"Last spring the Third Reich recognized a third official state religion: a neo-pagan cult based on Thor, Wotan, Siegfried and the old Nordic gods. It was especially favored by ultranazis and by Hitler's black-shirted bodyguards, the Schutzstaffel or S.S. corps... Heathen temples now thrive in many German rural and provincial towns; but city-dwellers are too blasé
to adopt such fantastic rites... Last week, in northern back-woodsy Mecklenburg, the Fifteenth Century Chapel of St. Gertrude became a Hall of the Ancestors or a Temple of German Blood... Ralph W. Barnes (1899 – 1940) cabled the New York Herald Tribune from Guestrow:
"The reconstructed chapel has been stripped of all Christian symbols... It is simple almost to the point of austerity... A bust of Adolf Hitler, clear-cut against the white wall, might be said to replace the altar... Bold outlines of the Nazi swastika replaced the cross in a stained-glass window."
"Germany is said to contain five million pagans."
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