2. Hitler's Henchmen and Nazi Sympathizers    The second digression will be briefer, as the selection of quotes from Hitler's top leaders as well as other lesser figures contains little of interest. As before, there are numerous references to God, but nothing of essential doctrines. There is a lot about "positive" or "German" Christianity.    There are also the usual lies one expects in Nazi rhetoric - Goering even claimed at the Nuremberg trials to be a Protestant, and the statement is repeated by Mr. Walker as a truthful one. As evidence Goering adduced that he had had marriage, christening, and burial carried out by the church in his house. Nowhere are those ceremonies mentioned as being part of Christianity in the entire New Testament. Moreover, Professor Conway relates an interesting fact about Goering's "Protestantism" - "Goering as head of the Luftwaffe, went even further and refused to admit any chaplains at all within the ranks for the Air Force" (p. 238). This is why in the "Nazi artifacts" section of his site Mr. Walker shows us an Army and a Navy chaplain's cap, but not an Air Force one.    Frankly, anyone who takes the testimony of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg at face value, as if they were upright men of integrity boldly standing for the truth, is deceived. There is also a lie from Baldur von Schirach, head of the Hitler Youth: "In no manner does the Hitler Youth restrict the religious activities of its members."    The comments assembled by Mr. Walker in this section also contain a number of statements that completely contradict biblical doctrines. Some of them are: "We seek God nowhere but in ourselves"..."Germany has been transformed into a great house of God"..."the church shall become a serving member of the state"..."What Christianity achieves is not dogma...but rather ethical principles"..."only through the mirror of our blood and our race are we able to see God as he must be seen"..."the one essential thing: our unity of blood, our German self, the homo Germanus"..."Adolf Hitler is the true holy Ghost"..."...he who serves Germany, serves God."    These and other statements are given as evidence that the Nazis were Christian! We are also told that Christ preached "struggle" (not forgiveness of sins and eternal life). He died fighting the Jews (nothing about a resurrection). The Nazi slogan "Public need before private greed" was "in the center" of Christ's teaching. "The highest law of life is struggle" [emphasis in the original]. Anyone who thinks this is Christianity should first learn what Christianity is before discussing it.    Other false teachings are the deification of Hitler. In the words of Heinrich Himmler, "you have a responsibility before God and Hitler." Himmler is also quoted as saying "I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats - against vermin." Jesus said the highest law was to love God with all of our heart, soul and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves.    Concerning Heinrich Himmler, there is another quote Mr. Walker did not include. Himmler said, expressing his objection to hunting for sport, "Nature is so wonderfully beautiful, and every animal has a right to live" [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0304358398/104-0661941-5650335?v=glance&n=283155][review of Himmler: Reichs Fuhrer-SS (Paperback) by Peter Padfield ]. This shows that animal rights activists are "just like Heinrich Himmler."    There are also some distortions of Mr. Walker's in this section. For example, we are informed of the death camp commandant Rudolf Hoess' Catholic upbringing. Nothing is said about the fact, cited earlier in this essay, that he explicitly rejected and turned away from Catholicism. The Nazi emphasis on religious education is referred to - it is not explained that Nazi religion was not of the Christian variety, but was a religion of blood, race, soil, and obedience to the Fuhrer.    There is one quote in the entire section that is useful, although not in the way intended. An SA publication (Der S.A. Mann) is quoted as saying that the Cross (capitalized in the original) did not represent the Lamb of God dying as a sacrifice for the sins of the world - rather, it represented "the doctrine of struggle." Thus, when we see pictures of a cross used on Nazi monuments, we may think it is a Christian symbol, but actually it is a Christian symbol that has been borrowed and given a different meaning. To the Nazis, a monument with a Cross on it represented struggle to the death, as Jesus, the bold Aryan warrior, struggled against Judaism unto death.    Finally, Mr. Walker contradicts himself and argues against his whole thesis by including the following quote: The German State School is a confessional school only in the sense [that it confesses (Walker's note)] the German state and the Volksgemeinschaft in the spirit of positive Christianity. The liberation of the German State school from the shackles of the Concordat is to be effected as soon as possible. This reflects the Nazi attitude toward the Concordat.