10 August 2006
The German mass circulation daily "Bild" has revealed that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler ordered the establishment of an " Entjudungsinstitut" ("Institute for the cleansing of Judaism from Christianity"). The institution's official aim was to cleanse the Protestant church of all ceremonies with non-Aryan influences and to compile alternative scriptures in part derived from the Nazi ideology. Church staff worked incessantly, conducting comprehensive surveys and publishing a large number of documents that imbued Christianity with Nazi commentary. A special prayer book called "Germans With God - A German Book of Faith" would contain a rewritten version of the Ten Commandments, in the spirit of Nazi ethics. The Bible replacement would have contained two more commandments, one of them stipulating "Honor Thy Führer and Master", and claimed that Jesus had not been a Jew but son of immigrants from Caucasia. Hebrew terms used in the Bible, such as "Hallelujah", "Jehovah" and even "Jerusalem", were to be replaced by German words. After the war, the director of the "Entjudungsinstitut", Walter Grundmann, went on become the rector and lecturer at a Protestant training college in Communist East Germany.
