n 1928, adolf hitler said: "we tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of christianity. our movement is christian." and the founder of christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the jewish people. when he found it necessary, he drove those enemies of the human race out of the temple of god; because then, as always, they used religion as a means of advancing their commercial interests. but at that time christ was nailed to the cross for his attitude towards the jews; whereas our modern christians enter into party politics and when elections are being held they debase themselves to beg for jewish votes. they even enter into political intrigues with the atheistic jewish parties against the interests of their own christian nation. - adolf hitler, mein kampf, vol. 1 chapter 11  my feelings as a christian points me to my lord and savior as a fighter. it points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, god's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. in boundless love as a christian and as a man i read through the passage which tells us how the lord at last rose in his might and seized the scourge to drive out of the temple the brood of vipers and adders. ...today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion i recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that he had to shed his blood upon the cross. ... - adolf hitler, speech on april 12, 1922
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