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Ulma family beatified for heroic Christianity during WW2 [35]
@Ironside,
You're aware of course, that the Germans then WEREN'T (perhaps even aren't now) Christians!
Whereas the rest of Europe underwent a religious, if not always spiritual, transformation prior to the rise of the Protestant Church, in Germany, all outpouring of spiritual values such as "All men are created equal (...in the eyes of G-d)" or "Love thy neighbor as thyself" essentially withered on the vine of local authority and the sort of grassroots Christianity that developed in the UK, the US, France, Italy, Spain and so forth was never allowed to blossom. Such was replaced by a harsh paganism, harking back to the Germanic deities, all but absorbed through the pores of Wagner, later devoured by the a majority of Nazi supporters.
Instead of the sacred writings of the early Church Fathers (all of whom were Jews, by the way), Germans were subverted by the writings of Kant with his unwavering obedience to the Highest Will, therefore ignoring the existence of empathy, of questioning authority), later by the irrationalism of the Romantic Age, later, by the biology of racism. I'm vulgarly simplifying here, of course.
Thus Hitler was not as much of a stretch of the German imagination as one might think.
