Nazi leader Hitler's early vision was to be an artist, but he soon gave up on that dream. In vienna's slums, Hitler made a living selling paintings. Before and after, he sold thousands of watercolors. Hitler himself was well aware of the value of these paintings. When the slum dweller complimented his paintings, he laughed at himself that he was just a layman and that he had not yet started painting.
Hitler painted Jesus more than once. He painted Jesus on the cross in The Holy Mountain, Jesus as a baby in the Image of the Virgin, and a painting of Jesus reaching out to comfort a resting soldier while he was in the barracks. And that soldier was obviously Hitler himself.
In the mud of the French front, in his poor life, Hitler constantly cursed traitors, Jews, cowards, and defeatists. But in his most troubled and exhausting times, he still unconsciously sought comfort in Jesus. In that image, there is no patriotism and traitor, only love and compassion. During his days of poverty, he also planned to write a script about Christianity. In that script, missionaries were martyred in order to spread the gospel to southern Germany.
But the encounter between Hitler and Jesus was short-lived.
After becoming The Fuehrer of Germany, Hitler forgot the comfort that Jesus gave him when he was poor yesterday, and in his heart, Jesus has become a ridiculous symbol, and love and compassion have become contemptible feelings. The 30 Theses of the General Church of Germany stipulates that the State General Church will remove all crucifixion from the altar. It will be replaced by Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf and a sword; the Christian cross will be removed and replaced with a "swastika" symbol. Hitler wanted to replace Jesus. The Jesus who held out his hand to comfort him became a distant memory.
In order to seduce the hearts and minds of the world, Hitler even erased everything about the Jews in the Bible and described Jesus as an Aryan of the same superior race as them. I hastily changed the "hukou" for Jesus, and I don't know how Jesus should feel. This "Nazi" Bible, later renamed Germany with the Lord, was listed as two must-read books for "subjects of the Third Reich," along with Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf.
For the sake of nazism, Hitler also tampered with the "Ten Commandments of Moses" to the "Twelve Commandments of Nazism." The Ten Commandments of Moses were laws god laid down for the Jews led by Moses, warning the people not to commit adultery, not to steal, and not to frame others. And the "Nazi Twelve Commandments" added "Honor your Fuehrer and Master!" to the original content. Work and sacrifice for the people happily. This is what the Lord asks of us." In fact, in the Nazi world, the Fuehrer and the so-called people were only Hitler himself.
As Hitler came to the end of his life, frustration once again enveloped him. Thus the image of Jesus was restored. In a speech, Hitler highly praised the great spirit of Christianity and declared: "As a Christian, I have an obligation to fight for truth and justice. Unfortunately, this time Jesus was very angry, and the consequences were very serious. The hand that stretched out in the dark was not the hand of Jesus, who had once given him spiritual comfort, but the hand of Stalin who issued the general offensive order, and the tide of soviet tanks instantly overwhelmed the "pseudo-saint" Hitler, who despised the "saint" Jesus.
Hitler and Jesus met only once. And that encounter was in the muddy trenches of the French front in World War I.