Chapters 2 and 3 of this book answered some of the questions I had from Chapter 1. Melita joined the Hitler Youth at age 15 in secret, because she knew that her parents never would have allowed it. By the time she was 17 or 18, her parents found out, and were extremely displeased-so much so that they sent her away to a Christian boarding school.
Unfortunately, she was taught at this Christian boarding school that it was totally possible to be both a Nazi and a Christian. Her teachers seemed really to believe this, but Melita was smart enough to know that it was nonsense. She states outright that she suspects and always suspected that her teachers adopted this absurd position because of cowardice. Or maybe they were just confused. Whatever the reason, Melita knew very well that she couldn’t be both a Nazi and a Christian, and faced with that choice, she decided hands down to be a Nazi.
In the world Melita describes, the Nazis had all the energy, all the conviction, all of the selflessness, courage, and willingness to sacrifice: as Melita describes it, the Christians of that time and that place possessed none of those qualities. As Melita describes them, they were very wishy washy people who were just trying to go along to get along. I get the impression that this had much to do with why she chose Naziism over Christianity.
It scares me to think about this, and I wonder, were Melita’s teachers really just scared, or was there something darker at work?
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