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...Troop; Windhorst League; Flock of the Cross; Peoples Union of Catholic Germany and Catholic Young Men's Association. With religious frenzy mounting, half-naked Nazis appeared in Berlin wearing strips of animal skins and ancient Teutonic horned caps. Loudly touting a return to the worship of Thor and Wodan they celebrated in a Berlin stadium the "Festival of the Swastika" (Nazi symbol), seemed to consider their acts religious. Sunday found banners with the pagan swastika or Hakenkreuz ("hooked cross") stuck up beside the cross of Christ in a majority of Berlin churches, though not in the provinces. Preaching from...
...cult of Wodan and the "Old Gods" of Germany supported by the General Erich Ludendorff, once an active Hitlerite, is of course a detestable heresy against God Almighty which every Catholic must resist. True, the Hitlerites of today are not Wodanites, but they are tainted with a suspicion of Wodanism in the ecclesiastic mind...
...disgruntled Prussian militarists of the Ludendorff school blame Germany's loss of the War on Christianity. They have started a cult of Wodan, the Teuton's remorseless God of War. Last week a sermon on Wodan was preached by General Erich von Ludendorff himself to a group of Wodanists assembled in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein...
...Charlemagne introduced Jewish Christianity into Germany," began the General with a baleful glare. "He destroyed the ancient Teutonic faith in Wodan. . . . Behind all our troubles lie Charlemagne and the Pope...
Socialism as well as Christianity is a Ludendorff bête noir. In reporting his "sermon" the great Berlin Socialist daily Vorwarts headlined: "Perfectly Silly!," declared it scandalous that a Missionary of Wodan is allowed to draw a general's pension from the Republic's Treasury...
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