| − | ''When Hitler was fighting for power, he published a program of his Nazi Party. There, in the article 24, it was declared: "We are all for positive Christianity." Many genuine Christians got hooked for it. But when Hitler finally had acquired the full power in the country, it was suddenly disclosed what many had overlooked: The 'Positive Christianity' has been just disguised Nazism. At the same time, the fight against the Bible triggered its ramp. Especially the Old Testament was taken under the heavy fire. Everywhere you could hear and read: Well, the New Testament can be allowed to circulate for some time, because the teaching there in is about the God of [[love]]. Just one thing, the letters of Jew Paul must be eliminated from there, they smack too much of the Spirit of the Old Testament. As for the Old Testament itself - oh, that’s a terrible book, a dirty book, a horrifying book! There in, a voice of the Judeo-Syrian God of desert and revenge can be heard.'' | + | ''When Hitler was fighting for power, he published a program of his Nazi Party. There, in the article 24, it was declared: "We are all for positive Christianity."{{#tag:ref|cf.NSDAP Party Program (February 24, 1920) Point 24:''"We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: The good of the state before the good of the individual." ''<ref>{{cite book |title=Dictionary of Antisemitism: From the Earliest Times to the Present|author=Robert Michael and Philip Rosen|publisher=The Scarecrow Press|year=2007|page=321|isbn=978-08-1085-8688|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=d5927rY-UgoC&pg=PA321&redir_esc=y}}</ref>|group=note}} Many genuine Christians got hooked for it. But when Hitler finally had acquired the full power in the country, it was suddenly disclosed what many had overlooked: The 'Positive Christianity' has been just disguised Nazism. At the same time, the fight against the Bible triggered its ramp. Especially the Old Testament was taken under the heavy fire. Everywhere you could hear and read: Well, the New Testament can be allowed to circulate for some time, because the teaching there in is about the God of [[love]]. Just one thing, the letters of Jew Paul must be eliminated from there, they smack too much of the Spirit of the Old Testament. As for the Old Testament itself - oh, that’s a terrible book, a dirty book, a horrifying book! There in, a voice of the Judeo-Syrian God of desert and revenge can be heard.'' |
| − | [[Nazism|Nazist]] forbade the study of "Jewish book" which was their reference to the [[Old Testament]] and its scholarship disappeared from German seminaries and journals. In 1940 [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] was fined for defiantly publishing a book on [[Psalms]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Bible Jesus Read |author= Philip Yancey |publisher=Zondervan |location=Michigan |year=2002 |pages=24 |isbn=978-0-310-245-667 |url=http://books.google.sk/books?id=KFSWSzyEZL4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Bible+Jesus+Read&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HHWhUP555NnhBOTLgLAN&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Bonhoeffer&f=false}}</ref> | + | In 1936, ''Der Stürmer'', anti-Semitic Nazi newspaper published by [[Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal|Julius Streicher]], brought up the following anti-Old-Testament propagandistic slogan: |
| | + | ''Den Geist, der aus dem Buche spricht, Versteht die deutsche Jugend nicht.{{#tag:ref|Translation from German: The Spirit that speaks out of Book cannot be grasped by German Youth (meaning: The German Youth cannot understand the Spirit of Old Testament)<ref>{{cite web |title=Katholische Schulen im NS-Staat:Unterdrückung bis zum Ende, Karikaturen aus dem FORUM - Sonderheft 31|publisher=Schulstiftung der Erzdiözese Freiburg (Educational Foundation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg)|date=March 2001|url=http://www.schulstiftung-freiburg.de/de/forum/pdf/pdf_140.pdf|accessdate=24-May-2013|language=German}}</ref>.|group=note}}'' |