National Socialism.
National Socialism is an un-Christian, anti-Christian, and ruthless “world view”.
National Socialism is a “world view” for wolves, not for sheep.
Nazi Germany was the only of the powers in World War II that banned and persecuted Christian Israelites.
Just because the Allied victory in WWII has led to the present Babylonian system, does not mean that Nazi Germany was right.
Being against National Socialism and Nazi Germany is not being against Germans or Germany.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler explains in details that National Socialism is a “world view” (“Weltanschauung”). He writes that a “world view” covers all aspects of life, whereas ideologies – such as Capitalism and Communism – only covers some aspects of life. Hitler continues and writes that the only other existing “world view”, besides National Socialism, is Christianity.
It is a matter of logic reasoning that if National Socialism is a “world view” that covers all aspects of life, then there is not room for another “world view” which also covers all aspects of life. There is not room for both. One of them has to go.
Therefore by mere logic reasoning out of Mein Kampf, National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.
Several places in Mein Kampf did Hitler speak of his belief in “Providence” and “the Creator”, but it is not clear what he meant by these terms, because he never defined them.
But Martin Bormann (1900-1945), Hitler’s private secretary and head of the NSDAP Parteikanzlei, did explain the National Socialist idea of God in a confidential memo to Gauleiters from 1942: “When we National Socialists speak of a belief in God...[we mean] [t]he force which moves all these bodies in the universe, in accordance with natural law, is what we call the Almighty or God. The assertion that this world-force can worry about the fate of every individual, every bacillus on earth, and that it can be influenced by so-called prayer or other astonishing things, is based either on a suitable dose of naivete or on outright commercial effrontery.”[i]
While Hitler, to my knowledge, did not outright condemn Christianity, he preferred other religions. Hitler once said: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”[ii]
Christianity was not a part of the foundations of National Socialism, although Hitler did pay lip-service to Christianity, and had been raised as a Catholic. Hitler did not hate Christianity, but neither did he care about Christianity. Hitler as a person can best be described as a theist with a vague religious faith.
While Hitler himself did not outright condemn Christianity, many of the top National Socialists closest to Hitler were outright anti-Christs and self-professed pagans.
Martin Bormann, Hitler’s private secretary and right hand, stated publicly in 1941: “National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.”[iii] Bormann was chief of the NSDAP Parteikanzlei when he wrote these words.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), the head of the SS, was a self-professed pagan who began to revive the pagan gods of ancient Germania. At Reinhard Heydrich’s funeral on 9 June, 1942, Himmler said:
“We will have to deal with Christianity in a tougher way than hitherto. We must settle accounts with this Christianity, this greatest of plagues that could have happened to us in our history, which has weakened us in every conflict. If our generation does not do it then it would I think drag on for a long time. We must overcome it within ourselves.”[iv]
Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) was the leading National Socialist ideologist who wrote The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930), which probably is the second-most important National Socialist book after Mein Kampf. Rosenberg openly rejected Christianity, and wrote in his book:
“But today a new faith is awakening: the myth of the blood...Then in place of the Old Testament stories of cattle breeders and the exploitation of prostitutes, we shall have the Nordic sagas and fairy tales, at first simply recounted, later assuming the form of symbols.”[v]
Rosenberg and other members of the National Socialist government had drawn up detailed plans for a “National Reich Church”, which should be raised after the war. Some of the thirty points of the “National Reich Church” were:
“The National Reich Church of Germany categorically claims the exclusive right and the exclusive power to control all churches within the borders of the Reich: it declares these to be national churches of the German Reich.”
“The National Church is determined to exterminate irrevocably ... the strange and foreign Christian faiths imported into Germany in the ill-omened year 800 ...”
“The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany ...”
“On the altars there must be nothing but Mein Kampf (to the German nation and therefore to God the most sacred book) and to the left of the altar a sword.”
“On the day of its foundation, the Christian Cross must be removed from all churches, cathedrals and chapels...and it must be superseded by the only unconquerable symbol, the swastika.”[vi]
There were National Socialists who advanced the so-called “Positive Christianity”, which was a Christianity that was in submission to National Socialism and, among other things, completely rejected the Old Testament. But the National Socialist mainstream in the Third Reich was not Christian, but full of pagan and anti-Christian viewpoints. The core of National Socialism did not incorporate Christianity, only the fringes did.
The Lord Jesus said: “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven...” (Matthew 5:43-45)
This is the ideal for Christian Israelites. I can hardly think of something more in opposition to Christianity than National Socialism. There is no need for me to go into details about Nazi Germany’s war crimes – the mainstream medias are full of them – but denying them is just as absurd as denying that 66 million, mainly Christian Russians, were killed in the Soviet Union (which the mainstream medias certainly not are full of). (The Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) has written in details about this in The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1978) and Two Hundred Years Together: On Russian-Jewish Relations Since 1772 (2003). The latter has of this date not been published in the West.)
In the Bible, Israel is called sheep. The Lord Jesus said: “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matthew 15:24). Sheep are peaceful and non-violent – except for rams, of course. Christianity can be called a religion for sheep.
But the spirit of National Socialism is entirely different. It is not one of mercy and caring for the weak, but one of ruthlessness and eliminating the weak. National Socialism can be called a “world view” for wolves.
During World War II, there were many Christian Israelites in Britain, America, and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world. The most famous of them was the British king George VI, who was ruler from 1936 to 1952. George VI wrote: “I am sure the British Israelite business is true. I have read a lot about it lately and everything no matter how large or small points to our being the chosen race.” He wrote these words in 1922 when he was called Albert, Duke of York. His full name was Albert Frederick Arthur George.
George VI was King of Great Britain and of the British colonial empire that covered almost one quarter of the earth’s surface. He was also Emperor of India until 1947. The British Empire of George VI was an Empire where Whites, by and large, were the masters and the coloured people in the colonies were the subjects. The British Empire was very much a White minority rule, because by and large Whites did have the right to vote, but the coloured majority did not.
As far as I know, there were not any Christian Israelites in the Third Reich. The original British-Israelites, such as John Wilson, were pro-German and saw the Germans as Israelites. But since the turn of the century, the British-Israel and Anglo-Israel mainstream, which were the leading movements which taught the Israel Identity truth, had become pro-Jewish and evolved an anti-German attitude. The Germans of the Nazi era and pre-Nazi era were indeed descendants of Israel, but due to the violently anti-German attitude of the British-Israel and Anglo-Israel mainstream of those days, it is no wonder that there were not any known German Christian Israelites during WWII.
But there were Christian Israelites in Nazi occupied Europe. In the Netherlands existed the Bond Nederlands Israël and the Nederlandsche Israël-Kring, two groups which were founded and lead by C.F.P.D. van der Vecht (1885-1960). After Nazi Germany on 10 May, 1940 had invaded and occupied the Netherlands, the Nazis banned both of these two Israel Identity groups. The Nazis also banned and confiscated van der Vecht’s own books, and the books by the pyramidologist David Davidson he had had translated, and the manuscript for his main work Israël: Daniël’s Laatste Wereldrijk. The latter was only published in 1946, after King George VI’s British armies had liberated the Netherlands from the occupying Nazis.
The Norwegian Christian Israelite speaker and writer Albert Hiorth, his father, and son Frederik. Albert Hiorth was interrogated by the Gestapo in 1941. His son was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, and died in a Nazi concentration camp. (From Harald Stene Dehlin: Boken om Albert Hiorth (1949), p. 65)
The Nazis also occupied Norway, where the engineer, inventor, and speaker Albert Hiorth (1876-1949) was a prolific speaker and writer about the Israelite origin of the Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon peoples. Hiorth also believed that the Jews were a mixed people who especially had mixed with Edomites.
One of Albert Hiorth’s meanest opposers in Norway was a Nazi, Pastor Egede Nissen, who on 13 April 1939 wrote a vicious personal attack against Hiorth in the newspaper Vestopland.
In August 1941, Albert Hiorth was interrogated by the Gestapo because he had a Jewess five generations back in his genealogical tree and because he possessed a radio. But Hiorth began to open the Scriptures to Oberstürmführer Wagner, who happened to have studied theology, and was later released. His son Frederik, however, was arrested by the Gestapo in the Autumn of 1943. When Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945, the Hiorth family were informed that Frederik had died in a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. This was a severe blow to Albert Hiorth, who himself died in 1949. Albert Hiorth was so influential among Norwegians that the Norwegian General Secretary of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, in June 1948 suggested that Albert Hiorth’s plans about a grandiose waterwork which could irrigate all of Palestine were realized.[vii]
It is ironical that today it is hypocrites from the Christian mainstream denominations that accuse Christian Israelites of being akin to Nazism, despite the fact that the Nazis did not ban the same Christian mainstream denomations but did ban and persecute the Christian Israelites!
If Christian Israelites should have sympathy for one of the powers of WWII, it certainly should not be the only ones who banned and persecuted Christian Israelites!
Just because the victory of the Western Allies has led to the present Babylonian system, which is on the wrong side of good and evil, does not make Nazi Germany right.
Being against Nazi Germany does not mean being against Germany or the German people. Most Germans today know this. Being against Nazi Germany is being against National Socialism, not being against Germany or Germans.
The German people have thoroughly repented and paid restitution for what their forefathers did (and did not) do during WWII. They have even repented and paid restitution far beyond what was necessary. Repentance and restitution cleanses and takes away sin. Therefore the Germans of today have nothing to be ashamed of concerning their country’s National Socialist past.
Nazi Germany was on the wrong side of good and evil because Germany was Nazi, not because it was Germany!
In Nazi Germany, there were many German Nationalists who were against Nazi Germany. One of them was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1911-1944), the “Desert Fox” of the German Afrikakorps. Rommel was involved in the failed 20 July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler, and was given the choice between being tried at a kangaroo “People’s Court” or take his own life. So Rommel killed himself.
Remember that the officers involved in this failed assassination attempt on Hitler were Conservative German Nationalists, not “colour-blind” internationalists.
It is written: “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” (Revelation 13:10)
After WWII, the Germans basically reaped what they had sown in WWII. The Germans had annexed Poland and treated the Poles absolutely terrible. National Socialist propaganda openly called Slavs for “subhumans”. Instead, after WWII, Poland ended up annexing a large part of Germany. Thus the Germans reaped themselves what they had sown against the Poles. They had digged a grave for the Poles, and fell into it themselves.
Germany invaded Soviet Russia in 1941 and intented to make the Slavonic peoples slaves to the Germans. In Mein Kampf Hitler wrote horrible things against the Slavs, and went into details of how East Europe should become a German colony (“Lebensraum”), where the Germans should be masters and the Slavonic peoples their slaves.
When the German armies entered Russia and the Ukraine, they were welcomed as liberators by the Slavs, but they still treated the Slavs as “subhumans”. The Germans treated the Slavs worse than the Soviets did. After WWII, the Germans themselves ended up in the rôle they had intended for the Russians and the Slavs. The Germans digged a grave for the Russians, and fell into it themselves.
And concerning the Jews, the story is pretty much the same.
It is perfectly true that in WWII, the Germans were fleshly Israelites, and the Slavonic peoples were not Israelites, and the Jews contained Esau-Edom. But the Germans were making war in unrighteousness. In contrast to Nazi Germany's war of unrighteousness, it is written in Revelation how Christ at His Second Coming will make war in righteousness: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.” (Revelation 19:11)
In WWII, Nazi Germany were not the good guys. They committed many crimes, which the Germans since then have repented of and paid restitution for, and far beyond what was necessary. That just goes to show that the Germans are good people with a conscience. If the Germans had not repented, they would not have been a good people. But they have repented.
When a nation has done something wrong, that nation should not deny that they have done anything wrong. The nation should repent, and the Germans have repented.
The Germans during WWII can be compared to all the White Western nations of Israelite descent today. They – that is, the entire Western mainstream – are just as much on the wrong side of good and evil as the Germans were during the Third Reich. Today, all the nations of Israelite descent need to repent just as much as the Germans should have done in the heyday of the Nazi era. The Western nations of Israelite descent are not “good guys” just because they are of Israelite descent. As John the Baptist said: “Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.” (Luke 3:8)
From 1990 to 1994, from I was 14 to 18 years old, I was a member of Denmark’s National Socialist Movement (DNSB). Two years in a row, 1992 and 1993, I was awarded the prize “Activist of the Year”. I participated in Rudolf Hess-demonstrations in Germany, and other demonstrations in Denmark and Sweden, and translated articles and booklets into Danish for the Danish National Socialists.
As most modern National Socialists - who do not have any of Hitler’s more neutral views on Christianity, but continue in the outright anti-Christian and pagan line of Himmler, Rosenberg, and Bormann - I also mocked Christianity. After I had translated two anti-Christian texts, God humbled me, and instead I came to faith in God, Jesus, and the Bible. I also came to faith in that the Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon peoples, and not the Jews, are the descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel.
In the Danish Nazi circles I spoke openly about my new-found faith in God, Jesus, and the Bible. This caused much upstirring in the Danish Nazi circles, and finally, the leader of DNSB asked me if I intended to keep on spreading this new faith of mine. I answered: “Yes”, and then he said that in that case I would have to leave DNSB. So I left DNSB. That was in 1994.
This is my testimony: that Christian Israelites must reject National Socialism.
I would not have been able to write this article in 1994 when I had just become a Christian Israelite and had just been thrown out of the Nazi party. But as Siegfried Matlock, the editor of Der Nord-Schleswiger, said, concerning the German people: “You do not get de-nazified from one day to the other.”
November 2008
Harald Stene Dehlin: Boken om Albert Hiorth – En norsk Aladdin (Lutherstiftelsen: Norway, 1949)
John Ray: Nazism and Christianity (March 2008), found on: http://jonjayray.tripod.com/nazchris.html
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English83.pdf
[i] Martin Bormann, Reich Leader, 1942, ‘National Socialist and Christian Concepts are Incompatible’, From Kirchliches Jahrbuch fur die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, 1933-1944, pp. 470-472, quoted pp. 245-247, George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: A Documentary History.
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[ii] Adolf Hitler, quoted by Albert Speer, p. 96, Inside the Third Reich.
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[iii] Martin Bormann, Reich Leader, 1942, ‘National Socialist and Christian Concepts are Incompatible’, From Kirchliches Jahrbuch fur die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, 1933-1944, pp. 470-472, quoted pp. 245-247, George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: A Documentary History.
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[iv] Source of English translation: Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham, eds., Nazism, 1919-1945, Vol. 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-1939. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000, p. 304. Source of original German text: Rede vor den Oberabschnittsführern und Hauptamtschefs im Haus der Flieger in Berlin am 9. 6. 1942 (Gedenkrede für Reinhard Heydrich), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, T-175, Roll 90, Frames 2664-2685; reprinted in Heinrich Himmler, Heinrich Himmler: Geheimreden 1933 bis 1945 und andere Ansprachen. Bradley F. Smith and Agnes F. Peterson, eds. Frankfurt am Main: Propyläen, 1974, pp. 159-61.
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[v] Alfred Rosenberg, Myth of the Twentieth Century, 1932, quoted p. 6, The War Against God, edited by Carl Carmer.
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[vi] The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer, p. 240 in some editions, p. 332 in others. Chapter headed “Triumph and Consolidation”, subsection “The Persecution of the Christian Churches”.
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[vii] Boken om Albert Hiorth, p. 75-76, 126, 146-149.
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