Nazi were pagans not Christians. They were anti individualism (socialists indeed). Boy you have been fed to many lies.
"One of the greatest influences on the doctrines of Nazism were the new sciences of genetics and evolution as applied to the human species. As early as 1853, a paper titled Essay on the inequality of the Human Races was published in France by the biologist Joseph Arthur. In the 1860's, Charles Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton was the first to popularize the ideas of eugenics and "racial hygiene" which spread quickly throughout Europe and the United states. By the end of the century many eugenicists advocated measures for the protection of race such as forced sterilization of alcoholics, tuberculosis victims, syphilitics, bankrupts, and the mentally retarded, as well as financial bonuses for each child produced by "persons of worth." In the 1930's, the cover of a British eugenicist journal The Superman bore the image of the swastika.
In Germany, a biological justification for racial purity and white supremacy was popularized by the physician turned zoologist Ernst Haeckel. In 1862, Haeckel began to lecture throughout Germany on the Theory of Evolution which he believed to represent a new philosophy of mankind. He called this new philosophy Monism in order to distinguish it from the dualistic belief systems which separated humanity from nature and the animal kingdom. According to Haekel's philosophy, humans were highly developed animals which possessed no soul or divine sanction. Because the human race was simply a part of nature, human relationships, including the interactions of nations and states, were subject to the same laws of "survival of the fittest" that governed the development of biological organisms. Haeckel, like his philosophical predecessor Hegel, believed Germany to be a superior culture and that its survival was dependent on the maintenance of its individuality. To this end, he advocated the separation of humanity into separate groups according to variables such as color and intelligence. He theorized that the greatest racial differences existed between Germans and Africans, especially Bushmen and Pygmies. This belief reflected the illustrations found in many Victorian textbooks on evolution which showed the drawing of an ape, followed by one of a black African, and lastly, a well-groomed white male European.
Haeckel believed that free-will was detrimental to both nation and race, hence he advocated an education system which emphasized science, physical fitness and submission to group authority. The individual, according to Haeckel, was no more important than the single cell, thousands of which might be sacrificed daily for the survival of the organism. In 1906, Haeckel founded an organization called The Monist League whose membership included eugenicists, biologists, theologians, literary figures, politicians, and sociologists. In five years this organization listed over six thousand members in forty two cities in both Germany and Austria. Members of this league included the Nobel prize winning chemist William Ostwald, the Volkish anthropologist Otto Ammon who once declared that "Darwinism must become the new religion of Germany", Alexander Plotz who advocated a national board to screen all would-be parents, and Theodore Fritsch who proposed the building of selective-breeding communities. After the first world war, Fritsch became the ideological guide of a youth movement called Artamarzen after an alleged "Aryan" deity. Among the charter members of this organization were Rudolph Hess and Heinrich Himmler.
Ernst Haeckel was the first theorist to use the term Aryan in a racist context. In his day, the term had been utilized by linguists as the name for the theoretical root language for all Indo-European tongues. Haekel used these theories of language to strengthen his arguments by stating that the "Mongrelized" languages which had theoretically developed from "Aryan" paralleled the degeneration of a pure Caucasian race caused by inter-marriage' with non-Aryan peoples. (The actual Aryans were a collection of Indo-European tribes which invaded Northern India in the second Millennium BCE. The Indo-Europeans were known to have inter-married with the various peoples they encountered during their expansions well before the time of the "Aryan" invasions.). Haeckel's writings were the scientific inspiration for the spiritualized racism of Madame Blavatsky.
As many Europeans sought justification for their racial and political beliefs in science, so others looked to occult spirituality. Theosophy spread quickly throughout Europe in the 1890's and early 1900's along with many other occult philosophies. At the turn of the century Theosophical doctrines were combined with Volkish nationalism to form a new racist occultism called Ariosophy, whose origins can be traced to Austria in the years following German unification. Due to the political tensions of this period, including the effects of the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, the Germans living in the Austrian empire were excluded from the new Germany and were feeling alienated in an environment of growing Slavic influence. German cultural societies began to form in Austria, the largest of which was the Germanan Bund (German Federation) whose membership exceeded one hundred thousand. Activities in these societies, designed to promote cultural unity, included lectures on history and mythology, song festivals, and elaborate pageants celebrating various historical events. The first of the Great Ariosophists and a celebrity amongst these organizations was the Austrian mystic Guido Von List.
Guido Karl Anton List was a native of Vienna, born in 1848 and the son of a prosperous leather merchant. He originally worked in his family business while pursuing in his spare time an interest in mountaineering and local folklore. In the 1870's he began to pursue a career as a writer, first in mountaineering journals and later in several of the volkish newspapers which were becoming popular at the time. Over the next twenty years List expanded his talents to the writing of folklore anthologies, novels, poetry, and drama. His popularity among pan-German societies was cemented with the 1881 publication of his historical novel Carnuntum about the cultural struggle of native Germans against the Romans in the 4th century C.E.. In 1902 List underwent surgery for cataracts and spent eleven months in virtual blindness. It is during this period that he claimed to have received inspirational visions into the secrets of the pre-Christian Runic alphabet. List created an eighteen character Rune-row (called the Arman Futhark) based upon a collection of obscure spells found in the Eddic poem; Havamal . This alphabet was claimed by List to be the original runes of the ancient Germans despite contradictory archeological evidence. In 1903 he submitted his ideas to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, which rejected his manuscript without comment. Despite this setback however, his theories on runeology and the geomancy of Austrian landmarks (also based upon his own psychic impressions) were welcomed without question by the same Volkish nationalists among whom he was already famous. Between 1903 and 1907 he began to use the noble title of "von" in his name, probably as an attempt to appeal to a more aristocratic audience. In 1908, von List published his most famous work The Secret of the Runes, which outlined his theories which linked the runes and other pre-Christian Germanic symbols, including the swastika, to the designs of medieval architecture and heraldry.
The publication of von List's "Secrets" led to the founding of two occult organizations; the Guido von List Society devoted to historical research, and the Arman Order which explored both magick and ritual. Von List's occultism was a mixture of Germanic revivalism, Blavatsky's Theosophy, and the Hermetic Arts. According to List, the magick and wisdom and magick of the Germanic god Wotan's cult was preserved by a class of priest kings called the Arman who became a secret underground movement after Europe's conversion to Christianity. The secrets of the Arman continued to exist in the various medieval chivalric orders (including the Knights Templar), the royal and noble houses of Europe, in alchemy, the secret societies of Rosecrucianism and Free Masonry, and in Cabalalism which he believed that the Jews had corrupted. Von List believed that the Arman possessed inherent psychic and magickal abilities which could be revived in their descendants who existed in the royal and noble families of Germanic ancestry, especially the Habsburgs whom he prophesied would someday rule over a renewed Germanic Empire. Before his death in 1919, Von List wrote that the great world war was the final chaos to take place before the rise of a new Germanic millennium. |
