The Mormon church and its membership co-existed in Getmany with the Third Reich during its rise to power and reign of terror because Nazi leaders deemed the church to be non-threatening to Nazi designs, sympathetic to Nazi goals and in line with official Mormon church doctrine.

Below is an introduction abstract submitted as a 2012 dissertation by David Conley Nelson, Candidate for a doctor of philosophy degree, Texas A&M University.

Readers are urged to examine the devastating evidence in its entirety (link to full dissertation provided).

The Abstract:

“This dissertation studies a small American religious group that survived unscathed during the Third Reich.

“Some fifteen thousand members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, lived under National Socialism.

“Unlike persecuted Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other small American-based sects that suffered severe restrictions, the Mormons worshiped freely under Hitler’s regime.

“They survived by stressing congruence between church doctrine and Nazi dogma.

“Mormons emphasized their interest in genealogical research and sports, sent their husbands into the Wehrmacht and their sons into the Hitler Youth, and prayed for a Nazi victory in wartime.

“Mormon leaders purged all Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans and liturgical practices, and shunned their few Jewish converts.

“They resurrected a doctrinal edict that required deference to civil authority, which the Mormons had not always obeyed.

“Some Mormons imagined fanciful connections with Nazism, to the point that a few believed Hitler admired their church, copied its welfare program, and organized the Nazi party along Mormon lines.

“This dissertation builds upon Christine Elizabeth King’s theory of a common Weltanschauung between Mormons and Nazis, and Steven Carter’s description of the Mormons’ ‘accommodation’ with National Socialism. Instead of a passive approach, however, the Mormons pursued aggressive and shameless “ingratiation” with the Nazi state.

“This work also examines memory. Mormons later tried to forget their pandering to the Nazis, especially when large numbers of Germans immigrated to Utah in the post-
war period.

“When the story of a martyred Mormon resister, Helmuth Hübener, emerged in the 1970s, church officials interfered with the research of scholars at Brigham Young University.

“They feared that Hübener’s example would incite Mormon youth to rebel against dictators abroad, hurt the church’s relations with communist East Germany, and would offend recent German Mormon immigrants in Utah.

“A few Mormons shunned and harassed Hübener’s surviving coconspirators.

“In recent years, Hübener— excommunicated for rebellion against the Nazis but later restored to full church membership—has been rehabilitated as a recognized hero of Mormonism.

“A new collective memory has been forged, one of wartime courage and suffering, while the Inconvenient past us being conveniently ignored.”

(SOURCE: Abstract from “THE MORMONS IN NAZI GERMANY: HISTORY AND MEMORY,” A Dissertation by DAVID CONLEY NELSON,
Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Approved by Chair of Committee, Committee Members, Head of Department, DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, December 2012, https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/148154/Nelson,%20David.pdf?sequence=1)



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Perhaps the 12th Article of Faith needs a disclaimer or two.

Someone wrote a book about him after I had read about him and for some reason I believe it is written by a mormon? I have the book somewhere in my house, but I'm not going to go hunt it down as I have books in too many places. I have never read the book. I happen to have it because I bought it for my mom for Christmas a long time ago and, when my mother died, I took some of the things I had given her as gifts. Now, I'm going to have to go find it.

It was actually my VT who first told me about Hubener. Even though she was a good LDS person, she had big issues with the church and she is the one who told me many things I had no clue about. In fact, found out later that her oldest daughter's husband was gay, like my husband. He died while she was my VT and she told me of diabetes, but later when I told her about my husband, she said, "Oh, he died of AIDS." She opened my eyes up to church history more than most people ever have. She was still mormon when she died.

Choose the Reich when the Reich is placed before you
In the Reich the church and Führer guide
Endless night is forever hanging o'er you
Within the darkness the church can hide

I think that the drama with federal govt's involvement with Utah & ChurchCo was still Fresh in the minds or memories of past situations;

not justifying! But I'm believing that ChurchCo was in a 'Go Along to Get Along' frame of mind back then;

basic Right / Wrong Never was their strong suit!!!



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Same goes for prophecy and inspired leadership. It is almost as if God is not directing the Church at all.