[Heartlander]

FYI:
This document was prepared by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Research and Analysis Branch. Courtesy of Cornell Law Library, which holds the original document. (note: the link provides access to downloadable files that are pdf images of the original OSS documents.)
The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches

[Ken H]

BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933

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"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life...."

--http://www.hitler.org/speeches/02-01-33.html

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The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, is creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life.

The advantages of a personal and political nature that might arise from compromising with atheistic organizations would not outweigh the consequences which would become apparent in the destruction of general moral basic values. The national Government regards the two Christian confessions as the weightiest factors for the maintenance of our nationality.

-A. Hitler, Speech to the Reichstag, March 23, 1933

http://www.hitler.org/speeches/03-23-33.html