Hitler, Evolution, and Christianity

If you call that an "assertion", then it will remain unsupported

If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech to the "Old Guard" at Munich on 24 Feb. 1939

Let's take, for example, Hitler and Nazism:--was he mainly Christian, as some might maintain by quoting what appear to be Christian passages from his speeches, or mainly pseudo-Darwinian, as I maintain? And how much did his purported Christian belief or purported pseudo-Darwinian belief influence Nazism?

David Irving wrote a book, one of his more filler and fluff books on what kind of medicines, vitamins, minerals and anti-gas pills Hitler was taking by mouth and by direct intravenous injection (or was it intramuscular? I do not have my files here! I am going strictly by memory (faulty since the bomb and fire). But I did have the benefit of years of contact with Dr. Hans Dietrich Roehrs, who wrote a very important and hotly persecuted book in the 1960s entitled Adolf Hitler: Die Zerstoerung einer Persoenligkeit [Adolf Hitler: Destruction of a Personality], published or at least distributed by the Scharnhorst Buchgemeinschaft, in which he details how Morrell was manoeuvred into Hitler’s path — then inner circle — and how he compromised Hitler’s emotional and physical state of mind by the administration of potions which were, of all things imported from Portugal, via Hungary, via Prague to Berlin!Dr. Roehrs suspected that Hitler was being poisoned, and since he was the third highest doctor in the Third Reich, and, as a bureaucrat in Dr. Conti’s Health Ministry, he had access to the prescriptions and content of what Morrell gave Hitler! He began to investigate what Hitler was on! Dr. Roehrs wanted to see what the effects were, that these compounds produced, had some ordered and injected them into himself in the same doses Hitler was given by Morrell.He described to me what happened to him as the drugs took effect. He gave them to himself in the same time sequence Hitler got his -- a certain amount of time before an important speech in Warsaw before 500 doctors and health care professionals in the East in the 1940s!He said that he experienced a dissociation between his conscious mind and his personality — he gave a rousing speech, frequently interrupted by rounds of applause — which he experienced himself as if he was totally shielded, as if by a glass curtain, from his enthusiastic audience — to which he felt no connection, but an eerie separateness! An aloofness — other-worldly!After the speech he was introduced to selected members of the audience and political functionaries — again, they were not aware of his dissociated state!As it began to wear off he had the same feeling that comes associated with a hangover!

To attribute the horrors of the Holocaust to some Darwinian connection is as invalid as attributing it to Christianity and there is far more evidence for the Christian connection.

Strictly speaking, I was trying to say that the German people heard the word Volk in a traditional sense. Hitler was an astute enough politician to know that and take advantage of it.

Jar writes:Anti-semitism was also ubiquitous. It was not simply a German Phenomenon. It was absolutely a Christian driven phenomenon and around long before Darwin.

Jar writes:Please explain Anti-Semitism in a Non-Christian context.

"Perhaps the most important reason the Holocaust happened is that the Church had forgotten its Jewish roots."

Phatboy writes:How can I explain anti sematism anyway???I look at it as a flaw in human nature...

I suppose it arises from the fact that Jews never had a state during the early modern period when the spoils of Europe and elsewhere were being shared out. Exactly the same situation applies to Roma and Kurds.