The Cross and the Swastika

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Leo Schlageter memorial

The Fiery Cross of Christ

The Fiery Cross of Christ at the Leo Schlageter memorial is very much like a Ku Klux Klan ceremonial Cross Lighting and was probably the inspiration for this ceremony. No matter what you may think and no matter what the politically correct may rant and rave, this does not depict a burning cross and neither does a Ku Klux Klan Cross Lighting ceremony. Rather it glorifies the Christian cross in memory of the Nazi Leo Schlageter, a martyr for the German cause, in the same way that a Knights of the KKK Cross Lighting glorifies our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and those Christian martyrs that followed in the Christian Faith.

Leo Schlageter was born in 1894 and raised a Catholic, he prepared for a religious occupation. Schlageter joined the German free corps and fought in World War I and received the Iron Cross. He became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party) in 1922. During the French Ruhr occupation, Schlageter lead a combat patrol against the French. He got caught and they arrested and executed him in Duesseldorf on 25 May 1923. In World War II, the Luftwaffe honored him by naming an air wing after him. The Nazi navy also named a ship after him. Hitler mentions Schlageter in Mein Kampf. (Also see the Schlageter pin badges on the first page of this series on Nazi Artifacts.)

Christian Cross with Nazi Flag

From a Heinrich Hoffmann photo book titled: HITLER BAUT GROßDEUTSCHLAND (Hitler Constructs Greater Germany) which follows Hitler in Austria in the spring of 1938.

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Adolf Hitler's Church

Saint Michael's Catholic Church where Adolf Hitler attended regularly as a boy in Leonding, Austria.

The funeral for Hitler's mother took place in this church on Christmas Eve in 1907.

Alois, and Klara Hitler, both of Adolf Hitler's parents are buried at this distinctively Christian gravesite.

Hitler's mother, Klara was a pious Roman Catholic. Adolf Hitler was devoted to his mother and loved her deeply. She died of breast cancer at the age of 47 on December 21, 1907.

Hitler reverently visited the grave of his parents on March 12, 1938, the day he followed his troops as they moved into his homeland of  Austria.

These photos show the grave location in relation to the church
The photo at left shows Hilter in 1938.
Source: Adolf Hitler Visits Austria

Hitler's "Cross of Christ" at Eagle's Nest
Refurbished Cross for the tour site

Eagle's Nest - World War II Era Photo

Note the Cross above is to the Lower Left of Hitler's House

The Eagle's Nest served as Hitler's private mountain retreat during World War II. A group of World War I veterans coined the term "Eagle's Nest." Otherwise the name has always referred only to Hitler's tea house (teehaus).

 

The Christian Cross stands near the Kehlsteinhaus. For those who refuse to accept the facts about Hitler's Christianity, this Old Rugged Cross becomes a serious problem and begs an answer to the question: Why would an anti-Christian or non-Christian, or a Pagan allow such a symbol on his private property in a prominent location beside his home? The answer, of course, is the simple fact that Hitler was not against Christianity but rather for it. Although he criticized political Roman Catholicism, he was himself a Roman Catholic with strong Protestant inclinations and he wanted to unite all the German Churches under one Reich Christian Church. Hitler stood for what the Nazi Party called 'positive' Christianity, a term that appeared in the Nazi Party Platform which was kind of like the NSDAP version of a Constitution. Hitler upheld and defended both the Catholic and the Protestant Churches throughout Germany and the rest of Europe.

Nazi Protestant Church

German Christians (Bewegung Deutscher Christen)

German Christians Parade in Berlin, Germany - 1933

In 1932 the Protestant church came under the influence of the Nazi movement and organisation called "German Christians" (Bewegung Deutscher Christen, also called "Stormtroopers of Jesus") which was lead by the founder, Reverend Joachim Hossenfelder. This Christian movement represented Hitler's "Positive Christianity" views which were lawfully encoded into the Nazi Party Platform or NSDAP "constitution." Adolf Hitler tried to force regional Protestant churches to merge into the Protestant Reich Church. Protestant churches throughout Germany participated in the movement but Hitler's total union of the churches failed because of in-church bickering and the steadfastness of the Christian clergy in maintaining Christian liberty in the Church. Only one visibly apparent church remains in Germany that shows distinctive markings of Nazism and Positive Christianity, a strong reminder of how Christianity and Nazism mixed together during the Nazi regime of the World War II era.

Martin Luther Memorial Church in Berlin

Consecrated in 1935, the Martin Luther Memorial Church in Berlin, Germany still stands in Berlin. Originally the Church bells and altar contained the Nazi Swastika, but later were removed because of post-war law that outlaws swastikas in Germany. Nevertheless, the church still retains many of the Nazi symbols and icons, including a muscular Aryan Jesus Christ, Iron Cross, statues of Nazi Stormtroopers, and a bust of Adolf Hitler.  During the 1930s, Nazi party members made up two thirds of the church attendance, and this church is where they also baptized their children into the Christian Faith.

Note, Adolf Hitler greatly admired the Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther, he mentioned Martin Luther in his book Mein Kampf, and considered him one of the greatest reformers.

Religious services in the church took place until 2005 when loose tiles began to fall off making the church unsafe. Today, priests and parishioners work to raise money to save the church.

The photos below show a few of the Nazi  symbols and icons.

In the entrance hall of the church hangs a chandelier in the shape of an Iron Cross, complete with Oak Leaves.  This is a symbol of the Teutonic Knights and of courage in batttle.

Wooden frieze carved into the side of the pulpit depicting Jesus Christ standing next to a Nazi soldier and Aryan women and children.

Closeup of Jesus with a Nazi soldier.

Baptismal font with carving of Hitler holding an Nazi Stormtrooper cap.

Stone carving on arch surrounding chancel of Martin Luther Memorial Church.

Close-up showing Christ's Crown of thorns, and a helmeted soldier.

Christians at War with Communism!

Nazi Army Chaplain leading Christian Soldiers in Outdoor Mass

World War II History

World War II History - Page 2

World War II History - Page 3

"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

Jews, ZOG, and ZOGlings

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited."
--- Adolf Hitler, in his speech in Munich on 12 April 1922 (M.N.O. 26)

Note: "brood of vipers" appears in Matthew 3:7 & 12:34. John 2:15 depicts Jesus Christ driving out the money changers (adders) from the temple. The word "adders" also appears in Psalm 140:3

From the 4th. Century A.D. - A Knights Cross & a Swastika together

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