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In order to understand the Nazis' religious ideas and policies, we must examine their fanatical hostility to the Jews and Judaism.
The Nazis' anti-Semitism was a part of their hatred of religion. Because, according to Nazi logic, the Germans had first been a warrior-pagan society, until they had abandoned that culture with the spread of Christianity, a continuation of Judaism. The Nazis' hatred of Christianity stemmed from the fact they saw it as a "Jewish conspiracy." That the Prophet Jesus, himself of Jewish origins, should be loved and respected by the Germans, whom they considered the "master race," was an idea the Nazis found unacceptable. In the Nazis' opinion, it was not prophets of Jewish origin who should light the way for the German people, but the cruel and barbaric warriors of pagan German culture.
According to the Nazi ideology, the history of the world was seen as a conflict between the "Aryan race" and the "Semites." To the Nazis, the Aryan race was the leader of Indo-European culture, and the Semites (the Jews and Arabs) the leaders of Middle Eastern culture. The fundamental characteristic of Indo-European culture was its pagan belief system. It was for this reason that the Nazis saw themselves as the inheritors of paganism. They looked on the Jews as a hostile race who had abandoned paganism and spread monotheistic belief to the rest of the world.
The Pink Swastika, which discusses the Nazis' pagan ideologies, summarizes:
The reason why the Nazis first attacked the Jewish people and swore to exterminate them physically and spiritually is because the teachings of the Bible, both the Torah and the New Testament, represent the foundations on which the whole system of Christian ethics rests.113
This errant belief of the Nazis can be discerned in many other fascist movements as well. Many neo-fascist groups today hold pagan beliefs which they consider "the religion of the Aryan race," and bear a particular hatred of the revealed religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, which they describe as "Semitic myth." Similarly, based on such deviant logic, fascist groups have emerged in the Islamic world and have tried to develop a new type of anti-Semitism in the form of "anti-Arabism."
However, the divine religion was not addressed solely to the Semitic races, but to everyone. Fascism, which denies the religion that God has revealed to mankind, and reveres the perverse paganism of its ancestors,is actually a great error. God mentions these errant people who turn to the "religion of their ancestors"in the Koran:
When they are told, "Follow what God has sent down to you," They say, "We are following what we found our fathers doing." What, even though their fathers did not understand a thing and were not guided! (Koran, 2:170)