Can Hitler rule Germany with religion?

He plays politics, including religion.

The following passage is taken from Zhou Ji's Sketch of Hitler.

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Condorcet (condorcet) pointed out in his Introduction to the History of Human Spiritual Progress: "The religious enthusiasm shown by philosophers and great men is actually just a political enthusiasm. All religions that claim to be beneficial to the people can only hope to continue this extreme emotion. " Schopenhauer said: "There is no more effective tool to rule the people than superstition. Without superstition, there is no autonomy. " Julius Wellhausen said: "Religious worship has become a means of punishment."

Obviously, Hitler also understood these truths, so he said, "Rights without religious foundation are doomed to failure." That's why he talks about "hypocritical priests" and "evil superstitions", but his behavior can't conflict with the Roman church. However, he once said impatiently in private: "One day I will uproot Christianity from Germany." A person is either a Christian or a German, and cannot be both. "

At that time, the relationship between Nazis and Protestants eased a little, and Lutherans were in control. As for the reason, it may be that Luther likes to quote St. Paul's famous saying: "The existing rights are God's will."

Heine said: "Religion is the opium of the people." Hitler just played the role of God, because he saw through the religious church and liberated the people from rational thinking. P Klee of blue rider School once said: "No great and pure art is not religious. The more religious art, the more art. " This is exactly what Hitler wanted. Applying art to the religious field to better consolidate politics can really kill three birds with one stone.

16 people who died in the beer hall riots with Hitler in 923 later became Nazi "16 martyrs", and their blood turned into the holy water of the Third Reich. On the night of the Day of the Dead, the dead will gather together. Every anniversary, the Nazis gather in the shrine of the "Glory Temple", and the names of "16 Martyr" are mentioned one by one. At the same time, all the soldiers attending the rally stood by for them.

In the documentary "Victory of Will", the world can see another similar ceremony-"Blood Flag Ceremony". During the riot in the beer hall, Hitler solemnly grabbed the swastika flag stained with the blood of "16 martyr" and shook hands with the newly joined SS soldiers in turn. The Nazis once showed off the newly made cross flag used by the Nazi party, and only when Hitler touched it would it produce strength. Carl Alexander von Miller, a historian who attended the rally that year, said, "There is a cruel will and hysterical romantic fanaticism."

There are many mysterious and even gloomy legends about Nazis in history. Many years later, Discovery filmed a documentary reflecting Nazi mysticism, in which Himmler and his SS became the main characters. At that time, although Hitler despised Himmler for always playing with mysticism, he did not try to control Himmler or eliminate the tendency of SS mysticism. He is not superstitious because he knows how to confuse people. As Lennan explained: "Philosophy can't meet the needs of the public because it lacks sacredness."

At first, the Nazis said that the Jewish "aid society" plotted to control the world, thus providing evidence for inciting anti-Semitism. However, the Nazis later not only established a metaphysical point in Weissbrodt, but even thought that Britain was attacking German submarines with metaphysics in the war, so they wanted to use metaphysics to fight back, so as to study ancient pendulum search, astrology and divination. Even Goebbels once thought that he was closest to the ideal image of "one of the twelve warriors of Charlemagne". Before the Nazis, they fooled the people into being in power, and then they fooled themselves into dying.