“General Goering, Dr. Goebbels, and (before the blood-bath) Captain Roehm.”
One teacher went further. The pupils in the Public School in Wanne, Queen Louise’s School, had to copy this “Credo” from the blackboard: “I believe in Germany, God’s other beloved Son, Master of His own Self, conceived under the Nordic Heavens, born between the Alps and the Sea, suffered under Papists and Mammonists, calumniated, beaten, and thrust into misery, tempted into Hell by Devils of all sorts after decades of poverty and affliction, arisen again from the national Death into Ekkehardt’s, Bach’s and Goethe’s world of the Spirit, where He sitteth at the side of His brother of Nazareth, at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.”
The writer of that lunatic passage is named Deppe. It was quoted in the General Evangelical-Lutheran Church Newspaper on May 14, 1937.
There are slogans provided for German youth. The children must learn one a week, and recite it each day of that week. “Judas, the Jew, betrayed Jesus, the German, to the Jews.” What impressive madness! And no one can distinguish the religious slogans from the National Socialist ones:
Versailles ist Lüge, Schmach und Schand,
Versailles ist Dein Tod, O Vaterland, —
Du bist ein deutsches Kind, so denke dran,
Was Dir der Feind in Versailles angetan!
Versailles was a lie, a shame, a brand,
Versailles was your death, O Fatherland,—