Reply #30: National Socialism as Religion

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Thomas Schirrmacher, D.Th., Ph.D., Th.D., DD
President of Martin Bucer Theological Seminary

... Document 8: Song

The official song of the Hitlerjugend (‘Youth of Hitler’) at the Reichsparteitag 1934:

"We are Hitler’s joyous youth,
What need we Christian virtue!,
Our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler
Is always our redeemer!
No wicked priest can hinder us,
To sense that we are Hitler’s children;
We follow not Christ but Horst Wessel,
Away with incense and holy water!."<10> ...

http://www.trinitysem.edu/journal/4-3/3_Schirrmacher_%20NS_%20FINAL.htm