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-15- I Ccbparijona batmen Christ and himpaLf became mote mi»rou£ and found their way Into his conversation and For axauplOj ha would say i I cane to Berlin a few wealcs a«o and locked at th.6 traffic la the flmrfuersttta- daraa, th* luxury, the perversion, the iniquity, the wanton display, and the Jewish matarialiam diagiutted me flo thoroughly, that I was aLuost beside aysslf * I nearly Imagined nypalf to be JeffuB Christ when HA daoa to His Father1 a teftple and found i t taken by the HOBey-changarfu I can well imagine how He fait when He freiied a whip and scourged than out*" (90S) During his speech* according to Hanfstangl, he swung r his whip around violently as though to drlva cut the Jews and the fonjojs of darkness^ Uie camLss of (tonaany and GOTHUID honof^ Dietrich Eckart, who discover ed Hltlsr ft a a possible Leader and had witnessed this performance, said later, "When a nan gsta to the point of identifying hlna^lf with Jasus Chriet, than h* la ripe for an insane asylum." The id«ntlfication in all thla w&a not with Jeflufl Christ, the Crucified, but with Jesus ChrlBt, the furiouPt lashing the crowds* As a natter of fact, Hitler has veiy l i t t l e admiration for Christ, the Crucified* Although he was brought up a Catholic, and received Coiuninian, during "the war, he aeTarsd his connection _ with the Church directly .afterwards* Tbie kind of Christ he considers soft and weak and unsuitable aa a .German L The latter nuflt T>» hard and brutal i ! h* ie to save - - i and lead it to its destiny*, , y foaling as a Christian pointH w to Lord and Saviour ae & fighter* It points se to the man who one* in : REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES