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Christians Rewrite the HolocaustBy Bruce Wilson

February 1, 2010

A Horrific Historical Inversion

Who killed Europes Jews? Millions on the American evangelical right have grown up believing the

culprits were liberals and leftists, homosexuals, evolutionists and atheists, occult worshipers and

even Jews themselves. Enter Beck, stage right.

Broadcast on Fox, based on Jonah Golbergs polemical bookLiberal Fascism, Glenn Becks new

one-hour documentaryRevolutionary Holocaust argues Hitler and Nazism were liberal/leftphenomena, with the following crackpot syllogism: Hitler killed millions, Stalin killed millions, Mao

killed millions, ergo Nazism was an offshoot of communism. Illogical ? Historically incoherent? Yes,

but it doesnt have to make sense. Beck knows his audience.

Revolutionary Holocaustresonates with Fox viewers because it presents a secularized version of a

religious narrative, developing for decades on the evangelical right, now deeply entrenched, which

features a horrific historical inversion casting victims of Nazi persecution as themselves the

perpetrators.

What?

Merging Narratives: John Birch meets the Antichrist

Far-right anticommunist conspiracy theories such as those promoted by the John Birch Societyhave

merged with evangelical end-time narratives. Declassified files on evangelist, Christian Crusade

founder, and noted anticommunist Billy James Hargis, under FBI surveillance because he was

considered dangerously far right, show that early in the 1960s the fusion was already underway -

under the rubric of fighting communism, apocalyptic end-time Christians and John Birch Society

members were attending the same meetings and voicing the same concerns.

In classic Bircher conspiracy theory, which is considered secular, a sinister cabal of bankers,

internationalists, and politicians cede US sovereignty to the United Nations, enslaving the masses

under the iron heel of a socialist, totalitarian New World Order. That paranoid world view fit neatly

with evangelical narratives forecasting that in the end time there will arise an Antichrist figure who

will establish, in the name of peace, a brutal one-world government which will persecute Christians.

Both narratives often place Jewish financiers near the center of the grand conspiracy.

A Stranger Brings Young Rosenberg a Strange Book

Theres historical precedent. As historian Konrad Heiden, who in the 1920s as a university student

opposed Adolf Hitler and fled to America before the war, described in his 1944 bookDer Fuehrer,Hitlers Rise To Power, One day in the summer of 1917 a student was reading in his room in

Moscow. A stranger entered, laid a book on the table, and silently vanished.

The student ? Alfred Rosenberg, later Hitlers chief ideologist. The book ? The Great within the

Small and Antichrist, an Imminent Political Possibility. Notes of an Orthodox Believer, by Russian

Orthodox priest Sergei Nilus, published in 1905.

Nilus book contained what is believed to be the first full length printed version ofThe Protocols of

the Elders of Zion, a propaganda hoax outlining an alleged Jewish plot for world domination.

Written from a secular perspective, The Protocols were the last chapter of the book, which told an

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Articles Authors Recognized for publicizing Christians United For

Israel founder John Hagees now notorious God sent Hitler

assertion - which led 2008 presidential candidate John McCain to

renounce Hagees political endorsement - Bruce Wilson is

co-founder of the religion and politics website Talk To Action. He

studies and writes on the Christian supremacy movement. Bruce

Wilson Christians Rewrite the Holocaust A Horrific Historical

Inversion Who killed Europes Jews? Millions on the American

evangelical right have grown up believing the culprits were liberals

and leftists, homosexuals, evolutionists and atheists, occult

worshipers and even Jews themselves. Enter Beck, stage right.

Broadcast on Fox, based on Jonah Golbergs polemical book Liberal

Fascism, Glenn Becks new one-hour documentary Revolutionary

Holocaust argues Hitler and Nazism were liberal/left phenomena,

with the following crackpot syllogism: Hitler killed millions, Stalin

killed millions, Mao killed millions, ergo Nazism was an offshoot of

communism. Illogical ? Historically incoherent? Yes, but it doesnt

have to make sense. Beck knows his audience. Revolutionary

Holocaust resonates with Fox viewers because it presents a

secularized version of a religious narrative, developing for decades

on the evangelical right, now deeply entrenched, which features a

horrific historical inversion casting victims of Nazi persecution as

themselves the perpetrators. What? Merging Narratives: John Birch

meets the Antichrist Far-right anticommunist conspiracy theories

such as those promoted by the John Birch Society have merged with

evangelical end-time narratives. Declassified files on evangelist,

Christian Crusade founder, and noted anticommunist Billy James

Hargis, under FBI surveillance because he was considered

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explicitly religious narrative forecasting the imminent rise of a tyrannical Antichrist figure who

would rule the world. As the Bolshevik wave rolled over Russia, persecuting Christians and Jews

alike, Rosenberg fled the country taking Sergei Nilus book, and The Protocols, westward towards

Germany.

Taxpayers Are The Jews For Obamas Ovens?

To understand the merger of Protocols-like anti-Jewish conspiracy theory with apocalyptic,

end-time Antichrist narratives, in America, is to understand seemingly anomalous, jarringphenomenon such as abanner, held up at a November 5, 2009 anti-health care reform rally on

Capitol Hill with GOP leaders in attendance, that read, [National Socialist Health Care: Dachau

Germany, 1945. The words were superimposed over a photograph of heaped corpses at Dachau.

The ADL called on Republican Party leaders to condemn forcefully the invocation of Holocaust

imagery. But at a Kingston, New York Tea Party protest event held April 15, 2009 we find a

protester holding up a sign which on one side read, Barack Hussein Obama: The New Face of

Hitler and on the other side declared, The American Taxpayers Are The Jews For Obamas Ovens.

This makes more sense in light of a statement Pat Robertson made in a 1988 interview with

journalist Molly Ivins, in which he stated, Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal

America is now doing to the evangelical Christians It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-

controlled media, and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Robertson went on to

declare that Christians were suffering persecution [m]ore terrible than anything suffered by any

minority in our history.

In 1990 Robertson, responding to criticism from theMiami Heraldfor his involvement in the

Florida governors race, vented Do you also have a ghetto chosen to herd the pro-life Catholics and

evangelicals into ? Have you designed the appropriate yellow patch that Christians should wear ?

Hagees Christian Kristallnacht

Robertsons views were no aberration. A video version of theLeft Behindseries narrative first

released in 2001 by John Hagee Ministries, titled Vanished - In the twinkling of an eye, portrays

born-again Christians suffering their own Kristallnacht in which gays, Jews, and Catholics, led by

the Antichrist, attack born-again Christians and set their churches ablaze. One burning church is

identified as being in Berlin.

Some narratives recasting Christians as the future persecuted Jews are even more explicit.

Jim Ammerman is a retired Colonel who runs a chaplain endorsing agency controlling roughly 6-8

percent of the active duty chaplains in the US armed forces. In the late 1990s Ammerman made a

series of barnstorming tours under the auspices of a Topeka, Kansas ministry called the Prophecy

Club, which serves as a clearing house for evangelical conspiracy theory, giving talks in cities across

America that were recorded and broadcast over radio and TV media networks which could in theory

reach up to 10% of the nation.

In his presentations Ammerman claimed that Bill and Hillary Clinton were part of a satanic New

World Order conspiracy controlled by the Rothschild banking family. Bill Clinton had signed control

of the US over to the head of the United Nations. At any moment foreign troops hidden on US

military bases and in national forests could seize control and pack Christians into specially prepared

boxcars that would take them to FEMA concentration camps, equipped with poison gas, for mass

killing.

American Dolchstoss?

Such conspiracy theories, claiming America has been betrayed by liberal and Jewish elites, havedeep traction. In a 2006 series of speeches conservative Baptist scholar David P. Gushee noted with

concern that narratives of cultural complaint and despair now common on the evangelical right

share much in common with similar narratives that flourished in pre-fascist and pre-World War

Two Germany. The Dolchstolegende, the stab in the back myth, blamed the German loss in

World War One on a Jewish conspiracy, and related narratives blamed Jews as well for crime,

economic hardship and alleged immorality. In his lectures Gushee warned,

Conservative American evangelicals in recent decades have been deeply attracted to a parallel

narrative of cultural despair While very few conservative evangelicals come into the vicinity of

Hitler in hatefulness, elements similar to that kind of conservative-reactionary-nationalist narrative

can be found in some Christian right-rhetoric: anger at those who are causing American moral

dangerously far right, show that early in the 1960s the fusion was

already underway - under the rubric of fighting communism,

apocalyptic end-time Christians and John Birch Society members

were attending the same meetings and voicing the same concerns.

In classic Bircher conspiracy theory, which is considered secular, a

sinister cabal of bankers, internationalists, and politicians cede US

sovereignty to the United Nations, enslaving the masses under the

iron heel of a socialist, totalitarian New World Order. That paranoid

world view fit neatly with evangelical narratives forecasting that in

the end time there will arise an Antichrist figure who will establish, in

the name of peace, a brutal one-world government which will

persecute Christians. Both narratives often place Jewish financiers

near the center of the grand conspiracy. A Stranger Brings Young

Rosenberg a Strange Book Theres historical precedent. As historian

Konrad Heiden, who in the 1920s as a university student opposed

Adolf Hitler and fled to America before the war, described in his 1944

book Der Fuehrer, Hitlers Rise To Power, One day in the summer of

1917 a student was reading in his room in Moscow. A stranger

entered, laid a book on the table, and silently vanished. The student

? Alfred Rosenberg, later Hitlers chief ideologist. The book ? The

Great within the Small and Antichrist, an Imminent Political

Possibility. Notes of an Orthodox Believer, by Russian Orthodox

priest Sergei Nilus, published in 1905. Nilus book contained what is

believed to be the first full length printed version of The Protocols of

the Elders of Zion, a propaganda hoax outlining an alleged Jewish

plot for world domination. Written from a secular perspective, The

Protocols were the last chapter of the book, which told an explicitly

religious narrative forecasting the imminent rise of a tyrannical

Antichrist figure who would rule the world. As the Bolshevik waverolled over Russia, persecuting Christians and Jews alike,

Rosenberg fled the country taking Sergei Nilus book, and The

Protocols, westward towards Germany. Taxpayers Are The Jews For

Obamas Ovens? To understand the merger of Protocols-like

anti-Jewish conspiracy theory with apocalyptic, end-time Antichrist

narratives, in America, is to understand seemingly anomalous,

jarring phenomenon such as a banner, held up at a November 5,

2009 anti-health care reform rally on Capitol Hill with GOP leaders in

attendance, that read, [National Socialist Health Care: Dachau

Germany, 1945. The words were superimposed over a photograph

of heaped corpses at Dachau. The ADL called on Republican Party

leaders to condemn forcefully the invocation of Holocaust imagery.

But at a Kingston, New York Tea Party protest event held April 15,

2009 we find a protester holding up a sign which on one side read,

Barack Hussein Obama: The New Face of Hitler and on the other

side declared, The American Taxpayers Are The Jews For Obamas

Ovens. This makes more sense in light of a statement Pat

Robertson made in a 1988 interview with journalist Molly Ivins, in

which he stated, Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, soliberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians It is the

Democratic Congress, the liberal-controlled media, and the

homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Robertson went

on to declare that Christians were suffering persecution [m]ore

terrible than anything suffered by any minority in our history. In 1990

Robertson, responding to criticism from the Miami Herald for his

involvement in the Florida governors race, vented Do you also have

a ghetto chosen to herd the pro-life Catholics and evangelicals into ?

Have you designed the appropriate yellow patch that Christians

should wear ? Hagees Christian Kristallnacht Robertsons views

were no aberration. A video version of the Left Behind series

narrative first released in 2001 by John Hagee Ministries, titled

Vanished - In the twinkling of an eye, portrays born-again

Christians suffering their own Kristallnacht in which gays, Jews,

and Catholics, led by the Antichrist, attack born-again Christians and

set their churches ablaze. One burning church is identified as being

in Berlin. Some narratives recasting Christians as the future

persecuted Jews are even more explicit. Jim Ammerman is a

retired Colonel who runs a chaplain endorsing agency controlling

roughly 6-8 percent of the active duty chaplains in the US armed

forces. In the late 1990s Ammerman made a series of barnstorming

tours under the auspices of a Topeka, Kansas ministry called the

Prophecy Club, which serves as a clearing house for evangelical

conspiracy theory, giving talks in cities across America that were

recorded and broadcast over radio and TV media networks which

could in theory reach up to 10% of the nation. In his presentations

Ammerman claimed that Bill and Hillary Clinton were part of a

satanic New World Order conspiracy controlled by the Rothschild

banking family. Bill Clinton had signed control of the US over to the

head of the United Nations. At any moment foreign troops hidden on

US military bases and in national forests could seize control and

pack Christians into specially prepared boxcars that would take them

to FEMA concentration camps, equipped with poison gas, for mass


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decline, fear about the future, hatred of the secularists now preeminent in American life, and the

search for scapegoats.

Mainstreamed in 1991 by Pat RobertsonsNew York Times bestseller list bookThe New World

Order, an increasingly common conspiracy trope among evangelicals holds that Jewish bankers

control the US and even the world economy. Christians United For Israel founder John Hagee has

promoted that idea, naming Rothschilds as culprits in a best selling book.

In March 2003 sermon broadcast over evangelical networks reaching around the globe, pastor JohnHagee gave a sermon in which he advanced his conspiracy theory, almost identical to perhaps Adolf

Hitlers favorite - that an international Jewish banking cabal, led by the The Rothschild banking

family, controls the fates of entire nation, even the progression of world events and history, through

the manipulation of global money markets.

Good Jews, Bad Jews

So, how can Hagee possibly profess his love for Jews ? A recently released segment of the Nixon

Tapes, from a February 23, 1973 phone conversation between famed Evangelist Billy Graham and

President Richard Nixon, suggests an answer. Graham, the most famous evangelist of his day,

remarks to Nixon, I told you one time that the Bible talks about two kinds of Jews. One is called

`the synagogue of Satan. Theyre the ones putting out the pornographic literature, theyre the ones

putting out these obscene films. Shortly after in the conversation, Nixon declares, its a disgraceful

thing, and I think, I think really they dont deserve to live.

Earlier in the conversation Nixon had stated that American Jews were going to get the darnedest

wave of anti-Semitism here if they dont behave. The imperative for good Jews in the evangelical

narrative is still to behave, and in a July 26, 2006 interview with the San Antonio Times, pastor

John Hagee pointedly demarcated good Jews from bad Jews,

I think if I could put a dividing line, the Orthodox and Conservatives who have a Torah

appreciation give us wholehearted support. The rest who are not driven by the Word of God have a

liberal agenda.

And the liberal agenda is they are pro-abortion. Theyre pro-homosexual. Theyre pro-gay marriage

they want men to marry men and women to marry women and their difference with me is not

really what Im doing with Israel. Their hostility to me is poisoned by their liberalism.

But in Hagees 2006 bookJerusalem Countdown, in a subchapter entitled Who is a Jew ? he

espouses a much starker theory,

Esaus descendants would produce a lineage that would attack and slaughter the Jews for centuries.

Esaus descendants included Haman, whose diabolical mind conceived the final solution of the

Old Testamentthe extermination of all Jews living in Persia. It was Esaus descendants who

produced the half-breed Jews of history who have persecuted and murdered the Jews beyond

human comprehension.

Adolf Hitler was a distant descendant of Esau

Gay Nazis on Parade

In effect, John Hagee had suggested the Holocaust was an in-house affair, Jews persecuting Jews.

The vilification does not stop there. In a March 16, 2003 sermon he declared that the coming

Antichrist, who would make Hitler look like a choirboy, would be a blasphemer and a

homosexual and is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx.

Its considered highly unlikely Hitler was partially Jewish and though Marxs parents were Jewish

Karl Marx was raised a Lutheran and was a virulent anti-Semite.

While John Hagee doesnt further develop that gay Nazi theme, evangelical Christian Scott Livelys

bookThe Pink Swastika claims Hitler and top Nazi leadership were heavily homosexual, in effect

depicting the Holocaust as a product of gay psychopathology. Lively co-founded an antigay ministry,

Watchman On The Walls, which has been identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law

Center. Lively has been accused of helping incite antigay hatreds in Uganda, where a bill that would

mandate execution, by hanging, for some HIV positive citizens is currently before Ugandas

parliament.

In 2005 Rabbi Eric Yoffie, leader of the largest branch of American Judaism, attacked the antigay

policies of the religious right, cautioning a synagogue audience of over 5,000, [w]e cannot forget

killing. American Dolchstoss? Such conspiracy theories, claiming

America has been betrayed by liberal and Jewish elites, have deep

traction. In a 2006 series of speeches conservative Baptist scholar

David P. Gushee noted with concern that narratives of cultural

complaint and despair now common on the evangelical right share

much in common with similar narratives that flourished in pre-fascist

and pre-World War Two Germany. The Dolchstolegende, the stab

in the back myth, blamed the German loss in World War One on a

Jewish conspiracy, and related narratives blamed Jews as well for

crime, economic hardship and alleged immorality. In his lectures

Gushee warned, Conservative American evangelicals in recent

decades have been deeply attracted to a parallel narrative of cultural

despair While very few conservative evangelicals come into the

vicinity of Hitler in hatefulness, elements similar to that kind of

conservative-reactionary-nationalist narrative can be found in some

Christian right-rhetoric: anger at those who are causing American

moral decline, fear about the future, hatred of the secularists now

preeminent in American life, and the search for scapegoats.

Mainstreamed in 1991 by Pat Robertsons New York Times

bestseller list book The New World Order, an increasingly common

conspiracy trope among evangelicals holds that Jewish bankers

control the US and even the world economy. Christians United For

Israel founder John Hagee has promoted that idea, naming

Rothschilds as culprits in a best selling book. In March 2003 sermon

broadcast over evangelical networks reaching around the globe,

pastor John Hagee gave a sermon in which he advanced his

conspiracy theory, almost identical to perhaps Adolf Hitlers favorite -

that an international Jewish banking cabal, led by the The Rothschild

banking family, controls the fates of entire nation, even theprogression of world events and history, through the manipulation of

global money markets. Good Jews, Bad Jews So, how can Hagee

possibly profess his love for Jews ? A recently released segment of

the Nixon Tapes, from a February 23, 1973 phone conversation

between famed Evangelist Billy Graham and President Richard

Nixon, suggests an answer. Graham, the most famous evangelist of

his day, remarks to Nixon, I told you one time that the Bible talks

about two kinds of Jews. One is called the synagogue of Satan.

Theyre the ones putting out the pornographic literature, theyre the

ones putting out these obscene films. Shortly after in the

conversation, Nixon declares, its a disgraceful thing, and I think, I

think really they dont deserve to live. Earlier in the conversation

Nixon had stated that American Jews were going to get the

darnedest wave of anti-Semitism here if they dont behave. The

imperative for good Jews in the evangelical narrative is still to

behave, and in a July 26, 2006 interview with the San Antonio

Times, pastor John Hagee pointedly demarcated good Jews from

bad Jews, I think if I could put a dividing line, the Orthodox and

Conservatives who have a Torah appreciation give us wholeheartedsupport. The rest who are not driven by the Word of God have a

liberal agenda. And the liberal agenda is they are pro-abortion.

Theyre pro-homosexual. Theyre pro-gay marriage they want men

to marry men and women to marry women and their difference

with me is not really what Im doing with Israel. Their hostility to me

is poisoned by their liberalism. But in Hagees 2006 book Jerusalem

Countdown, in a subchapter entitled Who is a Jew ? he espouses a

much starker theory, Esaus descendants would produce a lineage

that would attack and slaughter the Jews for centuries. Esaus

descendants included Haman, whose diabolical mind conceived the

final solution of the Old Testamentthe extermination of all Jews

living in Persia. It was Esaus descendants who produced the

half-breed Jews of history who have persecuted and murdered the

Jews beyond human comprehension. Adolf Hitler was a distant

descendant of Esau Gay Nazis on Parade In effect, John Hagee

had suggested the Holocaust was an in-house affair, Jews

persecuting Jews. The vilification does not stop there. In a March 16,

2003 sermon he declared that the coming Antichrist, who would

make Hitler look like a choirboy, would be a blasphemer and a

homosexual and is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was

Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx. Its considered highly unlikely Hitler

was partially Jewish and though Marxs parents were Jewish Karl

Marx was raised a Lutheran and was a virulent anti-Semite. While

John Hagee doesnt further develop that gay Nazi theme,

evangelical Christian Scott Livelys book The Pink Swastika claims

Hitler and top Nazi leadership were heavily homosexual, in effect

depicting the Holocaust as a product of gay psychopathology. Lively

co-founded an antigay ministry, Watchman On The Walls, which has

been identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Lively has been accused of helping incite antigay hatreds in Uganda,

where a bill that would mandate execution, by hanging, for some HIV

positive citizens is currently before Ugandas parliament. In 2005

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, leader of the largest branch of American Judaism,


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Christian theological vilification of Jews has a long history, and Robert P. Ericksons landmark 1987

bookTheologians Under Hitler, also a documentaryby the same name from Steve D. Martin, has

sparked a broad reassessment of the role that Protestant Christianity played in welcoming the rise of

the Nazis and German anti-Semitism, and in enthusiastically supporting Hitler.

The Deutsche Christen, or German Christians, enthusiastically displayed the Nazi flag in their

churches. Gerhard Kittel, one of the most prominent German theologians of his age, wrote what

served as a theological justification for the Nuremberg Laws. The razors edge between life and death

for Germans during the Third Reich was determined by baptismal certificates, legally mandated for

all Germans to carry at all times, written by Christian pastors, attesting to proper racial heritage.

We Mean You No Harm

Across the Atlantic during the early 20th Century, anti-Semitic currents had been rising. Created

from a compilation of writings from Henry Fords Dearborn Independent, The International Jew

was a tract series that mirrored the anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative of the Protocols of the Elders of

Zion. Ford financed mass printing, in Germany, of German language copies of the tracts. After the

war, during the Nuremberg Trials, former Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach testified that

Fords International Jew had played a key role in shaping Schirachs political views.

Even though Henry Ford accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Hitlers Nazi

government in 1938, Ford did not believe himself to be an anti-Semite. He regularly gifted new

Model T automobiles to a rabbi who lived in Fords former neighborhood. For Henry Ford, there

were good Jews and bad Jews.

As today, the early 20th Century was a period when Christian Restorationism, what we might today

identify as Christian Zionism, was popular. The following quote is from that period,

Every Jew ought to know also that in every Christian church where the ancient prophecies are

received and studied, there is a great revival of interest in the future of the Ancient People. It is not

forgotten that certain promises were made to them regarding their position in the world, and and it

is held that these prophesies will be fulfilled. The future of the Jew, as prophetically outlined, is

intimately bound up with the future of this planet, and the Christian church in large partat least by

the evangelical wing, which most Jews condemnsees a Restoration of the Chosen People yet to

come. If the mass of Jews knew how understandingly and sympathetically all the prophecies willfind fulfillment and that they will result in great Jewish service to society at large, they would

probably regard the church with another mind.

The quote, above, is from Henry Fords The International Jew.

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133 weeks ago

I dont know what I believe to be true anymore all I know is there is a creator and he wants us to be good

to one another and not to hate one another at all hatred is a sin of all time as is pride

17 weeks ago

Your response is pretty general and could be tacked onto any article, anywhere, but this makes me

curious: "all I know is there is a creator". How do you know this? It isn't something I can take on faith but I

can be convinced -- convince me!

17 weeks ago

This whole article is TOTAL BULLSHIT!

attacked the antigay policies of the religious right, cautioning a

synagogue audience of over 5,000, [w]e cannot forget that when

Hitler came to power in 1933, one of the first things that he did was

ban gay organizations. Deutsche Christen Christian theological

vilification of Jews has a long history, and Robert P. Ericksons

landmark 1987 book Theologians Under Hitler, also a documentary

by the same name from Steve D. Martin, has sparked a broad

reassessment of the role that Protestant Christianity played in

welcoming the rise of the Nazis and German anti-Semitism, and in

enthusiastically supporting Hitler. The Deutsche Christen, or

German Christians, enthusiastically displayed the Nazi flag in their

churches. Gerhard Kittel, one of the most prominent German

theologians of his age, wrote what served as a theological

justification for the Nuremberg Laws. The razors edge between life

and death for Germans during the Third Reich was determined by

baptismal certificates, legally mandated for all Germans to carry at

all times, written by Christian pastors, attesting to proper racial

heritage. We Mean You No Harm Across the Atlantic during the early

20th Century, anti-Semitic currents had been rising. Created from a

compilation of writings from Henry Fords Dearborn Independent,

The International Jew was a tract series that mirrored the

anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative of the Protocols of the Elders of

Zion. Ford financed mass printing, in Germany, of German language

copies of the tracts. After the war, during the Nuremberg Trials,

former Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach testified that Fords

International Jew had played a key role in shaping Schirachs

political views. Even though Henry Ford accepted the Grand Cross

of the German Eagle from Hitlers Nazi government in 1938, Ford did

not believe himself to be an anti-Semite. He regularly gifted newModel T automobiles to a rabbi who lived in Fords former

neighborhood. For Henry Ford, there were good Jews and bad

Jews. As today, the early 20th Century was a period when Christian

Restorationism, what we might today identify as Christian Zionism,

was popular. The following quote is from that period, Every Jew

ought to know also that in every Christian church where the ancient

prophecies are received and studied, there is a great revival of

interest in the future of the Ancient People. It is not forgotten that

certain promises were made to them regarding their position in the

world, and and it is held that these prophesies will be fulfilled. The

future of the Jew, as prophetically outlined, is intimately bound up

with the future of this planet, and the Christian church in large

partat least by the evangelical wing, which most Jews

condemnsees a Restoration of the Chosen People yet to come. If

the mass of Jews knew how understandingly and sympathetically all

the prophecies will find fulfillment and that they will result in great

Jewish service to society at large, they would probably regard the

church with another mind. The quote, above, is from Henry Fords

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