In all fairness this
article does not suggests that all Christians are Nazis but we can't just claim
Christian culture and the acts of evil people in the name of Christianity
should be ignored. Both the Catholic Church and Protestant Churches were very anti-Semitic
but the idea of racial anti-Semitism was an invention of the 19th century drawn
from humanism. There is no such thing as a "Jewish race" in any
biological sense of the word.
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People
often make the claim that Adolph Hitler adhered to Atheism, Humanism or that
his religion involved ancient Nordic pagan mythology. None of these fanciful
and wrong ideas hold. Although one of Hitler's henchmen, Alfred
Rosenberg, did undertake a campaign of Nordic mythological propaganda,
Hitler and most of his henchmen did not believe in it (see the last part of
this text). Many American books, television documentaries, and Sunday sermons
that preach of Hitler's "evil" have eliminated Hitler's god for
their Christian audiences, but one only has to read from his own writings to
appreciate that his God equals the same God of the Bible.
Hitler held many hysterical beliefs, which not only include God and Providence
but also Fate, Social Darwinism, and politics. He spoke, unashamedly, about
God, fanaticism, idealism, dogma, and the power of propaganda. Hitler held strong faith in all his convictions. He justified
his fight for the German people and against Jews by using Godly and Biblical
reasoning. Indeed, one of his most revealing statements makes this
quite clear:
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of
the Almighty Creator: *by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting
for the work of the Lord.*"
Although Hitler did not practice religion in a churchly sense, he certainly
believed in the Bible's God. He got raised as a Catholic and went to a
Catholic school. Much of his philosophy came right out of the Bible,
and more influentially, from the Christian Social movement.
The German Christian Social movement remarkably
resembles the Christian Right movement in America today.
Hitler's anti-Semitism grew from his Christian education. Christian Germany in
his time took for granted the belief that Jews held an inferior status to
German Christians. Jewish hatred did not spring from Hitler, it came from
the preaching of Catholic priests, and Protestant ministers throughout Germany
for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself, held
a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish religion. In his book, "On the
Jews and their Lies," Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in
Protestant Germany up until World War II. Hitler expressed a great
admiration for Martin Luther.
Hitler did not have to prove his belief in God, as so many American Christians
do now. He did not have to justify his Godly belief against an Atheist
movement. He took his beliefs for granted just as most Germans did. He
did not have to preach God to his audience. His thrust aimed at politics, not
religion. Although, through his politics he had wanted to create a German Reich
Church to instill dogmatic beliefs in the German populace.
Future generation should always remember that Adolph
Hitler could not have come into power without the support of Christian
believing people.
The following quotes provides some of Hitler's expressions of his belief in
religion, faith, fanaticism, Providence, and even a few of his paraphrasing of
the Bible. It by no means represents the totality of Hitler's concerns. To
realize the full context of these quotes, I implore the reader to read Mein
Kampf.
The end of this text provides a few quotes from Hitler's henchmen. This text
represents but only a sampling of the full extent of the influence of
Christianity upon the Third Reich. These quotes provide a quick source of
Hitler's and the Nazi leaders belief in God.
Lastly, an addendum includes quotes from Protestant leader, Martin Luther.
Although Hitler carried out atrocities against the Jews, Martin Luther and
generations of following believers set the stage for World War II and the
Holocaust.
The purpose of this paper intends to reveal the dangers of belief-systems,
and in no way attempts to give endorsement against the Jewish people.
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Volume 1, Chapter 1, In the House of My Parents
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Their sword will become our plow, and from the tears of war the daily bread
of future generations will grow.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Note: "Their sword will become our plow" appears to paraphrase Micah
4:3 about beating swords into ploughshares, but his tears of war more resembles
Joel 3:9-10 "Beat your plowshares into swords."
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of
the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to
me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most
desirable ideal. –
Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
I thank Heaven that a portion of the memories of those days still remains with
me. Woods and meadows were the battlefields on which the 'conflicts' which
exist everywhere in life were decided.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the
eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a
German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on
many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their
common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their
holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to
be forced to fight for one's nationality.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 2, Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna
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...God have mercy!
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Fate must bring retribution, unless men conciliate Fate while there is still
time. How thankful I am today to the Providence which sent me to that school!
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality
after all, even though this might require long years.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer
drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and
with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word
'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions....
For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and
therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of
religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone,
particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of
the cultural tradition of a great nation.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time
I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these
occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in
those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social
Party.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(Note: Karl Lueger (1844-1910) belonged as a member of the anti-Semitic
Christian Social Party, he became mayor of Vienna and kept his post until his
death.) The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common
sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I
had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair
judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this
man as the greatest German mayor of all times.
-Adolf Hitler speaking about Dr. Karl Lueger (Mein Kampf)
How many of my basic principles were upset by this
change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views
with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this
was my greatest transformation of all.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the
Almighty Creator: *by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for
the work of the Lord.*
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 3 General Political Considerations Based on My Vienna Period
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A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it
would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which
its germs can spread.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and
only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the
final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind
and soul.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
God forbid!
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than
a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
-Adolf Hitler with his twist on Mark 10:25 (Mein Kampf)
Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or
moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but
that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents
and weaklings are frightened of.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
For by employing religious force in the service of
its political considerations, the crown aroused a spirit which at that outset
it had not considered possible.
-Adolf Hitler on the state of Rome (Mein Kampf)
For when a people is not willing or able to fight
for its existence-- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's
end.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social
Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of
study.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Even less could I understand how the Christian
Social Party at this same period could achieve such immense power.
At that time it had just reached the apogee of its glory.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
But the power which has always started the greatest religious and political
avalanches in history rolling has from time to immemorial been the magic of
power of the spoken word, and that alone. Particularly the broad masses of
the people can be moved only by the power of speech.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can
be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual
nature of the people.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the
fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and
that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our
nationality.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism,
in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails,
however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place
in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological
world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans
as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as
German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation
in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to
rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude
toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their
duty and obligation overwhelmingly.Whether
Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the
first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich,
for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or
destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a
state, let alone a party.
-Adolf Hitler speaking like Jesus in Matthew 6:24 (Mein Kampf)
Heaven will smile on us again.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these
are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just
as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his
people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics,
but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!*
0 -Adolf Hitler [the original comes in italics] (Mein Kampf)
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and
well-planned.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of
large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological
instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The anti-Semitism of the new movement [Christian
Social movement] was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the
great minds of our people.
-Adolf Hitler speaking about the leader of the
Christian Social movement (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 4, Munich
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But the people on top made a cult of the 'ally,' as if it were the Golden
Calf.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(The Golden calf occurs in Exodus 32:1-4)
Mankind has grown great in eternal struggle, and only in eternal peace does it
perish.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can
certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much
land and soil in this world as another.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 5, The World War
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Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I
fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting
me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of
my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed
to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the
sincerity of this conviction.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational
expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and
not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first
prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise
from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence
which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and
uncertain.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 6, War Propaganda
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I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has
remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-Social movement, especially in Lueger's
time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of
its success.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Certainly we don't have to discuss these matters with the Jews, the most modern
inventors of this cultural perfume. Their whole existence is an embodied
protest against the aesthetics of the Lord's image.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 7, The Revolution
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More than once I was tormented by the thought that if
Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or
scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken
a different turn.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless
marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His
ungrateful children.
-Adolf Hitler reflecting on World War I (Mein Kampf)
... we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change
and not to abandon our people in the times to come.
-Hitler recalling a priest's speech after the defeat of WWI (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 8, The Beginning of My Political Activity
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As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and
'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of
seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.
-Adolf Hitler reflecting on World War I (Mein Kampf)
The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions
of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the
one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea...
-Adolf Hitler reflecting on World War I (Mein Kampf)
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more
impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend
on human beings...
If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the
greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is
only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance,
however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human
development of culture, ethics, and morality.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great
reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well
as Richard Wagner.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproduction of our
race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the purity of our
blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people
may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the
universe.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 10, Causes of the Collapse
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Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in
the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown
on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character
like William I.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Hastily and indifferently, people tried to pass by the unpleasant truths, as
though by such an attitude events could be undone. No, the fact that our big
city population is growing more and more prostituted in its love life cannot
just be denied out of existence; it simply is so.
...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are
avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of
the blood and the race.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(Avenged to the tenth generation appears in Deuteronomy 23:2-3)
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and
the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against
prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them
not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even
the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage
for the coming generation. In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain
an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to
humanity, an institution which is ####ed ill-suited to a being who with his
usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the
soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual
ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville
and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right
kind of food, particularly for the youth... Theater, art, literature, cinema,
press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of
our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural
idea.
-Adolf Hitler sounding like the Moral Majority
(Mein Kampf)
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its
end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think
you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The works of Mortiz von Schwind, or of a Bo:cklin, were also an inner
experience, but of artists graced by God and not of clowns.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
How widespread the general disunity was growing is shown by an examination of
religious conditions before the War. Here, too, a unified and effective
philosophical conviction had long since been lost in large sections of the
nation. In this the members officially breaking away from the churches play
a less important role than those who are completely indifferent.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win
new followers for their doctrine-- an activity which can boast but very modest
success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan faith in particular-- right
here in Europe they lose millions and millions of inward adherents who either
are alien to all religious life or simply so their own ways. The consequences,
particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic
foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the
practical existence of a religious faith is not conceivable.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the
masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various
substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that
they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the
broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the
foundation of all efficacy.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle
against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as the latter would end
in a total anarchy of the state, the former would end in a worthless religious
nihilism.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by
the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot
sharply enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an
implement to perform political or rather business services for them.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 11, Nation and Race
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The result of all racial crossing is therefore in brief always the following:
(a) Lowering of the level of the higher race;
(b) Physical and intellectual regression and hence the beginning of a slowly
but surely progressing sickness.
To bring about such a development is, then, nothing else but to sin against
the will of the eternal creator. And as a sin this act is rewarded.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Here, of course, we encounter the objection of the modern pacifist, as truly
Jewish in its effrontery as it is stupid! 'Man's role is to overcome Nature!'
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(Man's dominion over earth appears in Genesis 1:26)
...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(See Genesis Chapter 3)
... that is why the prophet seldom has any honor in his own country.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
("For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own
country." John 4:44)
The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never
a religion.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious
institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and
hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in
the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after
death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the
hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious
education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is
inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years
previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. Of course, the latter
made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he
even took the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all
humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his
business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our
present-day party Christians debase themselves to begging for Jewish votes at
elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties--
and this against their own nation..
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
At times of the bitterest distress, fury against him finally breaks out, and
the plundered and ruined masses begin to defend themselves against the
scourge of God.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(See Isaiah 63)
This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called
'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved
peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present
time.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of
the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if
furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this,
and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for
the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
First, therefore, he goes about making up to the people for his previous sins
against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of mankind. Since his
new benevolence has a practical foundation, that the left hand should not know
what the right hand giveth; no, whether he likes it or not, he must reconcile
himself to letting as many people as possible know how deeply he feels the
sufferings of the masses and all the sacrifices that he himself is making to
combat them.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(The left/right hand paraphrase appears to come from Matthew 6:3)
But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about
the necessary progress of mankind.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries
a Jewess.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living
shape of the Jew.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for
the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from
her people.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin
against the will of eternal Providence...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Providence did not bestow her reward on the victorious sword, but followed the
law of eternal retribution.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 1, Chapter 12 The First Period of Development of the Nationalist Social
German Worker's Party
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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than
respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest
upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific
knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and
sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the
intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement,
and push it past other formations of a similar sort.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying
an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with
which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will
against all others.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in
attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions
in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and
fighting for its own doctrine.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the
completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet
and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their
activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but
inborn by God's grace.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to
strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise
it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The characteristic thing about these people is that they rave about old
Germanic heroism, about dim prehistory, stone axes, spear and shield, but in
reality are the greatest cowards that can be imagined. For the same people who
brandish scholarly imitations of old German tin swords, and wear a dressed
bearskin with bull's horns over their heads, preach for the present nothing but
struggle with spiritual weapons, and run away as fast as they can from every
Communist blackjack.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(The above statement refutes the common impression that Hitler admired
ancient Nordic customs.)
A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the
possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by
God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against
the evil and for its cure.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 1, Philosophy and Party
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Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the
unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the
fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith
contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take
away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic
principles-- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles-- by abolishing
this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the
result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic
ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the
eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all
these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are
submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a
fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge
assumes the binding force of apodictic faith. This, above all, is the fighting
factor which makes a breach and opens the way for the recognition of basic
religious views.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits
sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the
expulsion from paradise.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 2, The State
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We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a
nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by
the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest
freedom.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
the task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this
earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the
majority of will and determination.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a
continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an
institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not
monstrosities halfway between man and ape.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world
if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions
which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness,
teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed
pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him
father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only
bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by
nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not
be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put
an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to
give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been
thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion,
had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.*
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin
against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on drilling a born
half-ape until people think they have made a lawyer out of him, while millions
of members of the highest culture-race must remain in entirely unworthy
positions; that it is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His
most gifted beings by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to
degenerate in the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs
are trained for intellectual professions.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time
will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 1, Philosophy and Party
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Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the
unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the
fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes
in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from
present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles-- or,
practically speaking, ethical-moral principles-- by abolishing this religious
education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a
grave shock to the foundations of their existence.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic
ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the
eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all
these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are
submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a
fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge
assumes the binding force of apodictic faith. This, above all, is the fighting
factor which makes a breach and opens the way for the recognition of basic
religious views.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits
sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the
expulsion from paradise.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 2, The State
=============================================================
We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a
nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by
the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest
freedom.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
the task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this
earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the
majority of will and determination.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a
continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an
institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not
monstrosities halfway between man and ape.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world
if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions
which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness,
teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed
pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him
father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only
bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by
nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not
be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put
an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to
give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been
thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion,
had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.*
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin
against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on drilling a born
half-ape until people think they have made a lawyer out of him, while millions
of members of the highest culture-race must remain in entirely unworthy
positions; that it is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His
most gifted beings by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to
degenerate in the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs
are trained for intellectual professions.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time
will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 5, Philosophy and Organization
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Christianity could not content itself with building
up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the
heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith
take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine,
if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward
structure?... Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church.
Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is
none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its
dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the
character of a faith.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 7, The Struggle with the Red Front
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I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and
would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot
be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people
avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
This, it may be that centuries, dissatisfied with the form of their religious
life, yearn for a renewal, and that from this psychic urge dozens and more
men arise who on the basis of their insight and their knowledge believe
themselves as prophets of a new doctrine, or at least as warriors against an
existing one.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
The main fighter for the DSP [*Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei* or German
Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in
Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction
of the mission and the future of his movement.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a
spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic
struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 10, Federalism as a Mask
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The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own
denomination, of making *people stop just talking superficially of God's will,
and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated.* For
God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who
destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], *the most devout Protestant* could sit beside *the most
devout Catholic,* without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious
convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the
destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to
respect and esteem one another.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 13, German Alliance Policy After the War
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... the world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of
principle God does not make cowardly nations free...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its
extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period
and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous
enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is
obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people
will not condemn us.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every
theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission,
until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!'
is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea:
'*Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always
been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!'
-Adolf Hitler's prayer (Mein Kampf)
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Volume 2, Chapter 14, Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy
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...we National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy,
namely *to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are
entitles on this earth.* And this action is the only one which, before God
and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified:
before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal
struggle for our daily bread...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth
to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven-stormer back to
Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It requires all
the force of a young missionary idea to raise our people up again, to free them
from the snares of this international serpent...
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
*The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward
Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub.*
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(devils through Beelzebub comes from Luke 11:15-19)
Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is a man's right to have
earth to till with his own hands, and the most sacred sacrifice the blood that
a man sheds for this earth.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
(till the ground: see Genesis 3:23)
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Volume 2, Chapter 15, The Right of Emergency Defense
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Viewing all this from a higher vantage-point, we can speak of one single piece
of good fortune in all this misery, which is that, though men can be befuddled,
the heavens cannot be bribed.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von
Cuno.
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and
unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.
-Hermann Goering
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I swear before God this holy oath, that I shall give absolute confidence to the
Fuehrer of the German Reich and people.
-Heinrich Himmler (reminding his hearers about the oath taken by all SS men as
well as by the military forces)
(The mass murderer Himmler got brought up as a devout Catholic, like young
Hitler, and he was careful to attend mass regularly.)
You *Einsatztruppen* (task forces) are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty.
But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You
have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I
myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my
soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend
himself against bedbugs and rats-- against vermin.
-Heinrich Himmler (in a speech to the SS guards)
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Julius Streicher, the ninth child of a Roman Catholic primary school
teacher, also became a school teacher in Nuremberg. When Hitler got released
from prison in December 1924, Streicher hailed Hitler's return to politics as a
"gift of God," a judgement the Fuehrer never forgot. Streicher
held an enthusiam about allegations that the Jews murdered non-Jews in order to
obtain blood for the feast of Passover. He charged that Jews hated Christianity
and mankind in general. Streicher went to grotesque lengths in his attacks on
Jews claiming the discovery that "Christ was not a Jew but an Aryan."
If the danger of the reproduction of that curse of God in the Jewish blood is
finally to come to an end, then there is only one way-- the extermination of
that people whose father is the devil...
-Julius Streicher (in an article in the newspaper *Der Stu:mer*)
Only the Jews, he shouted, had remained victorious after the dreadful days
of World War I. These were the people, he charged, of whom Christ said,
"Its father is the devil."
-Julius Streicher
(See John 8:44, for Christ's accusation of father the devil)
Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom
Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
-Julius Streicher
Now it goes to God!
-Julius Streicher (as he mounted the gallows platform to his death)
Purim Fest, 1946.
-Julius Streicher (his last words before his hanging)
(Purim describes a Jewish holiday, celebrated in the spring to commemorate the
hanging of Haman, biblical oppressor of the Jews.)
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No matter what human beings do I shall some day
stand before the judgement seat of the Eternal. I shall answer to Him, and I
know he will judge me innocent.
-Rudolf Hess (in a statement to the Nuremberg Tribunal)
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The pious Catholic parents of Joseph Goebbels raised him and his two
brothers in that faith. He spoke of Hitler as "either Christ or St.
John." "Hitler, I love you!" he wrote in his diary.
A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one.
Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that
scientifically-- it is a fact.
-Joseph Goebbels (in his attempt to win the eternal gratitude of Hitler)
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May God save Germany!
-Joachim Ribbentrop (his last words before his hanging)
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In his Nuremberg cell, Rudolf Hoess told psychologist G.M. Gilbert how he
got brought up in a rigorous Catholic tradition:
My father was really a bigot. He was very strict and fanatical. I learned that
my father took a religious oath at the time of the birth of my younger sister,
dedicating me to God and the priesthood, and after that leading a Joseph
married life [celibacy]. He directed my entire youthful education toward the
goal of making me a priest. I had to pray and go to church endlessly, do penance
over the slightest misdeed-- praying as punishment for any little unkindness to
my sister, or something like that.
When asked if his father ever beat him, Hoess replied that he was only
punished by prayer. "The thing that made me so stubborn and probably made
me later on cut off from people was his way of making me feel that I had
wronged him personally, and that, since I was spiritually a minor, he was
responsible to God for my sins.
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Martin Bormann stood as one of the few top Nazis who rejected Christianity. At
Hitler's round table, Bormann noted that the Fuehrer did not want to pursue a
campaign against the churches. Only in secret did Bormann hold a grudge
against the churches. He carefully avoided the rouse of suspicion of the
Fuehrer. If he could not destroy the churches, he could at least demand that
his subordinates pay little attention to them.
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Alfred Rosenberg stands as the major reason why so many American Christians
think Nazism represented Nordic pagan beliefs instead of Nazi Christianity.
Hitler chose Rosenberg to create a 'religion of the Blood' knowing that any
form of propaganda could prove useful. However, Hitler also attempted to
establish a Reich Christian Church for the future of Germany. Hitler, himself,
did not believe in pagan cults. Rosenberg charged that the true picture of
Jesus had been distorted by fanatics like Matthew, by materialistic rabbis like
Paul, by African jurists like Tertullian, and the mongrel half-breeds like St.
Augustine. The real Christ, wrote Rosenberg, was an Amorite Nordic, aggressive,
courageous, "a man of true Nordic character," a revolutionary who
opposed the Jewish and Roman systems with sword in hand, bringing not peace but
war (see Matthew 10:34-37). Rosenberg later went on to say that he favored a
"positive Christianity," which would purify the Nordic race,
re-establish the old pagan virtues, and substitute the fiery spirit of the hero
for the crucifixion.
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