{"id":6330,"date":"2009-11-17T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:50:39","slug":"taking-christ-out-of-christmas-has-a-nazi-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/taking-christ-out-of-christmas-has-a-nazi-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Christ out of Christmas has a Nazi precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1228630\/How-Hitlers-Nazi-propaganda-machine-tried-Christ-Christmas.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">Something to think about<\/a> before you wish someone a Happy Holidays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika tree baubles, &#8216;Germanic&#8217; cookies and a host of manufactured traditions, a new exhibition has shown.<\/p>\n<p>The way the celebration was gradually taken over and exploited for propaganda purposes by Hitler&#8217;s Nazis is detailed in a new exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Rita Breuer has spent years scouring flea markets for old German Christmas ornaments.<\/p>\n<p>She and her daughter Judith developed a fascination with the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis &#8211; after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,&#8217; Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. &#8216;The most important celebration in the year didn&#8217;t fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something to think about before you wish someone a Happy Holidays: Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika tree baubles, &#8216;Germanic&#8217; cookies and a host of manufactured traditions, a new exhibition has shown. The way the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/taking-christ-out-of-christmas-has-a-nazi-precedent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,75,307],"tags":[2049,2080,2267],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-christianity","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-atheism","tag-christianity","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}