During the Christmas season in Germany, there was plenty of Silent Night and O
Tannenbaum—two Christmas carols that originated there.
But during the Third Reich, one was more likely to hear a hymn called Exalted Night instead of a silent one.
The popular hymn—which dwelled on motherhood, renewal, and holiday fires—seemingly fit right in with the rest of the Christmas songs. But like so much in Nazi Germany, it was a carefully constructed fake, written by a Nazi songwriter as part of an attempt to apply Leader Adolf Hitler’s hateful ideology to Christmas.
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During the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis did their best to transform Germany’s beloved Christmas traditions into Nazi ones. Though
Hitler’s attempts to create a national church failed, his party’s attempt to redefine religious celebrations was more successful.
To do this, they used ideology and propaganda to put the holiday in line with the national socialists’ antisemitic values.
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| Have you been misbehaving, little child? Krampus is here! |
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The Nazis’ problem with Christmas was baked into Christmas itself. After all, [Nordic depicted]
Jesus Christ was
a dark-skinned [
Mizrahi] Jew—and both antisemitism and the goal of expelling Jews and Jewishness were part of the core of Nazi ideology.
This presented a problem when it came to Germany.
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| An Ashke'NAZI Jew is my ideal German. |
Not only was the nation devoutly Christian, but it was the place where many Christmas traditions, like Advent calendars, [Krampus and
Saint Nick aka
Santa Klaus], Christmas trees, and Christmas markets, were born. The Nazis knew it would be impossible to eradicate Christianity entirely, so they decided to rework it in their own image.
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