I'm currently reading this; I highly recommend it.
I'm currently reading this; I highly recommend it.
Both Hitler and Himmler had a soft spot for Islam. Hitler several times fantasized that, if the Saracens had not been stopped at the Battle of Tours, Islam would have spread through the European continent—and that would have been a good thing, since “Jewish Christianity” wouldn’t have gone on to poison Europe. Christianity doted on weakness and suffering, while Islam extolled strength, Hitler believed. Himmler in a January 1944 speech called Islam “a practical and attractive religion for soldiers,” with its promise of paradise and beautiful women for brave martyrs after their death. “This is the kind of language a soldier understands,” Himmler gushed.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/nazi-romance-with-islam
Religion was only a vehicle of convenience for him. His preferred religion, because of its capacity for violence, was Islam.
Excellent book. Anything by Paul Johnson is well worth the time.
And here we are.
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He committed “revolutionary suicide” too, just like that Bernie Sanders supporter outside the NYC courthouse.
Another bit of useful reading on how Fascism evolved as a reaction to Bolshevism:
https://ridl.io/ivan-ilyin-a-fashionable-fascist/
This character is much revered by Putin, btw.
Both disciplines demand absolute authoritarian forms of human organization.
That Hitler guy...what a jerk
Yes it’s excellent.
It’s too bad Paull Johnson’s history books weren’t made into text books and taught in schools.
I recently finished “Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich” by Peter Fritzsche. I’m currently reading “The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group by James P. O’Donnell.
hitler was NOT on the left! He was a socialist on the left!!!
stupid lefties
Here is what I often post on GAB to annoy the nazi wannabees. They actually squeal like pigs when they read this!
From RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH...
What the Hitler government envisioned for Germany was clearly set out in a
thirty-point program for the ”National Reich Church” drawn up during the war
by Rosenberg, an outspoken pagan, who among his other offices held that of
”the Fuehrer’s Delegate for the Entire Intellectual and Philosophical Education
and Instruction for the National Socialist Party.” A few of its thirty articles
convey the essentials:
1. 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.
5. The National Church is determined to exterminate irrevoca-
bly . . . the strange and foreign Christian faiths imported into
Germany in the ill-omened year 800.
7. The National Church has no scribes, pastors, chaplains or
priests, but National Reich orators are to speak in them.
13. The National church demands immediate cessation of the pub-
lishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany . . .
14. The National Church declares that to it, and therefore to the
German nation, it has been decided that the Fuehrer’s Mein
Kampf is the greatest of all documents. It . . . not only contains
the greatest but it embodies the purest and truest ethics for the
present and future life of our nation.
18. The National Church will clear away from its altars all cruci-
fixes, Bibles and pictures of saints.
19. 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.
30. On the day of its foundation, the Christian Cross must be re-
moved from all churches, cathedrals and chapels . . . and it
must be superseded by the only unconquerable symbol, the
swastika.
While it's a popular talking point among conservatives that Fascism and National Socialism were "leftst," the truth is that many on the right supported these movements because they were seen as a bulwark against Bolshevism. Especially during and after the Spanish Civil War, when Stalin supported the Republicans and Hitler and Mussolini supported the Nationalists.
On my “to read” list.
Ain't it odd that no pope ever bothered to excommunicate Herr Hitler?
I can’t remember where now, but in one exchange Joseph Goebbels says, “Remember that in National Socialism, the National is an adjective”.
ping for later
Coincidentally, so do muslims, unless they just want to nuke the Vatican. Either or, preferably both. Oddly. the muslims had the idea of killing the pope before Herr H came along.
