Israeli bigotry

[molly bloom]

They weren't Christian for sure.

Actually a great many of them were, as were their supporters. Not YOUR kind of Christian, but Christian nonetheless. The neo-paganism was a part of Nazi kultur, but so was the national church, the Concordat with the Vatican and enthusiastic 'Sieg Heiling' by Catholics and Protestants alike.

Again, I suggest reading 'A Social History Of The Third Reich' where the chapter on the accomodations with the Nazi state and its policies by the church bodies and individuals make for unpleasant reading.

Does this common link apply to the muslim areas of North Africa too?

What acts of antisemitism are you referring to ? In any case, the entirety of North Africa was for part of WWII in the hands of Vichy France, Fascist Italy and Franco's Nazi-sympathetic Spain.

Back in Germany, in 1930 Mainz's Vicar General opined that even though it might be un-Christian to hate other races (you don't say!) he nonetheless concurred with Hitler's views on the pernicious and dominating influence of Jews in the media, theatre and literature.

Kurmark's Lutheran bishop added his two penn'orth (just for a bit of ecumenical evenhandedness, presumably)

One cannot fail to appreciate that Jewry plays a leading role among all the disruptive phenomena of modern civilization..

In 1927, a theologian from Erlangen stated at an Evangelical Congress:

The Church must have eyes and words for the threat that Jewry poses to German folkdom. Service to the Fatherland is divine service.

Let's remember- these speakers were by no means hardline Nazis or even part members when they said these things.