Nazism AntiChistian Bartlett

Nazi Germany Explained, by Vernon Bartlett. 1933

The Neo-Pagan Aspects of German Nazism, Far From Being Marginal, Were Having a Major Impact on German Thinking Already by 1933

The author provides an early-1930s British perspective on the Nazi movement in Germany. Owing to the fact that it long precedes WWII and the Holocaust, it is not colored by these events.

The author presents some of the Nazi arguments against Jews, but does not evaluate them. However, consider the question of Jewish profiteering from German hyperinflation. Author Vernon Bartlett contends that “there was just enough truth in these accusations”, of Jews using their superior business links with other countries, to buy-up German property. (pp. 81-82).

THE NAZI REVIVAL OF GERMAN PAGANISM: DEEP ROOTS IN GERMAN SOCIETY

There are those today who, prone to blaming Christianity for the Holocaust, have tried to downplay the anti-Christian and neo-pagan aspects of Nazism. This scholar was not among them.

Bartlett sagely comments, (quote) At times all this talk of Wotan and the old pagan gods leads one to expect that Germany will turn away from Christianity altogether, will throw it off as a foreign import-action invented by Jews and Latins. The harvest thanksgiving on October 1st revived customs that had passed into disuse centuries ago. There is a strong movement on foot in the Protestant Church to abolish the teaching of the Old Testament altogether, since it deals with non-Aryans, and to revert to the heroes of Teutonic mythology. (unquote). (p. 88).