Hitler Plans Pagan Yuletide
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 17
Herr Hitler intends that Christmas Day shall be celebrated as a festival, and .organisations have been ordered to de-Christianise the ceremony, celebrating it by a feast based on the pre-Christiah days of the old Pagan
German tribes, without carols or hymns. The shops are not displaying Christmas emblems.
The chief of the secret police, Herr Himmler, has dissolved the German Freedom Society and the Geusen League, which was linked up with the Seventh Day Adventists. It is explained that the decision is due to a desire to protect the State and people.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1938, Page 7
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