Table of Contents
Introduction ………………………………………………………………Page 1
Part I: Christianity and National Socialism
Chapter 1. The New Testament and the Jews ………………………..Page 12
The Hep riots … A great and terrible mystery … The biblical concept of Satan … Original sin … Christian servants of the devil … What is a Christian? … The Bible as the source of anti-Semitism … Paul’s teaching of salvation by faith alone is not an attack on Judaism … The New Testament’s description of Jews … The crucifixion of Christ … Pontius Pilate and the guilt of the Gentiles … Has God rejected the Jews? … Who are the children of the devil? … The Holocaust and the Old Testament … The massacres of the Canaanites … The Nuremberg racial laws … Hitler’s study notes on the Bible … The Christian way of holiness
Chapter 2. Medieval Christian anti-Semitism ………………………..Page 46
The Jewish experience in the Middle Ages … Christian limitations … Concepts of the Jews … Concepts of government … Moral doctrines … Government protection of Jews … The Crusades … The Church of Rome and the Jews … John Chrysostom … The apostles’ attitudes toward the Jews … Chrysostom’s motive … Martin Luther … Some misconceptions about Luther … Luther and the Nazis … Luther in perspective … A secular evaluation of Luther … Matthew Henry and Romans 11 … A glimpse ahead
Chapter 3. Hitler’s secular and ungodly ideas ………………………..Page 78
Hitler in the light of scripture … A blatant absence of Christian doctrines … Hitler’s unbiblical principles … Hostility to Christianity in Mein Kampf … An honest liar … Hitler the Catholic? … Honest Adolf strikes again … Christ in Mein Kampf … Hitler’s last will and testament … Hitler’s references to God … Hitler’s references to the Bible … Hitler’s expressions of support for Christianity and the German churches … The example of the trade unions … The Nazi party platform supported “positive” Christianity … Hitler’s policy toward the churches – words contradicted by deeds … Nazi church policies in Austria … Nazi church policies in the Warthegau … Hitler linked to Christianity … Hatred and fear of Christianity … A bias revealed … A lack of information … Illogical arguments … Misstatements of fact … Hitler’s Table Talk … Quotes from Hitler’s followers … Nazi photos … Nazi artifacts … Ignorance of Christianity … Paul’s letter to the Galatians
Chapter 4. The Christians in Nazi Germany ……………………….Page 141
Judging by outward appearances … Modern Germany – a Christian nation? … How did Hitler deceive an entire nation? He didn’t. … A master of deceit … The churches’ responsibility for Hitler’s rise … Intimidation, violence, repression, and fear … A question of human nature … A few rare exceptions … Christian opposition to the euthanasia program … Alfred Rosenberg … Administrative control … The ideological challenge … Persecution … The Confessing Church … The Barmen Declaration … Dietrich Bonhoeffer … The Germanic Christians … The culmination of apostasy … Wellhausen and Bultmann … The Catholics … The Concordat … The failure of the churches to speak out for the Jews … Martin Niemoller … What should have been done? … Romans 13 – the authority of government and the sovereignty of God … A Christmas in Nazi Germany … Christians in other lands
Part II: The Origins of National Socialism
Chapter 5. The philosophical background …………………………..Page 197
The mystery of Hitler … The need for a world view … The role of technology … Some Russian history … Germany, Russia, China, Italy, and Japan … The roots of an ideology … A well-behaved young man … Descartes and the “Enlightenment” … A few words about the French Revolution and Napoleon … The “Enlightenment” in Germany … A brief overview … Kant …German philosophy and anti-Semitism in Mein Kampf … Concluding thoughts on Kant … Hitler and Fichte … Hitler the intellectual? … Fichte and National Socialism … Fichte, the Jews, and Christianity … The danger of philosophy … Friedrich Ludwig Jahn … Hegel … Hegel’s philosophy … Hegel and the Jews …Schopenhauer … Gobineau … The Folkish movement … Paul Lagarde … German romanticism … Julius Langbehn … The Pan-German Association … The Folkish movement and Christianity
Chapter 6. Wagner …………………………………………………….Page 256
A Folkish prophet … The importance of racial purity … Racial unity and the need for a leader … Wagner’s socialism … Wagner and Christianity … Wagner and the Jews … Wagner and Hitler … Some criticisms of Viereck
Chapter 7. Chamberlain ………………………………………………Page 279
A spiritual founder of National Socialism … Chamberlain on the Jews – a philosophical and scientific approach … Two key presuppositions … A secular history of the Jewish people … The Jewish idea … The influence of Judaism … The revelation of Christ?
Chapter 8. Haeckel ……………………………………………………Page 303
Darwin, Haeckel, and Hitler … A barrier assaulted … Did Hitler believe Darwin’s theory? … The marriage of science and philosophy … The practical implication’s of Haeckel’s ideas … Haeckel’s ethics … Euthanasia … Haeckel’s anti-Semitism … Haeckel’s idea of God … Haeckel’s unscientific ideas … A brief overview … Haeckel and Hitler … Did Haeckel influence Hitler? … Haeckel and Darwin
Chapter 9. Nietzsche ……………………………………………………Page 333
The quintessentially modern man … The Nazi philosopher? … Nietzsche’s Antichrist … Nietzsche and Christianity … Nietzsche and the Jews … Nietzsche’s view of Christ … Paul and the emergence of Christianity … The Jewish menace to civilization … More teachings of The Antichrist … On the Genealogy of Morals … Hitler’s Table Talk … Hitler, the atheistic theist … Concluding thoughts on Nietzsche
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………Page 363
Bibliography …………………………………………………………….Page 379
Index …………………………………………………………………….Page 385
A word about quotations from the author:
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