HITLER YOUTH

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12730, 1 May 1939, Page 6

HITLER YOUTH

INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY NAZI GOVERNMENT “Tbes;e instructions for Hitler youth used by the Nazi Government, v.-ere brought back from Germany re’cently by Dr Conrad Hoffmann, Jr.. Assistant Secretary of the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dr Hoffmann was in Germany for four months during the past summer and made a careful, first-hand study of Nazi attitudes towards both Jews and Christians.'' We quote from “The Churchman" some of the Nazi instructions against Christianity: “Christianity is a religion for slaves and fools: e.g. (1) ‘The last shall be first, the first shall be last,’ (2) ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit.’ ” “Christianity believes in tile equality of Negroes and Germans.’’ “The church is international.” “The New Testament is a Jewish ‘Wangle’ of four evangelists for they took the whole idea from the Indian belief of Jischuu Christo.” , “Before Christianity Germanic culture was a very high order. This culture was destroyed by Christianity. (This is revealed by the memorials, clothes and art.) While the Romans were still using hoes the Germans had already ploughs.” “During the Crusade's- German blood was needlessly spilt; this was one of the greatest follies of the Papacy.” ' “Christianity has always been foreign and inimical to the German people.” “The Bible is the continuation of the Talmud, and is quite Jewish in construction, especially the Old Testament.” r ‘Christian culture does not exist.” “Christianity is always unwanted and yet forces itself everywhere.” “Bad things pass; good things remain; therefore the Catholic Church must decline or fall.” “Christianity is a substitute for [Juadism and is created by the Jews —its centre is Rome.” “There are contradictions in the gospels concerning the ancestry,, of Christ.” ■ ■' • : “Proof that Christ was no God: ‘Woman, what have I to do with thee|’ ” ... . ' " “How did Christ die (whimpering on a cross).; How did Pianette die (Heil Hitler, and long live Germany). - “The fourth commandment is just pure Jewish commercialism, (I give and therefore I receive) .’i “The Ten are the exposure of the ‘ lowest?-Instincts of mankind.” , 1 “World. Messiahs can. iOiily be accepted by bad /people—good ones need ‘ no. redeemer".’’•,/. “Nero was qiiite "right in persecuting Christians (he wanted to exterminate Jewish ideas (he. Christianity). ' * f “Adoration of saints- -is foolish. Saints have upver rendered any ser-, vice. . When some man liyecjl amongst pigs in 1 the filthiest conditions he was considered to be a saint.” ■/Wad'’"'!©* his discovery; because it was written in the Bible that r the/sun goes round the earth.” “Christianity has always hamperdiscovery as one can observe in medicine.” • :“The powder of the Church and yet her incapacity to make , peace during the Great ’War; the .reason . was . that it, wished to destroy the Germans.” “Now people are no longer building churches;/ no one can be found to build /tfieni;- —this reveals the decline ; of Christianity., .V Now stadiums: ;l ate built instead.” . - A - ; ;/ . “The -ndw eternal centre is Nuremburg. Rome is declining.” Syllabus “1, .The. humann.races show; such 'great variation' that the difference; between the lowest and highest ! rabh; ; of human .beings-dh . greater than between •.the-highest races of human beungs and the’highest races of ; animals. , / 4 ” ; - One race by every means and safeguard the purify bf'the’ blood,-and- all-thaf us 7j .sists in doing this is honourable and 3. Prom'fh^jß’lpOct'and The law of race moral., qualities of human beings. The most important aim of ’educatTdn is-to foster The-character-istics of ’the race and to urge the people to an immense love of their own race as their highest ideal. “5. The law of the race is above religion and religion must subscribe to this law of race. “6. The law of every just order is race consciouness. ' *“7. Every person owes his existence to the State. All rights given to a human being are only given him as favour of the State.” There are, of course, hundreds of thousands of Christians in Germany.

The “instructions” quoted are typical of those who persecute the German pastors and members of the Confessional Church, remarks “Public Opinion.”