Julius Leutheuser

Julius Leutheuser was a pastor in Thuringen. After the first World War, he studied theology and joined the Nazi Party. Leutheuser and Siegfried Leffler were both pastors that led the Thuringian branch of the pro-Nazi German Christian movement and both also founded the German Christian Church Movement in 1929. Leutheuser was publisher and editor for Die Nationalkirche: Briefe an Deutsche Christen (English: The National Church: Letters to German Christians).

Quotes

 * “What follows testifies to the inner urgency that animates my comrades and me-an urgency that has brought us together in the National Socialist struggle to prepare for the contest over the homecoming of the German soul to the Savior. ...”, Julius Leutheuser, The German Community of Christ: The Path to the German National Church, 1935.


 * “The word "German" is God's Word! Whosoever understands this is released from all theological conflicts. This is German: return home to Germany and leave behind egoism and your feelings of abandonment. ... Christ has come to us through the person of Adolf Hitler. ... Hitler has taken root in us; through his strength, through his honesty, his faith and his idealism we have found our way to paradise.”, Julius Leutheuser.