NEW PAGANISM
NEBULOUS NAZI FAITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT FEATURES OF "CHURCHES" By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 10, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 10 The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that "churches" of the new paganism, which are especially strong in Herr Himmler's Black Guards and the Hitler Youth movement, were recently inaugurated at Ouestrow, Wismar and Doberan, in Mecklenburg. They mark an important stage in the development of the still nebulous German faith which is intended to supplant "Jewish Christianity." These "churches" are called "Ahnehallen" or "ancestors' halla," in which Nazi district leaders officiate as "high priests." The chief features of the religion are worship of the "holy German earth, family and race" and adoration of Herr Hitler and the ancestors of local families whose names are inscribed on the wall-tablets. The Ministry of the Interior has dissolved the Christian Association of German Railwaymen. *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22933, 11 January 1938, Page 9
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