Æsir

National Socialist and Document-Enjoyer

Documenting the nuances on religionpolitik in National Socialist Germany.

ᛉ 𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐓 𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐄𝐍 ᛣ

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𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃𝐒: 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐘, 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍?

𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳:
- Is individual salvation over species interest, folkish? (𝐍𝐨.)

- Does the Christian God allow anyone despite of racial and hereditary development to be "saved"? (𝐘𝐞𝐬.)

- Will our efforts of racial-hygiene/purity truly matter in the racial-universal kingdom of Heaven? (𝐍𝐨.)

- Is the denial of this World in preparation for the afterlife, Life-Affirming? (𝐍𝐨.)

- Is the suppression of human instinct, Life-Affirming? (𝐍𝐨.)

✟:
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever."
[1 John 2:15-16]

ϟϟ:
"Today we view Christianity as a movement that arose within the Jewish people almost 2000 years ago, which finds its origin in a theory of the end of the world, since its emergence, in its negation of life and its focus on the afterlife, would not be explainable otherwise. [...] Due to their strong inner connection to Judaism, all denominations, despite all outwardly divisive factors, agree on one point: the rejection of the race question, the affirmation of which would shake their foundations and bring them crashing down."
[BArch RS 3-23/22 Unterlage für weltanschauliche Erziehung in der Waffen-SS, v. Apr. 1944]

Here, and especially now, we are faced with two separate worldviews locked in conflict. The Life-affirming and biological basis of National Socialism, and negation of this world in the Bible. National Socialism see's the importance of the world through Natural Law. That is our reverence to God. That the divinity is also found in it's expression of this world.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖

"We National Socialists are convinced that there is a meaningful relationship to the universe and to creation. We are not irreverent or godless, but rather submit to a higher power. However, we have no intention of trying to approach this higher being through brooding and philosophizing. Instead, we strive to fulfill its laws, that is, the laws of Nature. Nature did not create us as individuals, but as members of a community. This is the insight upon which the worldview of National Socialism is built. It places each individual within the community and obligates them to serve their family, their clan, their people, their race—that is, their fatherland. The individual's obligation culminates in the dedication of their life to this national community. Each living generation is only one link in the chain that begins with the earliest ancestors and continues into the future with subsequent generations. The living bloodbearers of the national community are responsible for the existence and future of the nation. It is therefore to the detriment of an entire people when an individual corrupts their healthy genetic heritage and thereby endangers the survival of their lineage. Everyone has the task and high obligation to ensure the preservation of a valuable genetic stock for their descendants. Only in this way is the future of a people guaranteed."

Source: BArch RS 3-17/38 "Die nationalsozialistiche Weltanschauung" Weltanschauliche Schulung, SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen" VI https://t.co/jQjkUDiZBl.Qu., den 24.3.1944 p.134

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐋 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐌

"However, in these early times, it [the Swastika] does not appear at all in Egypt. Nor in the Semitic world; and now the following is very remarkable: Semitic peoples were to conquer Mesopotamia, where the swastika was known and even occurred very frequently. However, they did not adopt it there, but it disappeared. There was apparently a reason why this symbol did not appeal to them. Now it has once again become the holy symbol against Semitism."

Source: Vormingsbladen der Germaansche-SS, 4e Jaargang 1, Louwmaand "Het Hakenkruis" (1944) p.29

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐉𝐔𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐌

"An unexpected boost to their goals came with the so-called emancipation ("liberation") of Judaism. Firstly, it was a consequence of the tolerant and humane attitude of the so-called Age of Enlightenment (18th century), which culminated in the French Revolution of 1789. Secondly, the church-influenced view of Judaism as a "denomination" (Mosaic) obscured the racial realities. Indeed, the shared foundation of Christianity and Judaism (the Old Testament and Jewish historical foundations) led to that unfortunate blurring of racial differences and thus to the deception surrounding the true Jewish character. Thirdly, the equality of Jews marked their gradually acquired position of power. A new stage in the struggle for dominance by the "foreign people" had been achieved, and this was consistently exploited and secured by them in the most important and influential spheres of life. The results of Jewish emancipation became quite apparent in Germany."

This specific book was endorsed by the NSDAP as true:

"This publication is recommended for acquisition and promotion by the NSDAP, its branches and affiliated associations, as well as by non-party organizations and bodies."

Source: BArch NS 18/1324 Nationalpolitische Aufklärungsschriften, Heft 8, Bolschewismus Von der liberalistisch-marxistischen Weltanschauung zur Politik der Volkszerstörung von Heinz Oskar Schaefer p.116

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𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐒

"Secondly, for over a millennium, the German people were burdened by the excessive pressure of an alien faith system, which only had to be painstakingly and gradually adapted, as best as possible, to the nature of our people. The delusional pressure exerted by the Church on spirit and morality for such a long time has of course not left us unaffected; a largely unresolved morality and a dull, inner lack of freedom are the sad after-effects."

Source: Das Schwarze Korps, "Der deutsche 'Untertan'", Folge 36, 7. September 1939, p.4

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I agree with Hitler completely there. Race > religion. You seem to fall into kosher propaganda that I want to revive Wotan. National Socialism transcends private confession.

Another thing that's funny, you intentionally cut out the part of that specific table talks quote on Hitler's view of Christianity:

"Man kann sich deshalb vom Christentum nicht besser lösen als dadurch, daß man es ausklingen läßt."

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𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘

The great personality of Charlemagne in the unification of the Germanic tribes is what fostered our people back to its rightful place indirectly aiding in blood and soil. It must not be overlooked however, as the 𐓏𐓏 writes, that the worldview (Christianity) which Charlemagne brought was alien to the Germanic Volk:

"We must not begin the history of the "reich" with Charlemagne, but with the megalithic tombs in the heath. Germanic culture, not Christianity, stands at the beginning of this story. 2000 years before the Common Era, our ancestors inhabited the core Nordic region (southern Scandinavia, the Danish islands, Schleswig-Holstein, and the coastal areas of the North and Baltic Seas). [...] In essence, Charlemagne no longer ruled a Frankish empire, but rather a Franco-German one. His residence in Aachen bore witness to this. Nevertheless, Charlemagne's global empire was to acquire a Germanic character. Even Widukind had to submit to him. Both men, Charlemagne and Widukind, fought; Charlemagne championed unification, while Widukind fought for the honor of his kinsmen against the beginnings of an ALIEN WORLDVIEW. Both convey the magnitude and gravity of early German history."

Leaving Widukind out of the picture in German history would be Anti-Germanic. Blood and soil must be recognized even over confession.

Source: "Das Reich Karls des Grossen", "Germanenreiche" BArch RS 3-8/16 weltanschauliche Erziehung in der SS-Kav.-Brigade, Erarbeitet von der Abt. VI der SS-Kav.-Brigade 1942 p.53, p.55-57

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@elysianiiiv At least hide your brown slop. Abit low effort tbh

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𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐋𝐄

"Here too we know ONLY ONE principle, namely the preservation of our race, the preservation of our species. Everything that serves this principle is right. Everything that is detrimental to it is wrong."

— Adolf Hitler

Source: BArch NS 19/1452 Rede Hitlers vor Generalen und Offizieren am 26. Mai 1944 im Platterhof p.113

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𝐃𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐙𝐄 𝐊𝐎𝐑𝐏𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄, 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍

"Culture and civilization are two different things - culture is the sum of all the intellectual and spiritual needs of a nation, while civilization is the sum of those institutions that allow people to satisfy their physical and material needs. The two are not mutually dependent; our Germanic ancestors placed high intellectual demands on moral law and on the faith of the individual, and in doing so managed with a minimum of civilization. On the other hand, there are modern states that are leaders in the construction of skyscrapers, bathtubs, and tractors, but have to borrow their cultural assets from others. Civilization can be created - if you teach a Negro how to use soap, how to drive a car, put pants on him, and let him earn the money necessary to purchase a portable gramophone, he will gradually become civilized and eventually live impeccably in an eight-room apartment with running water and a built-in home bar. But you cannot teach him culture; if that were possible, the centuries of effort by missionaries would have had to produce visible results - these are doubtful and, at best, civilizing in nature. [...] It should suffice to "bring" culture to them, just as Marxism sought to bring material goods, civilization, to people. Unfortunately, in doing so, it misunderstood the nature of culture. It did not see in it the innate human spiritual need conditioned by race and genetic makeup, but rather a commodity, a purchasable luxury item that could be obtained at discounted prices through consumer cooperatives, like liquor and cigarettes. [...] Civilization should be organized in such a way that the culture of the individual is not restricted, but culture itself cannot be handed to them on a silver platter - each person must come to terms with it on their own, just as they must come to terms with the questions of faith and conscience that move them. Churches can be built with or without confessionals, but faith cannot be created by forcing people into churches. The churches have solved the social problem perfectly by allowing even the poorest free admission - but they cannot claim that they have thereby solved the problem of faith."

Source: Auf Hieb und Stich Stimmen zur Zeit am Wege einer deutschen Zeitung herausgegeben von Gunter d'Alquen (1937) p. 295, p.298-299

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𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒

A radical and rampant objection to our beliefs is the accusation that we are closet-Atheists or wish remove God out of the equation of everything. This not only applies to us today, but to the original National Socialists who professed the mysteries and ancestral link to God. The christian term used for this was commonly "Heathen" as synonymous as Godless. We of course do not accept the slanderous christian interpretation of "Heathen", but accept the term as a belief in something higher outside semitic interpretation. National Socialism sees God as the impersonal cosmic force which guides all of Life whether if we are conscious of it or not. That is the Almighty.

Letters compiled by the chief editor of Das Schwarze Korps Gunter d'Alquen outlines this perfectly:

"The National Socialist worldview presupposes a conscious adherent of faith, and its claim to totality is grounded in its fundamental belief as the prerequisite for any further goal. Because we did not advocate for any particular denomination or dogma, we were often labeled atheists or deniers of God through the misuse of the word "heathen." Do we need to rebel against this? Should we prove that God exists? Let the atheists prove that he does not exist; we believe! We believe in God, the mighty one; we see him in his becoming and growing, and we cherish in our people his most magnificent creation, which signifies divine revelation to us. We believe in God, the almighty one, who cannot be bargained with or forced into petty limitations and forms, for he himself gave us the measure to comprehend him: the depth and breadth of human thought. We believe in eternity, in the eternity of all the great deeds and works of people who helped shape the face of the people; we believe in eternal life as links in a mighty chain that reaches from the primordial depths behind us, through the present of our time, into the future of the nation's continued life."

Here, God is described as a dynamic impersonal force which we serve in its eternity in our Volk. That is our revelation.

Source: Das ist der Sieg! Briefe des Glaubens in Aufbruch und Krieg herausgegeben von Gunter d'Alquen "Die Saat geht auf" (Zentralverlag der NSDAP., Franz Eher Nachf., 1940) p.104-105

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𝐃𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐙𝐄 𝐊𝐎𝐑𝐏𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐂 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐆𝐆𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐍

"There was a time when the contrast between body and soul formed the cornerstone of thinking; however, in its battle against the energetic and life-affirming Nordic ruling class of all European states at that time, Christian medieval dogma used the Oriental concept of original sin and declared all natural bodily urges, even the entire healthy sensory life, to be hostile to God - the entire world of this life was contrasted with a world of the soul, detached from it, so to speak, by using the hope of the hereafter as the driving force behind the supposed ennoblement of man. Within this whole system of dogma, which is alien to our nature and essence, the rule of the strong, life-loving Germanic peoples over the world was to be hollowed out from within and ultimately brought down; the most dangerous argument in the chain of all these sophistries was the doctrine that the life of the soul had an unconditional prerogative in all areas, which would have been synonymous with the rule of the clergy in political matters as well. On the whole, the Nordic spirit has triumphed over this medieval, gloomy world of belief in sin; we know that, as the ancient Greeks and Romans, who still felt Nordic, already recognized that a healthy soul can only dwell in a healthy body, and that true humanity only exists when soul and body, inner and outer life, form a perfect unity. We believe that the lofty demand once made by Nietzsche, “A time will come when the spirit will be as at home in the senses as the senses are in the spirit,” will soon be fulfilled; therefore, we want nothing to do with the defamation of physicality that still haunts the minds of some “do-gooders.” [...] Nordic Greece had already established the eternally valid guidelines for the physical well-being of our race - since the Renaissance, when the Nordic attitude to life triumphed over monastic obscurantism, the figures of classical sculpture have begun their triumphal march across the world as the most perfect expressions of the human sense of beauty; no one, not even the popes, who artfully promoted the revival of classical antiquity, thought to morally object to this irrefutable canon of the ideal of beauty, apart from a few fig leaves that the dying Middle Ages quickly attached to their original branches."

Source: Auf Hieb und Stich Stimmen zur Zeit am Wege einer deutschen Zeitung herausgegeben von Gunter d'Alquen (1937) p.118-119

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𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐂𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

"We have knocked the old bourgeois views on the relationship between the two sexes off their pedestal. We despise the marriage certificate mentality, which demands a virgin bride and permits the husband, after ecclesiastical or official permission, to abuse his wife for anything. We despise the hypocrisy with which the newlywed husband attempts to mask "a past," or with which neighbors, friends, and relatives begin counting after the birth of the firstborn to see whether the young sprout arrived "properly" on time. We can only offer a mocking laugh for that mentality which recognizes illegitimate mothers and illegitimate children, but no illegitimate fathers. We do not expel the unmarried woman with her child from our community, although for us the family is the foundation of the national community. Mannish women and suffragettes have no place in our world. But neither do we discard the Muslim and Catholic views regarding the inferiority of women, which have manifested themselves both in witch persecutions and in the belief that women belong only in the kitchen. In all these matters, we do away with the prevailing bourgeois morality, even where it rests on ecclesiastical or so-called "divine" authority and "revelations." Our standard, the guiding principle of our actions and our worldview, is explored within our own being and can point the way there. But then it is also necessary that we reflect upon this very being in order to use it as a compass for our actions. In practice, it appears all too often that old bourgeois concepts are thrown overboard with great enthusiasm because it is simpler, but that the person concerned subsequently ends up in a kind of void in which the force field of one's own Nordic race is completely absent. In the relationship between man and woman, this leads—on both sides—to licentiousness. We must, however, realize that self-control has always occupied an important place in the highest expressions of our worldview and attitude to life. The discipline instilled in us, not least in the SS, is merely a first step on the road to self-discipline. The man or woman who does not carry these standards within themselves, or who lacks the strength or awareness to adhere to them, cannot be an example to us. Unbridled dynamism ultimately leads to self-destruction; the depopulation of the Germanic lands would be one of the consequences of this. Therefore, the instinctive and intuitive certainty of the path to be followed must not be lacking in the revolutionary act of our new generation."

Source: Vormingsbladen der Germaansche-SS, Vijfde jaargang Nr. 2 Sprokkelmaand "REVOLUTIE EN ZELFTUCHT" 1945 p.460

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐂 𝐃𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐘 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘

"Traditionally, Christianity views women as human beings of second rank and marriage as a necessary evil. When we say "traditionally," we mean how it developed in the first centuries. Paul already says (1 Cor. 7:1): "It is better for a man not to touch a woman." Here, man stands for man! — and at the Second Synod of Mâcon (585), a bishop defended the position that woman is not a human being. Origen, one of the greatest Christian scholars of the second century, castrated himself. And his teacher, Clement of Alexandria, placed chastity above the marital state, although he was the first to sanctify marriage. Broadly speaking, this is still the view of the Church. Originally, the Church concerned itself little with marriage. It only blessed ("bridulms") after the marriage had been consummated. The announcement of marriage in the church ("the three calls") was already required by Charles the Frankish King and elevated to ecclesiastical law by the Second Lateran Synod. In the 14th century, a kind of ecclesiastical marriage emerged, as the priest took, or could take, the place of the secular marriage guardian. [...] This attitude of Christianity towards marriage can be traced back to the notion that sexual intercourse belongs to carnal lusts and stands in the way of, or detracts from, spiritual life, and is fundamentally sinful. The source of all this evil is the woman, who has therefore been called the "gate of hell." For the Germanic man, on the other hand, marriage is sacred in itself, and the Maternal is an aspect of the deepest essence of things. The Reformation, which represented a Germanic protest, therefore revised the notion that it would be better to remain unmarried. But it remained stuck halfway in this as well: it retained the patriarchal form of marriage, in which the man is the authority, the woman the subordinate, docile, obedient lesser half. We discussed this in SS-Vormingsbladen 1944, No. 12, pp. 383–385 and do not wish to repeat it here, but merely point out that it is un-Germanic. From this arose the Gretchen ideal. [...] In Eastern Semitic terms, the woman is the possession of the man. In the first book of the Old Testament, it is stated: “In sorrow you shall bear children, you shall serve your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Something of this is also present in the Gretchen ideal, and to that extent, it is un-Germanic. However, let us not think above all that it once possessed general validity, however characteristic it may have been of certain circles and times. Alongside this, another ideal always existed, and we find significant female figures throughout our Germanic history."

Source: Vormingsbladen der Germaansche-SS, Vijfde jaargang Nr. 2 Sprokkelmaand "VROUWENIDEAAL" 1945 p.434-436

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𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐒-𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐍

"In the Vormingsbladen, we have written more than once about women, about the contradiction that exists between their place in a Germanic community and Germanic marriage, and the place they occupy, for example, in the Semitic world. The latter concerns us directly, because through Christianity, Semitic influences became active in the Germanic lands and continue to do so. We have, however, partially undone these influences. Views once held by the Church—such as those found, for example, in the handbook for the Keunissenprocessen—have become impossible for us. And yet, something remains; there is still doubt as to whether women do not actually stand in second place. Much worse in recent times is the undermining of our own community and healthy sexual life, which originated from Judaism within our own midst. As a result, relations have become highly clouded. While at one time women were "liberated," on the other hand, they were blindly deprived of the truth. Developments that could essentially have been healthy and fruitful were ruined, and it seemed as if the instinctive knowledge of the right path—something which woman always possessed more strongly than man—was so overgrown that it could not break through. "National Socialism is a worldview," says the Führer, and he has also said: "At all times—worldviews have determined not only the essence of politics, but also the form of cultural life." Thus, politics and culture are closely intertwined, and if we wish to be "political soldiers," it is primarily for the sake of culture, and not for the sake of politics in the narrower sense. The place of women in society and in marriage is one of the most important factors in cultural life and will remain so, as there is a far-reaching influence on the place women occupy in society and cultural life. Politics can exert both a restraining and a fertilizing influence on this. It is in this sense that we must understand the words of the Führer, which we advocate placing in this issue. What has gone wrong over decades cannot be straightened out in a few years. We will not be able to simply restore the degeneration of recent times. Even what has stood under Semitic influence for 1,000 years (through Christianity) cannot simply find its way back to its own nature and adapt to new times, creating new forms. Therefore, a new, living morality will only be able to emerge slowly; but when, like the Germanic morality, the place of women has perhaps become "a completely different one" after half a century, then a new, living morality will simultaneously come into fruition."

Source: Vormingsbladen der Germaansche-SS, Vijfde jaargang Nr. 2 Sprokkelmaand "TER INLEIDING." 1945 p.426

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HitlerJugend Solstice celebration - 1945

[ Footage: Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 747/1945]

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National Socialist Solstice festival at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin - 1939

[ Footage: Ufa-Tonwoche Nr. 460/1939 ]

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National Socialist Solstice festival at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin - 1938

[ Footage: Ufa-Tonwoche Nr. 408/1938 ]

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𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐒 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄?

"The SS is meant to be the shock troops of National Socialism. It can only be that if it forms a close-knit community.

1) All SS men must be intellectually and spiritually permeated by the one worldview of National Socialism. As a racial worldview, it is the guardian of the heritage of our ancestors. Therefore, the SS must consciously continue old customs, such as the solstice, or revive them in a new form.

2) Community requires shared, powerful experiences. The solstice celebrations are intended to be such an experience for the SS men. The blazing bonfire under the night sky creates the conditions for a quiet hour of reflection and remembrance of the dead and Germans abroad."

"The divine power of the sun had awakened new life, which was moving towards its ripening fulfillment. The Germanic farmers' joyful greeting at the solstice was directed to the sun, the giver of all life force. This fire was not a "sacrifice," not lit to appease the forces of Nature, not to protect people, animals, and fields from harm through "fire magic." No, this solar fire was an expression of the experience of the divine in the universe, in and around us. The custom of burning the solar fire was once a deeply religious act of our ancestors. The fire was considered by them to be the "image of the sun" (Edda) and thus became a symbol of the divine power active in the sun. And the fire greeting of the Germanic farmers was a sincere, not humble, greeting to their "faithful friend," the deity. These aspects of the Germanic solstice have been preserved in the customs of the German farmer to this day. Generally, we find the solstice fire more frequently than the winter solstice fire. But in many regions it is called "St. John's Fire," because the Church transferred the birthday of the biblical John to this ancient heathen holiday, which could not be eradicated, thus maintaining its solstice traditions in the same way it transferred Christmas, the birth of Jesus, to the day of Yule."

Source: BArch NS 2/21 RFSS, Chef des RuSHA an alle Rasse-Referenten und Schulungsleiter, Betr.: Sommersonnenwendfeier, 03.06.1935 p.28-30

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ϟϟ - 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐒

𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞.
"1. Now is the winter solstice in the longest night, Turning returns to turning, generation after generation. Now is the winter solstice, as the new year begins, life eternally wins us reborn.

2. Holy are the nights around the solstice, as our ancestors already knew. Holy are the nights, as the new year begins, life eternally wins us reborn.

3. Now is holy peace, the lights stand still, as the stars move in eternity. Now is holy peace, as the new year begins, life eternally wins us reborn."

𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧.
"1. Newborn light of the sun, The holy fire of our hearth, Once begun in Your womb, Has faithfully preserved Your countenance.

2. Life of our sturdy oaks, Life of our fertile land, Never shall Your growth depart, Where Your holy hearth fire burns.

3. High world tree of life, You promise us eternal green: Eternal life, Eternal goal of all our doing.

4. Outside over our lands Lies the peace of the night. Inside our hearth fire continues to burn, Beside it a people keeps watch!"

Source: Vormingsbladen der Germaansche-SS, No. 12 "Nu is Winterwende", "Nieuw geboren licht der zonne" (1942) p.378, p.381

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𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑 𝐒𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

"When we celebrate the Summer Solstice together here, we also wish to consider what this means to us. For we do not engage in sport for sport's sake alone, and we do not gather for this brief ceremony merely to hear a few fine words; rather, all of this has a deeper meaning for us, and the one is closely connected to the other. [...] It belongs to this worldview that we do not despise the body and do not unilaterally glorify the spirit. For us, body and spirit are not two things that stand separate and side by side, but we know that a healthy spirit requires a healthy body to function fully, and we also know that Bolshevism cannot be overcome by prayer, but only by men who are not only strong of will, but also strong of body. That is why the SS stands alongside sport. Why these martial arts games specifically today? It is an ancient custom among the Nordic race, throughout the centuries, to hold competitions and martial arts games at all ceremonies. Why? Because the people of this race take pleasure in the healthy and powerful body. For they have not despised the body, as the Semitic peoples and those who were set by the Semites did, but they saw in the healthy, well-formed, and noble man a kinship with the divine. [...] We know that all these conceptions among our ancestors are closely connected with the course of the sun and the eternal alternation of dying and being born. Therefore, they solemnly celebrated the high holidays of the year: the rebirth of the sun at midwinter and the day of the sun's highest position at midsummer. The same worldview lives within us, too; we too place action above all else; we too hold the hero in the highest esteem; and we too stand within this order of creation with the eternal alternation of birth and death. We too gather again on the high holidays of the year, light candles at Midwinter, and hold games at the Summer Solstice. And we know ourselves thereby connected to our distant ancestors. When we close the circle here, we know that the blood of a Nordic race flows through us; the blood of our furthest ancestors and the blood of our furthest descendants, provided we keep this blood pure and propagate it and defend it against the foreign powers surrounding it. We feel strong because the spirit of our forefathers lives within us and has been awakened. Awakened in the greatest need, now that our race stands before the great decision of standing firm or perishing. "

Source: Vormingsbladen der Germaansche-SS, 4e Jaargang 6, Zomermaand ZOMERZONNEWENDE TOESPRAAK BIJ DE EEDSAFLEGGING OP ZOMERZONNEWENDE 1943 (1944) p.185-186

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𝐒𝐒 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

"The solstice is a reflection on the great rhythm of Nature, which, in the cycle of the year as in human life, repeatedly fulfills the eternal law of death and rebirth, creating day from night and night from day, linking life and death and death and life in an endless chain, and thus serving the mysterious purpose of creation. The solstice—this is the quiet hour of introspection, in which one feels one's connection to the great cycle of eternal Nature."

"This is the secret of blood and race: millennia-old experiences flow within them, awakening new experiences and sharpening the inner sense for all the thousand sources from which the life and senses of our ancestors still speak to us today. That is why we once stood as young wanderers around the sun's fire, and why today Adolf Hitler's Hitler Youth light the bonfires on the mountaintops, which are symbols for us of the elevation of life, which blood and destiny have set before us as a task. This primal memory is the secret of the magic of those bright nights when the fading sunset and the glow of dawn merged: when the place of rising draws so close to that of setting that the summer sun's path appears like a high, festive gate, arched over the summer earth by the raised arms of the sun-hero. Among the images that originate from this primal experience, we still understand today the original and eternal meaning: the marriage of the creative power of the sun with the maternal forces of the earth, and, fatefully placed between the two, the consecration of the human community, which is inextricably linked by blood, spirit, and destiny."

"Furthermore, the SS performed the so-called SS Sun Play at the summer solstice celebration. In it, an attempt was made to give visible expression to our newfound faith and our confession of faith in the sun through dance. At all times when a faith is truly "believed" again, this manifests itself in the endeavor to unfold the spiritual content of the faith into life, that is, to "live" the faith, and beyond that, to find forms of community that ultimately culminate in the union of all the arts, in dances, in consecration and celebratory plays, and in which the entire believing community participates in some way. "

"This is the highest religion: to conquer or die for justice and truth. This is the highest religion: to love one's fatherland more than fathers and mothers, wives and children. This is the highest religion: to leave one's grandchildren an honest name, a free land, a proud spirit. This is the highest religion: to preserve with one's dearest blood what was won with one's dearest blood."

Source: BArch NS 31/158 Führer SS-OA Südwest, Sommer-Sonnenwende 1944, Stuttgart, 08.06.1944 p.49, p.50, p.53, p.63

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