"[I]n Nazi Germany... General Erich von Ludendorff9 exclaimed "I reject Christianity because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth." Oswald Spengler... speaks of "Catholic Bolshevism more dangerous than the anti-Christian" and argues that "all communist systems in the West are in fact derived from Christian theological thought."10 Alfred Rosenberg felt that "both the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Confessional Church, as they exist at present, must vanish from the life of our people."11"
— Fascism in Action

January 1, 1970

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Ref: 9) Erich von Ludendorff, Deutscher Gottglaube. Rolf Tell, Sound and Fuehrer, London, 1939, p. 173. 10) Oswald Spengler. Jahre der Entscheidling. Deutschland and die weltgeschichtliche Entwicklung, Munich, 1933, p. 128-9. 11) Alfred Rosenberg in private speech at the Discussion on German Culture, Nuremberg Party Congress, 1938. Catholic Church. The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich, Facts and Documents, London, 1940, p. 277.