The Hakenkreuz Dilemma
Hakenkreuz is a German literary concoction, from one of the most hateful ideologies to exist in the fabric of human society. As one sits down to understand the origin of this symbolism, it translates to a “hooked cross”, or a cross with bent arms. However, one doesn’t need to go far to understand that what really was bent - were their conscience.
There has been a constant debate over resolving the identity crisis that sprawls all hatemongers throughout history. Whether it being the Islamists trying to whitewash their genocidal past, or the Christians trying to wash off the blood of millions from their hands.
One such discussion is, “Whether Hitler was a Christian?” And often trails long-form debates, involving from self-declared intellectuals to Christian crusade aficionados who attempt to undo the linkage of Adolf with the Church, whose life accounts are tainted with the same.
Hitler’s religious and theological views
One such disposition that is often missing in mainstream, when we attempt to derive the reasons for which a person could extol genocides and manufacture such a low-grade superiority affirmation framework, just to appease his kin.
It often garners criticism from galling intellectuals of the modern era, who refuse to accept that Nazism is just a radical response of the Catholic church wrapped in racial and political cover. Whiteism and Christianity often find themselves hand-in-hand, when it comes to target the ones who aren’t alike, or for those who are beyond their comprehension. Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and even the Christians who are melaninically superior.
To understand this more broadly, let's look at a few excerpts from historical accounts of Hitler, to unveil their lies:
From a speech on April 12, 1922 at Munich,
“My feelings as a Christian point 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. 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.”, where he publicly affirmed the main cause of downfall of German society was being aloof to Christian faith. Moreover, his addresses confirmed that Nazism was indeed the dagger of Christ in contemporary times.
Even in his own autobiography, Mein Kampf, he mentions
“In defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord Christ.”, in 1925. His continuous commitments to ‘saving’ the Christian faith from Jewish abomination is rarely a missing feat.
If one still finds a hint of skepticism to believe that he indeed was a Christian warmonger with a classical repaint, here’s an excerpt from his speech that was delivered on 26 June, 1934: “We are determined to prevent our people from being destroyed by a foreign faith, and we are determined to preserve the moral foundations of our nation in Christianity.”, where he openly appeals to his solidarity with Christian faith and strikes an equation of it to his political moralism.
One of his deliberations in a Speech on October 27, 1928 in Passau during one of his core political presentations noted, “We tolerate no one in ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian”.
For those still not convinced, a large part of Adolf’s identity was centered around his early days as an Artist. Prior to being rejected from an Art School, one of his famous paintings was a version of Mary with the Christ Child. It was titled Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ in 1913.
Post-war redressal and damage control rhetoric
Once the war ended, the Vatican paired up with academic institutions across the globe to help repair the explicit demonstration of radicalism by the Nazis. This was mainly to structurally revoke anyone’s ability to establish correlation between Hitler’s ideas and Christian ideals.
The idea was mainly to help re-establish moral grounds, and bring the attention away from the Christian dimension of the bloody debacle. But, it failed. It failed to undo the decades of recorded history that was largely expressive of Hitler’s identity. It revealed how Nazism was fundamentally bolstered on ammunition it sought from Christianity and the Biblical institutions.
Deflection and denialism tinkers in everyday communication, if one tries to accuse the Church of perpetrating one of the bloodiest genocides in history. Organizations like the American Catholic Church, the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches have acted pivotal to spreading Christian sentiments across the world. From funding private foundations to endeavoring academic excess in an attempt to prove Christ’s uneven foundations, they have been engaged in all malice for all one could care.
It is to no surprise that Christian faith has done irreversible damage to the world. From erosion of culture, to establishing dogmatic dominion over pagan and aboriginal faiths across the world, they have always been primary actors in the socio-political conflicts. Hindus, promptly serve the interests of such ideological groups by giving them a chance to redeem themselves in the glitter of moral superiority.
