The Catholic Weekly of Muenster, Germany, reports three desecrations of crucifixes in the Bishopric of Limburg in a Nazi neo-pagan campaign against Christianity as “the Asiatic-Semitic world priesthood.”
According to “Kulturkampf,” a news bulletin issued here on the religious policy of the Third Reich, in commenting on the desecrations, the Catholic Weekly recalled slanders against the cross in the neo-pagan press.
An article in Durchbruch, organ of the German Faith movement, was quoted as follows:
“Therefore, German, remember when you go through the German countryside and meet the cross along a roadside, or on the summit of a hill, remember: there hangs not Christ, there hang you and your people humiliated by the Asiatic-Semitic world priesthood to the status of slavery, to be the toy of the Roman lust for power:”
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