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Word: wodanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Open Warfare | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ludendorff on Wodan | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ludendorff on Wodan | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ludendorff on Wodan | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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