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The Nazis Would Have Killed Jesus
The Nazis would have killed their own God
They would have filled his holy lungs with death
Made soap with his fat
Lamp shades with his skin
Filled pillows with his hair
What hypocrisy
To hate your own God
To kill those like him
To kill at all
But he was crucified two thousand years before
They replaced him with a mustached wannabe savior
With the closest thing to Satan that any human could be
JESUS WAS A JEW!
JESUS WAS A JEW!
JESUS WAS A JEW!
They would have gassed him too
Beautiful poem, and you are correct in the historical facts, that the Third Reich promoted both a pagan Aryan type of religion, very vague, and both Catholic and Protestant spiritualities (the Protestants being in the Reich church that you mentioned). I doubt seriously that the ordinary people who voted Hitler into power had any intention of giving up their historic Christian faith; the pagan Aryan faith was probably for the fanatics, or the Alten Kampfers who had been Hitler's early supporters.
Starward
The Nazis would have killed their own God
Nazis were atheists.
Actually this point is debatable. Hitler professed himself a Catholic. The Catholic Church also signed an agreement with Hitler to not get involved in politics if they were left alone (click here http://www.jesusradicals.com/main/essays/nazis.html to see several pictures of Hitler smiling and shaking hands with Pius VII and other Catholics). Although the Nazis promoted the pagan German Faith movement as an alternative to Christianity, Hitler united all Protestant churches in Germany into the Reich Church. Many anti-Semetic Christians supported the Nazis because they considered Jews to be "Christ killers." Many soldiers and oridnary Germans who were sucked into Nazi ideology never renounced their Christian beliefs including many who killed Jews; therefore, there were Christian Nazis.