Christmas messages from the Nazis
24th December 1941: The official Christmas message has a very different interpretation on the front line in Russia
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The Nazi's took their ideology to extremes, devotion to the Fuhrer approached a pseudo-religious level. Goebbels even went so far as to borrow the language of Christianity in his Christmas Eve message to Germans in 1941:
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