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**InsManKV** · 03-01-2012, 05:50 PM

I don't think that one can characterize the Nazi regime as "atheistic".

As far as I can judge from a number of sources, the Nazi regime was anti-Christian, but not atheist in the way the Communist regime was. Nazi leaders were interested in the supernatural. They tried to invent a new religion but it was more like some sort of new age spirituality. Some of them tried to restore a sort of Germanic paganism, others - to build an Aryan 'church' without 'Jewish' elements. They were interested in the magic of runes, in astrology and what not. Hitler was a vegetarian and liked to speak of some sort of 'Providence'. There is a lot of speculation about the role of occultism in the development of Nazi ideology, but one can say for sure only that Nazis tended to be superstitious and some of them took interest in neo-Paganism and teachings of some secretive occult sects, and that they wanted to elaborate a new religion which would help to achieve their political and geopolitical goals and be the spiritual basis of the Nazi empire.

03-01-2012, 05:50 PM	#7
InsManKV Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	I don't think that one can characterize the Nazi regime as "atheistic". As far as I can judge from a number of sources, the Nazi regime was anti-Christian, but not atheist in the way the Communist regime was. Nazi leaders were interested in the supernatural. They tried to invent a new religion but it was more like some sort of new age spirituality. Some of them tried to restore a sort of Germanic paganism, others - to build an Aryan 'church' without 'Jewish' elements. They were interested in the magic of runes, in astrology and what not. Hitler was a vegetarian and liked to speak of some sort of 'Providence'. There is a lot of speculation about the role of occultism in the development of Nazi ideology, but one can say for sure only that Nazis tended to be superstitious and some of them took interest in neo-Paganism and teachings of some secretive occult sects, and that they wanted to elaborate a new religion which would help to achieve their political and geopolitical goals and be the spiritual basis of the Nazi empire.
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