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peoples who imposed their beliefs on the Germans by force. Imbued
with these principles, young people in different parts of the
country took it upon themselves to clear the public places of the
crucifix, the symbol of Christianity. They went so far as to destroy
very ancient Calvaries, taking no account of the artistic value
of several among them. . . . While the Catholic Church is struggling
against its sworn enemy, the Bolshevik Anti-Christ . . .
certain members of the government want to brand the Church as
the enemy of the nation and prepare its destruction systematically.
.... Can it not already be seen that the unity of the nation is
undermined by the Government's persecution of religion? The
pretext put forward for the attack on religious beliefs is the
anxiety to prevent the divisions and weakness inevitably resulting
from religious differences. It seems to be forgotten that the
struggle of anti-Christians against Christianity is a source of still
greater weakness. . . . An attempt is being made to get rid of the
Christian God in order to replace Him by a "German God." What
does a "German God" mean? Is he different from the god of
other peoples? If so, then there must be a special god for each
nation and for each people. This is the same as saying that there
is no God An official statement has been made to the effect
that a creative God is unacceptable. . . . Thus the concept of the
One True God is denied and replaced by that of a god derived
from racial theory. . . . The fate of these systems is well known.
They disappear as quickly as they arise and simply lead to an
increase in the numbers of unbelievers." Herr Hitler's Pronouncement
of January 30th, 1939, is in flagrant contradiction with the
statements of Pope Pius XI and the German Hierarchy.
The German reaction against Judaeo-Masonic Internationalism,
then, represents the deification of the German Race in opposition
to the Jewish deification of the Jewish Race. What are the currents
that have come together to give birth to this disordered reaction?
They are many and varied. Two of them are specially
noteworthy. There is the current coming from the philosophy of
Kant, Fichte and Hegel, according to which the German mind is
the one destined to mould Europe and the world. Kant carried out
the "Copernican revolution" of making things conform to the
human mind instead of the human mind seeking to grasp the
objective order of the world. Fichte insisted that the elaboration
of the social and, of course, of the moral order of the world was
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