NAZI ADMIRATION FOR ISLAM
HITLER'S ADMIRATION FOR ISLAM
HITLER MEETING WITH GRAND MUFTI
BERLIN, NOVEMBER 28, 1941
According to Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer, Hitler wished that the Caliphate had won the Battle of Tours against the Franks in 732: "The Mohammedan religion would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"[193] "Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers — already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing was Christianity ! — then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies heroism and which opens the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so."[194] According to Speer, Hitler was convinced that had Islam taken root in central Europe at this time, the Germanic people would have become the "heirs of that religion" with Islam being "perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament".
‘It’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion,” Hitler complained to his pet architect Albert Speer. “Why did it have to be Christianity, with its meekness and flabbiness?” Islam was a Männerreligion—a “religion of men”—and hygienic too. The “soldiers of Islam” received a warrior’s heaven, “a real earthly paradise” with “houris” and “wine flowing.” This, Hitler argued, was much more suited to the “Germanic temperament” than the “Jewish filth and priestly twaddle” of Christianity.
HIMMLER'S ADMIRATION FOR ISLAM
Longerich quotes Himmler as saying in November
1944 that Islam is "a practical and sympathetic religion for soldiers." "It
promises that those who fall in battle will go to heaven."
We find similar quotes in Kersten's 1952 book. On December 1, 1942, Himmler told
Kersten:
"Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he
promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in battle.
This is the kind of language a soldier understands. When he believes that he
will be welcomed in this manner in the afterlife, he will be willing to give his
life, he will be enthusiastic about going to battle and not fear death. You may
call this primitive and you may laugh about it, but it is based on deeper
wisdom. A religion must speak a man's language."
Himmler told his masseur Felix Kersten on
December 2, 1942, that he was reading serious books on the "Mohammedan
religion." When the war was over, he said, he wanted to visit the Islamic
countries himself with a view to continuing his studies. "Look, how wise ("vernünftig")
this religion is."
Himmler: "Let us assume that the Turkish Muslim armies would have conquered
Vienna and Europe in 1683..."
Five days later, Himmler told Kersten that he regretted the fact that the
Turkish Muslim armies had not been able to conquer Europe in 1683:
"Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well,
even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe in 1683 instead
of having been forced to withdraw. If the Mohammedans would have gained the
victory at the time and Islam would have swept victoriously over Europe, then
the Christian churches would have been depoliticized. (...) For the Turks were
religiously tolerant, they allowed each religion to continue to exist, provided
it was no longer involved in politics – otherwise it was finished."
HIMMLER MEETING GRAND MUFTI IN UKRAINE, JULY 4, 1943