NAZI BLASPHEMY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1941, Page 7

NAZI BLASPHEMY

“MEIN KAMPF” TO REPLACE BIBLE

“NATIONAL REICH CHURCH.” WITH ABSOLUTE POWER OVER ALL OTHERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 28. A leaflet dealing with the establishment of a National Reich Church is now circulating throughout Germany, says “The Times” correspondent on the German frontier. The text of it is presumably identical with the document mentioned in President Roosevelt’s recent speech. It is not avowedly .sponsored by the State or the Nazi Party, but it will undoubtedly receive official recognition at the appropriate time.

The essential features of this manifesto are the establishment of a National Reich Church with absolute power over all churches throughout, the Reich. The Reich Church would serve exclusively, first, the nation as an ethical unit, and secondly the “Aryan race,” and pursuit of these aims would be conducted untiringly throughout the whole German Reich and its colonies.

All other churches and church-like bodies, especially those of an international character, would not bo tolerated in Germany. The manifesto demands that the Reich immediately confiscate all property belonging to all churches and confessions. The printing and sale of the Bible in Germany must cease immediately, and the importation of Bibles and other Christian literature must be ruthlessly prohibited. The manifesto proclaims “Mein Kampf” to be the greatest written document belonging to the German, people, “because this is hot only the greatest but also the purest ethical guide for the present-day life of our people.”