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Some modern historians attempt to link Nazism to Christianity. This however, is lacking any true historical basis. In ''The Occult Causes of the Present War'', historian Lewis Spence notes the overbearing pagan and satanic ideological that drove the Nazi Party. Nazis frequently engaged in the "replacement of the cross by the Swastika" in churches and that their party leaders had resurrected the worship of the fertility goddess Holle.<ref>[https://www.historynet.com/book-review-hitlers-monsters-eric-kurlander.htm Hitler’s Monsters]</ref> Another tenet of occultist activity was the belief in Irminism, which is was a current within Ariosophy<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Return_of_Odin/ft0zDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT202 The Return of Odin, The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination]</ref> that held that the Bible was written in Germany and the Germanic God of 'Krist' was co-opted by Christians.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Forgotten_Worlds/21koDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT98 Forgotten Worlds]</ref> Other mystical and pagan beliefs that dominated their ideology included a focus on the lost city of Atlantis and Welteislehre, or World Ice Theory.<ref>[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/nazis-and-the-dark-arts Nazis and the dark arts]</ref>[[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] notably said the following about Hitler, Nazism, and its relationship with Christianity, {{Cquote|“There is a man alone, without family, without children, without God… He builds legions but he doesn’t build a nation. A nation is created by families, a religion, tradition: it is made up out of the hearts of mothers, the wisdom of fathers, the joy and the exuberance of children. [Hitler’s Germany would be]… an all-swallowing State, disdainful of human dignities and the ancient structure of our race, setting itself up in place of everything else. And the man who, alone, incorporates in himself this whole State, has neither a God to honour nor a dynasty to conserve, nor a past to consult.<ref>https://mattrob.com/kaiser-wilhelm-on-hitler-and-the-nazis/</ref>}}