Maybe because of the death of Pope Benedict XVI or something else going on, I noticed a blip online of linking Hitler and Christianity as well as the Nazi movement to Christianity.

This is, of course, absurd.

Those espousing this are simply linking two things they don’t like. I mean, is it plausible in any way shape or form that Hitler worshipped Jesus who was Jewish?

But the animosity that the Nazi Party held for Christianity is obvious.

The Daily Mail once reported that:

… the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration.

… ‘Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis – after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,’ Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. ‘The most important celebration in the year didn’t fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.’

The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals.

The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the Norse god Odin.

The symbol that posed a particular problem for the Nazis was the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees.

… The is a legacy of the Nazi Christmas. The wartime version of the traditional Christmas carol ‘Unto us a time has come’ is still sung. ‘The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song about walking through the snow,’ Breuer said.

The International Herald Tribune reported in 1937:

1937 — ‘Neo-Pagans’ Target Carols
BERLIN — De-Christianization of famous German Christmas hymns, such as “Silent Night, Holy Night,” is the outstanding contribution to the current holiday season of the rapidly spreading German faith movement or “religion” of National Socialism. In the new versions of the old songs reference to Nazi tenets of race, blood and soil replace familiar words concerning Christ, Child and the like. The accepted English translation of Mohr’s “Silent Night,” stanza three lines two and three is: “The Son of God loves pure light, radiant beams from thy Holy faith.” Equivalent lines in the Nazified version are “German blood, O how laugh the lips of thy children, blessed with joy.”

Does this sound like the Nazis were embracing Christianity?

The No Pasaran! website writes: “An eye-opening 2009 exhibit at Cologne’s National Socialism Documentation Centre featured early Nazi propaganda employed to make over the holidays: swastika-shaped cookie-cutters; sunburst tree-toppers, to replace the traditional ornament Nazis feared looked too much like the Star of David; and rewritten lyrics to carols that excised all references to Christ.“

Nazism was fascism linked to the scientific movement of eugenics which was all the rage at the time among leftists in Europe and America.

Some will stop at nothing to link it to Christianity. Don’t believe them.