THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

many groups, some of them fervent NAers offering the same package to naive Christians, for
the same purpose.]
Hitler's vision of returning to "pure" pagan religion was echoed, or more accurately
anticipated, by psychoanalyst Carl Jung in 1923: "We [Germans] need new foundations. We
must dig down to the primitive in us, for only out of the conflict between civilized man and
the Germanic barbarian will there come what we need: a new experience of God." (Sklar,
p.134) When esotericist Jakov Wilhelm Hauer founded the Nordic Faith movment, Jung
urged participation on the part of Germans who were "intelligent enough not only to believe
but to know that the god of the Germans is Wotan and not the Christian God." ("Wotan",
essay by Jung - emphasis his, quoted by Sklar, p.134) The Nazis reciprocated by making
Jung President of the German Medical Society for Psychotherapy in 1933, at which time he
finally found a forum from which to expound a belief he had held since 1918: the need to
distinguish between "German" and "Jewish" psychology. (The Society's Dec. 1933 issue) In
his view, such a distinction was not antisemitic, it was liberating for both Aryans and Jews.
(Sklar 136-137) When the Jews were fleeing Nazi Germany in ever-increasing numbers, Jung
advised his followers in England to keep up their "negative feelings" about Jews and resist
allowing them to participate as colleagues, as he also did. [See further details about Jung in
Harvard Professor Richard Noll's books.] As for the destruction being wreaked by the Nazis,
Noll notes that Jung viewed them as the necessary precursors to the great "light", those whose
task was to destroy to make "rebirth" possible. [Compare with Bailey's assessment below.] It
took until 1945 for Jung to finally denounce the Nazi extermination of the Jews, but he never
retracted his proposal for a "Germanic, Jew-free psychotherapy". (Sklar, p.138-139)
To remove the "bad seeds" of Christian (that is, Jewish) thinking, Nazi preparation of children
for the new humanity would be diligent from cradle to grave, centered around the notion that
they were born to die for their god, wmbodied in their Fuehrer. The education began with
revised fairy tales teaching new-humanity principles of heroes struggling and dying to set
their race free. Then group membership started at age 10, followed by continuous
reinforcement in group settings for the remainder of their lives, "so that they shall in no case
suffer a relapse, and they don't feel free again as long as they live," as Hitler bluntly put it.
(Sklar, p.110) There was non-stop activity which required passive participation, allowing no
time for reflection or discussion.
And what did Christian leaders think of Hitler? Although many Christians eventually bought
into "positive Christianity", apparently there was enough opposition to necessitate an early
purge of that community. Before launching his "final solution", Hitler made an effort to
remove all churches and pastors who showed the least resistance to policies already in
operation. For example, refusal by a church to sponsor a Hitler Youth chapter was sufficient
grounds to close it down. Leaders whose integrity would not yield to political expediency,
who could not be discredited by scandal, and who had the potential to influence Christians at
large, were imprisoned indefinitely (Dietrich Bonnhoefer for example). Although Hitler did
not close down many Catholic churches, especially where local support was strong, he vented
his rage on Pope Pius XI, who had issued an encyclical condemning him as "a mad prophet
possessed of repulsive arrogance" ("Mit Brennender Sorg", March 14, 1937).
2a. Hitler and the Pope
This Catholic leader and his successor, Pius XII, have long been the subject of controversy for
their publicly ambivalent statements regarding the Jewish genocide taking place in their times.
However, in the eyes of the Third Reich, Pius XI had already gone too far with his encyclical,
and Nazi General Ludendorf was convinced that Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, then the Vatican