The Nazi anti-British-Israel stance
I stumbled across this book some years ago. I don’t agree
with the conspiracy theories therein, but I found the following of interest.
>Persecution by Nazis
British Israelites, or adherents of related offshoots
(e.g. Nordic Israelism) were persecuted or suppressed by the Nazis during
World War II.
In Nazi occupied territories in Europe, British Israelite
or related literature was banned because it was considered as having a Jewish
agenda or considered to be anti-German (see Assyria and Germany in
Anglo-Israelism). Nederlandsche Israel-Kring, a Netherlands based organisation
teaching the Dutch offshoot of British Israelism was closed down by the Nazis.
Like the Jehovah’s Witnesses and other minority Christian
groups who were persecuted by the Nazis,
British Israelites or related adherents of offshoot
teachings were arrested by the Gestapo and placed in Nazi concentration camps
(see Purple triangle), where some died.
The son of Nordic Israelite identity preacher Albert
Hiorth, Frederik Hiorth, died in a Nazi concentration camp for his related
British Israelite beliefs. While most British Israelites or related offshoots
were persecuted by the Nazis because they were philo-semites (Philo-Semitism),
paradoxically the Christian
Identity movement [rather, some of them] which sprung
from British Israelism turned into antisemitism and supported Nazism<
One person wrote the following to me:
>During the preparations for Germany's Operation Sea
Lion, Reinhard Heydrich's office tasked Walter Schellenberg to prepare the
infamous Sonderfahndungsliste, the special search list. It directed Franz
Six to round up 3,000 specific individuals during the planned Nazi invasion of
Great Britain. The SS had produced similar litterature when preparing for the
invasion of Poland. Schellenberg also identified numerous groups and
institutions to be targeted for persecution. Among these was the "British Israel
World Federation" (please see pages 250 & 327 of the book,
available online courtesy of the
Hoover Institution).<