A lot of fascinating research examines the influence of religion and socialism upon government. Many authors worry still about the potential for a future filled with persecution and totalitarianism. Those worries have relevance to the enormous size and scope of government in the USA and its growing police state.
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The leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party might have had his first contact with the swastika when he was a young student with the Benedictines at the Abbey of Lambach-am-Traum in upper Austria. At Lambach he saw the swastika engraved on the four corners of the monastery, where it had been sculpted several years before, pursuant to orders of the abbot, Theodorich Hagen. Next to the symbol were the letters "AL" for "Abbey Lambach" and the letters "TH" for Theodorich Hagen, and the year 1869. It is interesting to note that the four letters on the Abbey emblem included the initials "AH." When young "AH"  (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) became a student at Lambach, Father Hagen had already died, but the swastikas Hagen ordered carved were still there.

Many writers (e.g. Wakipedia) suggest supernatural powers for the swastika with information such as this: "An erudite ecclesiastic, Father Hagen had studied astrology and the occult sciences. In 1856 he made a trip to the Near East, visiting Persia, Arabia, Turkey, and the Caucasus. Upon his return to Lambach in 1868 he hired workers to sculpt the swastika on the four corners of the building and on other religious objects."

That sort of nonsense pleased the National Socialist leader because he knew people were impressed and influenced by mystery.

Such writers overlooked the amazing discoveries made by the noted cryptologist Dr. Rex Curry because they failed to note the connection between the abbot's name and the symbol he carved. In the German language, the symbol is not called a swastika. 

Most people do not know that a cross was worshiped as the notorious symbol of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The group called their symbol the Hakenkreuz, not the swastika. Hakenkreuz means "hooked cross." It is one of the biggest cover-ups in history. The hooked cross became a symbol of Christian Socialism. http://rexcurry.net/christian-socialism-social-gospel.html

Instead of sinister occult symbolism, the German Hakenkreuz was converted into a whimsical "Hagenkreuz" billboard by the abbot (it is interesting to know that "Theodorich" means God's gift).

The "Abbott & Costello" humor continued under the man with the Charlie Chaplin moustache, where it turned dark. The "Hagenkreuz" became the "Hitlerkreuz." He also imitated the form of the cartouche and the "AL" and "TH" initials (by substituting his own "AH").

It is also interesting to note that the heritage of Hitler's name included "Adolf Schicklgruber."  The leader of German National Socialism altered his own signature so that "Adolf" resembled a large "S" for "socialist."  The doppelsieg became the mark of the "Schicklgruber Socialist" for "Schicklgruber Socialism."

Although the swastika was an ancient symbol, the symbologist Dr. Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets") discovered that it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists to represent "S" letters for their "socialism."  The leader of German National Socialism rotated the symbol 45 degrees and had newer uses oriented clockwise. He put it on his flag and made everyone worship with salutes and chants. He combined the cross with collectivism, merged church and state, meshed religion and socialism, and mandateed the worship of government. He altered his own signature to use the same symbolism, and similar alphabetic symbolism still shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html

The Abbey Lambach supports Dr. Curry's work because it shows that the German National Socialist leader altered the symbol to create clear "S" letters for his "socialism."

In the 1930's, religious people were persecuted for refusing to give the straight-arm salute to the national flag. That persecution occurred in the USA (to the stars and stripes) and in Germany (to the swastika flag) at the same time.

The early Pledge of Allegiance used a straight-arm salute and it was the origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as shown in recent discoveries by Dr. Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). The USA used the straight arm salute to the national flag for three decades before German National Socialists started doing the same thing.

The straight-arm salute was created by Francis Bellamy, a minister who lost his position because he used the pulpit to push what he called "Christian Socialism" in sermons on themes like "Jesus the Socialist." http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

Francis was cousin and cohort to Edward Bellamy, author of "Looking Backward" an international bestseller that was known as the Bible of National Socialism. Edward also authored "The Religion of Solidarity" and other articles and books with similar ideas.

Both Bellamys worked to promote Christian Socialism.  They wanted the government to take over all schools to spread their dogma. Both Bellamys descended from a long line of men who touted similar dogma for generations. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1i.html

It was the same dogma that led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 65 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC); 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP).

It all shows how close the USA came (and is still coming) to the socialist Wholecaust. Many Americans serve as sad examples of how places like that come into existence, grow so large, last so long, and kill so many.  

Historians make their work relevant to current events. Such stories are relevant to the fact that the present government in the USA is anti libertarian and is out-socializing the previous administration by more than double and growing (in social spending ALONE). The demonic dogma of socialism, sacrifice, and self-sacrifice is still growing all over the world. 

The government should not run Sunday school, nor Monday school through Friday school. The First Amendment should be enlarged to state that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of education nor an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.  The separation of school and state is as important as the separation of church and state.

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Pope Benedict's Swastika http://rexcurry.net/swastika-lambach-pope-ratzinger-regensburg-germany2006.jpg


Broken Cross http://rexcurry.net/swastika-lambach-extreme-unction-rogier-van-der-Weyden.jpg

The swastika style design worn by Pope Benedict (Ratzinger) on his trip to Regensburg, Germany in 2006 is particularly interesting in light of the fact that Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth.

The head of the NSGWP was raised as a Roman Catholic by his parents, as was customary where he lived. His mother wanted him to become a priest. He saw the swastika symbol while he was a young student with the Benedictins at the Abbey of Lambach-am-Traum, in upper Austria. The symbol was engraved on the four corners of the monastery. It was not called a swastika. German National Socialists called the symbol that they worshippd a Hakenkreuz.  It was a type of cross.  "Hakenkreuz" translates as "hooked cross." In some ways, the head of the NSGWP did become a priest. A priest of Christian Socialism.
 

A monastery is a community of persons who give up individuality to live collectively, through self-sacrifice, and they often take vows to live in poverty, and give up private property.  The term "monastery" comes from the root "mono" as meaning living as one. In a free society, such a manner of living is voluntary and rare.  Under socialism, such a manner of living is involuntary and is imposed on everyone by government.  It results in widespread poverty.

The leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party became Chancellor of Germany.  The term "chancellor" has several meanings including:
1.    the chief minister of state in certain parliamentary governments, as in Germany; prime minister; premier.
2.    the priest in charge of a Roman Catholic chancery.

The word "chancellor" is itself related to the word "cross" and comes from the term "cancellāre" to cross out, which is related to a Latin term meaning "to make like a lattice or grating" (with crosses).

The word "cancellus" means:
1.    (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
2.    (in an ancient Roman basilica) one of a row of bars separating the court personnel from the spectators.
3.    cancelli, a screen of such bars.

In 1939 the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics joined as allies to invade Poland in a pact to divide up Europe. Armageddon, the apocalypse, and the Great Wars against humanity were visible in their work. Their satanic leaders would not separate church and state, they combined religion with socialism, and they worshipped government. After WWII, Stalin and Mao went on to kill even more people. Socialism is hades. http://rexcurry.net/wholecaust-museum.html

Support for Dr. Curry's work comes from other authors who believe the Holocaust under the Knight of the Hakenkreuz was an inquisition (including religious persecution) undertaken by the leader of the Knights of the Hakenkreuz under his religious beliefs.

In the USA the hooked cross was a common symbol and was referred to as a cross (armed cross, twisted cross, lucky cross, crooked cross, hooked cross) before "swastika" became dominant. The eventual dominance of "swastika" occurred in part to distance the cross from German Christian Socialism, by slandering a foreign symbol.

Religious children and children of various races and backgrounds were required by law to perform the straight-arm salute in government schools in robotic chanting every morning at the ring of a government bell (just as it is done today but with a different gesture). Many people considered the raised-arm salute to the national flag to be sacrilegious worship of government and socialism. Religious people had good reasons to consider the pledge / salute to be sacrilegious, in that Germans used the ritual toward their Hakenkreuz symbol, the "hooked cross."

Today, most people in the USA were educated in government schools (socialist schools), so they are ignorant of the fact that the salute (and robotic chanting to the flag) was happening in both Germany and the USA. http://rexcurry.net/jehovahs-witnesses-fight-socialism-in-USA.html

The Protestant Reich Church was formed under the National Socialist German Worker's Party in 1933, by merging 29 regional churches into one church. The founding of the church was the result of work by the German Christian Socialists.

During the war, Alfred Rosenberg drew up a thirty-point program for a new "National Reich Church." One point declared that the "Hakenkreuz" (hooked cross or swastika) would be the type of cross used in the Church.

Christian socialists were like all socialists in that they hated the U.S. Constitution and wanted to destroy it because, back in the old days, people actually thought that the U.S. Constitution was supposed to limit the size and scope of government.

"Looking Backward" was so popular that it was translated into every major language, including German, Russian, and Chinese.  It immediately inspired a supportive political movement with “Nationalism Clubs” worldwide.

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The leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP) was believed to be of Christian faith by many people. He was influenced by the Christian Social movement and its founder Karl Lueger, after Luerger's rise to power in Vienna in 1897. Vienna mayor Karl Lueger was credited in 'Mein Kampf' as a role model and inspirational figure to the leader of the NSGWP. The book Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna : Christian Socialism in Power, 1897-1918 is by John W. Boyer and he traces the movement's evolution from a dissident political group of disparate ward politicians, through its maturation into the largest single party in the Austrian parliament by 1907, to its major role in Imperial politics during the First World War.

In the historic film "Triumph of the Will," the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party states: "The Party will be like a religious order."

In his book The Holy Reich (NSGWP Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945) Richard Steigmann-Gall argues persuasively that the the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP) did not reject Christianity,

In addressing the rabid socialism of the NSGWP in The Holy Reich, Steigmann-Gall writes about Joseph Goebbels and Goebbels' novel "Michael" (1923):

Joseph Goebbels, for whom the “socialism” in National Socialism was of particular importance, was a notable example in this regard.

Sacrifice is intrinsic to socialism. 

Goebbels’ reference to “Christ Socialists” (Christussozialisten) as opposed to “Christian Socialists” (Christliche Sozialisten) emphasizes the nearly evangelical nature of the struggle: An unadulterated return to Christ’s teachings, free of the temporal church, is the only way to German salvation. “The modern man is intrinsically a seeker of God, perhaps a Christman.... We modern Germans are something like Christ Socialists.”

Even in private, without the requirements of political expediency that otherwise might have compelled him to cynical posturing, Goebbels similarly wrote: “Speaking does not help. Action! Be socialists of action. There is too little of that. Be true Christians!”’ This emphasis on an active morality, a “practical” Christianity, would be a continuous theme for Goebbels well into the Third Reich.

Goebbels seriously believed his own disturbing statement — there is no evidence that he ever said anything different in private when he would have had the freedom to reveal his “genuine” feelings, if they differed from his public comments. Instead, his private statements and his public statements were consistent.

The following is about the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party:

[I]n a private meeting on NSGWP economics with his inner circle, held in 1930, [The NSGWP leader] elaborated his ideas on “real” socialism once again, but now with explicit reference to Christ: “It is such a far-reaching and complete conversion that the adult is no longer capable of it. Only youth can be converted, newly aligned and adjusted to the socialist sense of obligation toward the community. For almost two thousand years the Gospel of Christ has been preached, for two thousand years the sense of community has been taught. . . . But today, at the end of these two thousand years, economic liberalism flourishes as never before!” ...

For [the NSGWP leader], the answer to the current state of affairs lay in a resurrection of Christ’s ideas: “As Christ proclaimed ‘love one another’, so our call — ‘peoples’ community’, ‘public need before private greed’, ‘communally-minded social consciousness’ — rings out through the German fatherland! This call will echo throughout the world!” Without reference to a particular variety, “positive” or otherwise, [the NSGWP leader] insists that Christianity is at the center of [National Socialist German Workers' Party] social thought. As with Buch and Goebbels, [the NSGWP leader] regards the teachings of Christ as direct inspiration for the “German” socialism advanced by the party.

Many Socialists and Christians in modern America may have difficulty understanding how their ideas were used in the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The New Testament describes the early Christian communities as if they were socialist:

All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.  (Acts 2:44-45)

It is a line that long pre-dated Marx’s notorious recipe for death: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” 

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It is frightening how far the USA joined in the depravity. The major Supreme Court cases about the pledge involved religious children in government schools who were being forced to robotically chant the pledge to the national flag with the straight-arm salute. Those cases began in the 1930's but did not reach decision until 1940 & 1943. At first the children were unsuccessful in the USA.  Socialists persecuted the children, expelled them from the socialist schools, arrested their parents, seized children from parents on allegations of "unfit parenting," and many children had to flee and use the many better alternatives, including home-schooling and their own church schools (but they and their schools were often persecuted by socialists there also).

At the height of National Socialism abroad, the USA's government deliberately fell farther into the same abyss with national numbering of humans imposed in 1935 with the social security system. The federal government was growing massively and attempting to nationalize the economy in many ways. The US Supreme Court struck down much of the new legislation as unconstitutional until justices were pressured by the "switch in time that socialized nine."

It is sad to note that during the same time period in the USA, religious people who were fleeing the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSGWP) were turned away from the USA, and knowingly sent to suffering and death.  That happened because of socialists who support restrictions on immigration and on every American’s right to hire, to do business, and to freely associate. It was similar to today.  Socialists in the USA still support restrictions on immigration and they reject the right of every American in living with, marrying, renting to, selling to, buying from, hiring (as housekeeper, lawn man, doctor, nanny, teacher etc) any person with whom that American wishes to associate. Little has changed.

The USA still follows similar anti libertarian policies promoted by the Bellamys. Many socialist Bellamy policies caused the USA’s big, expensive and oppressive government and its growing police-state. The Bellamys promoted the U.S. disaster of old prohibition, as well as modern prohibition.  It caused the Great Socialist Depression (from the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act 1930 etc) that persisted and even lasted through U.S. involvement in WWII. Socialism's quest for omniscience was enlarged with social security numbers in 1935 to track and tax everyone, as the USA followed the path of German National Socialists at the height of their power. The federal government grew massively and nationalized the economy in many ways.

The Pledge still exists along with laws mandating that teachers lead the robotic pledge chanting every day for twelve years of each child’s life (though the salute was altered). The government still owns and operates schools. The U.S. practice of imposing segregation by law in government schools and teaching racism as official policy outlasted the National Socialist German Workers' Party by over 15 years. After segregation in government's schools ended, the Bellamy legacy caused more police-state racism of forced busing that destroyed communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities. Those schools still exist.  Infants are given social security numbers (socialist slave numbers) that track and tax them for life.  Government schools demand the numbers for enrollment.

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The Bellamys were bigots and racists and they obsessed about immigrants coming into the USA.  They wanted to impose a heavy-handed method of brain-washing immigrants and all Americans into accepting their socialist dogma.  Because of the Bellamys, the USA has a long history of turning immigrants away from being good Americans and independent capitalists, and in turning immigrants into socialists who are dependent on government.

The Bellamys promoted a government takeover of schools, and when the government granted their wish, the government schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy. 

It is also true that German National Socialists did not refer to themselves with the hackneyed shorthand n-word, nor the f-word, and there is no such use in Mein Kampf nor in Triumph of the Will.  Modern writers, on the other hand, cover-up the truth and never use the actual name of the horrid Party, and deceitfully use the shorthand terms, exclusively to perpetuate widespread ignorance, and that is why those terms are trite.

The Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) was an ancient religious symbol in Germany, related to the un-hooked cross and to the Prussian-German Iron cross and to other crosses.