Christianity in Hitler's Ideology

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-31495-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

How did Hitler's personal religious beliefs help to shape the development of National Socialism? Through close analysis of primary sources, Mikael Nilsson argues that Hitler's admiration of Jesus was central in both his public and private life, playing a key role throughout his entire political career. Christianity in Hitler's Ideology reexamines the roots of National Socialism, exploring how antisemitic forms of Christian nationalism de-Judaized Jesus and rendered him as an Aryan. In turn, the study analyses how Hitler's religious and ideological teachers such as Völkisch-Christian writers Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Dietrich Eckart weaponised these ideas. Nilsson challenges the established understanding that Hitler only used religion as a tool of propaganda. Instead, it is argued that religious faith and deeply held convictions were at the core of National Socialism, its racism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nilsson, Mikael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Christ on the crooked cross; Part I. Jesus as an Aryan, Anti-Semitic Warrior: 2. Hitler's religious teachers: Dietrich Eckart & Houston Stewart chamberlain; 3. Christ on the crooked cross; Part II. Did Hitler Believe that Jesus was Divine: 4. Hitler's Damascus Road experience: how Hitler modelled his political conversion narrative in Mein Kampf on the apostle Paul's religious conversion in acts 9; 5. Jesus as an ideological inspiration for Hitler and the NSDAP; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Nilsson, Mikael
Mikael Nilsson is an independent Swedish scholar and historian with research interests in Hitler, National Socialism, and Nazi Germany, along with the Cold War. His previous publications include Hitler Redux: The Incredible History of Hitler's So-Called Table Talks (2020).