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ANCIENT IDEA REVIVED. NAZI OBSERVANCE. “HOLY FIRES’’ LIGHTED ' (Received 9 a,m.) NEW; YORK, December 25. The Berlin correspondent of the “New York Times” says a' definite effort to transform Christmas symbolism into something closer to the Nazi idea of- “Blood and Soil” was noticeable this-year. For the first time, perhaps; since the Christianisation of the Germanic tribes, a Christmas celebration, in which new rites were introduced, was observed by selected, representatives of the Labour Service jArmy.
In the presence of the Commander-in-Chief, Hierlat Rhulsdorf, near Berlin, they set fire to a solstice pyre, saying: “These holy fires we light to brate the turning of the sun.” Before the pyre the inmates of the camp stood with burning torches. The Governor of Brandenberg, in a, journalistic contribution —of which there were several similar intoned l by leading Nazi • figures to-day—said: “The day of the winter solstice is holy to our ancestors and the period was filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soiil.’* , .
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Northern Advocate, 27 December 1934, Page 5
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