I will now begin a series of quotes from Redles's
Hitler's Millennial Reich. Here, and more in the book itself, can be seen the development of an End Times eschatology that I will term
suprabiblical, as it seems based loosely upon the Christian Futurist schema, while taking some liberties in doing so. The Christian schema includes 12,000 of the tribe of Judah, along with the other eleven Hebrew tribes to sit around God, before the rest of all other humanity. The Nazis divided matters up as with the Aryans as being the new Chosen with the Jews to be removed or exterminated, the former an apparent euphemism for extermination. This would form the existential basis for the Nazi apocalyptic, "kill or be killed" in other words.
This last point is interestingly a different take from the Christian as the Christian view has no doubt as to the victory of Christ, his Elect, and the lesser faithful. One might argue that the Nazi schema is then more motivational than the Christian one, where the Christians only need accept Christ and let him do the dirty work (unless one wants to nudge him along that is).
From pg. 161 of
Hitler's Millennial Reich: Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation by David Redles
When Hitler and his closest associates (Eckart, Hess, Rosenberg, Feder, Streicher, and Hans Frank, all millennialists associated to some degree with the Thule Society) took over the renamed National Socialist German Worker’s Party, they believed that salvation could come about only through the extermination of the Jewish race. Hitler’s earliest known political statement, the Gemlich letter of 1919, associated Germany’s rebirth and salvation with the “total removal of the Jews from our midst.” As early as 1922, this “removal” of the Jews was taken to be but a step to eventual extermination. This is evident in the account of Josef Hell, who recalled Hitler stating that “if I one day actually come to power, then the extermination of the Jews will be my first and most important task.”3
Hitler, in a speech that same year, prophesied that the struggle between Aryans and Jews could end in “either victory of the Aryans or its annihilation and victory of the Jews.”4 As Julius Streicher’s most utilized catch-phrase puts it, there could be “no salvation without a solution to the Jewish Question.” And this salvation could come only with a “final” solution to that question. This early formulation of a coming final battle between Aryans and Jews, interpreted as the forces of light and good versus the forces of darkness and evil, was always conceived as resulting in the extermination of one side or the other. The Final Solution, even if the phrase had yet to be employed, was an eschatological conception from the beginning.
As I have discussed before, the whole notion of these ethnic 'Identities' is a definitional scam of the highest order, as is the very term '
gentile' itself, actually referring to 'class' and not ethnicity, hence the terms 'gentry' and 'gentlemen'.
From pg. 160:
‘The Final Solution of the Jewish Question’ in the National Socialist conception was not just another anti-Semitic undertaking, but a metahistorical program devised with an eschatological perspective. It was part of a salvational ideology that envisaged the attainment of Heaven by bringing Hell on earth.”1 The same can be said for the Nazi use of the terms Endkampf (Final Battle), Endsieg (Final Victory) and the conception of the Third Reich as the Endreich (Final Empire), the empire of millennial perfection that would come into being if, and only if, the eschatological struggle between Aryans and Jews reached a definitive conclusion. Nazi anti-Semitism was conceived, as Saul Friedländer has noted, as an essentially redemptive enterprise.2
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From the early 1920s, Hitler and his inner circle had conceived of the Nazi movement as one day creating a millennial Reich that was envisaged as a racially pure world empire led by the Nazis themselves. It was a world that could not be fully realized until a final battle against the demonic force of Jewish Bolshevism had been won, once and for all. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of postwar Munich, the Thule Society created the German Worker’s Party specifically to attract workers away from the communist movement (identified as Jewish Bolshevik). The loss of the war and the seemingly deliberate chaos that followed, combined with the wide release of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (which was itself received as an apocalyptic tract), all seemed to indicate that the Jews, the Nazi conception of the Evil Other, were making a final push at world domination.
As the book discusses, the Nazis (as do many others) associated the Jews with being the prime movers of the Bolshevik Revolution and its internationalist aspects. Of course, they also linked the Jews with being the prime movers of international banking. With the latter there is the issue that the Church and Euro-nobility had legally restricted Jews to just such occupational 'professions', to their cynical profit - including the use of them as 'scapegoats'. However, with the former both the Church hierarchy and their genetic kin, the monarchist 'gentiles', expressed their deepest pocketbook fears in the uprisings of the former country serfs turned city industrial workers. That Jews were involved in these efforts, one way or the other, only made it easy to deflect attention from the true concern. Such labor uprisings (from child labor, long hours, poor conditions, and low wages) would naturally morph into what became 'socialism'. As we have observed as well,
the elites employed their agent, Karl Marx, to muddy the waters, in the process taking the most extreme positions that rendered Communism.
From pg. 162:
The conspiratorial history presented in Dietrich Eckart’s 1924 work, Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin, with its apocalyptic rhetoric, biblical allusions, and talk of an imminent eschatological war of extermination, continued to appear in Nazi propaganda after the Nazi assumption of power. While the immediate postwar chaos of Weimar, combined with the growing threat of a Bolshevik-style revolution and the sudden appearance of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, seemed to mean that the eschatological turning point had arrived in the early 1920s, the prophesied war of extermination never occurred. The depression and the escalating tension between Nazis and communists during the elections of the early 1930s once again brought the specter of an imminent racial Armageddon to the forefront. For some minor Nazis, the initial successes of the Third Reich made the notion of a Final War less pertinent, but, for Hitler and his inner circle, the crucial time was now, for the Final War had to occur in their lifetimes.
Like the famous bolt of lightning revealing the 'shocking' existence of the Bavarian Illuminati, founded by a disillusioned Jesuit, the infamous
Protocols of the Elders of Zion appear in good time to fan the flames of fear. That the listed actions in the
Protocols seem to be being implemented should not distract us from considering that the true authorship may have come from the bowels of an organization that has employed the specter of the Jews in opposition to it from its foundations. That author appearing most likely to be another Jesuit priest. And one must then also contend with claims that the Jesuits have been infiltrated by those Jews lately and/or by its very founder, Ignatius Loyola. Or maybe Jesus himself?
As the excerpt above notes, minor Nazis could be tempted to discount the literalism of the apocalyptic language, and indeed many Jews living in Germany then discounted such as merely postering rhetoric, typical to their long relationship to Christians. Might we see a similar dynamic today with the orange dyed strongman (his grandfather from Bavaria), albeit he seems to be given the Jews a next step to getting their apocalypse enabling Temple on.
End of Part 1