2007-12-19 02:40:31 · 16 answers · asked by JoJo 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Yes
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2007-12-19 02:43:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's film archives showing Goebbels giving out gifts at Christmas time to bribe the carefully chosen little white children.
The Nazis were anti-Christian and promoted the pagan idea of the Teutonic knights and Aryan race. Hence why the little shite massacred the Jews.
Hitler's Mein Kampf attacks Roman Catholicism throughout and it is on record many Christians (including Jehovah's Witnesses) were sent to the gas chambers because of their beliefs. The Nazis tried to usurp the churches to make them worship Hitler and read Mein Kampf.
Synagogues were demolished or confiscated, and The Old Testament was made illegal to be read in the churches as it is of-course the Jewish Tanach.
Many Evangelicals objected but it was of-course dangerous.
Church leaders were killed and replaced with Nazi stooges, who were appointed to take over Christian organisations.
It is one reason why state authorities should not appoint religious leaders.
May these people who suffered under pagan Nazi atrocities have their memory honoured always.
2007-12-19 12:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All I can tell you (from GCSE history about ten years ago) is that while Hitler was probably an atheist, he publicly declared himself on several occasions to be a Catholic, for what reasons I'm not sure. So yes I would have thought Christmas was still going on.
I wonder what they ate though? How on earth would you roast a Wienerschnitzel? One perishes the thought!
2007-12-19 10:47:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Yultide as it is often called, is a German [Germanic] Fest which sits right on top of the Christian's Christmas.
Yul-Tide is I think, actually Viking - Germanic anyway.
The Christmas tree which we enjoy today was introduced to UK by Prince Albert, the Prince Consort to Queen Vic.
2007-12-20 03:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by Dragoner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they were. One of the most bizarre documents I have ever seen was an invitation to Christmas party sponsored by the womens' auxiliary of some Nazi Party chapter. It featured a picture of Santa Claus standing by a Christmas tree decorated with swastikas.
2007-12-19 19:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by sjpatejak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
It was a major holiday (the pagan Yuletide aspects were emphasized) and much propaganda was structured to fit into the Christmas context, such as the Winterhilfswerk (Winter-Help) charity campaign run by Joseph Goebbels.
2007-12-19 11:10:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christmas was celebrated even during 1944 when the bombing of the cities was at its worse.
2007-12-20 00:33:51 · answer #7 · answered by Kevan M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes very much so ,he knew that would be a step to far , Christmas is a very important time in Germany
2007-12-19 11:28:16 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
Adolf Hitler
2007-12-19 10:44:46 · answer #9 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course,why ever not?
Hitler wasnt a tyrant ,he loved the German people as much as they loved him.
He personally was an athiest and considered religion a distraction to the Nazi ideology.However,it wasnt pivotal and the german people were strong christians.Indeed,most enlisted men wore an army issue buckle with the words"gott mit uns"(god is with us) pressed into it.
In the soviet union before the war,all religious practice was banned.However,stalin hoping to recruit and strengthen the resolve of his armies and civilians did allow the churches to function again.
edit@becket
Although the Nazis promoted pagan beliefs,
the teutonic knights were actually roman catholic ,with the authority of pope innocent III 1199.
2007-12-19 11:01:04 · answer #10 · answered by Private 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋