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German Templers In Palestine

PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:51 am
by EzraLB
I was not familiar with this obscure part of the history of Palestine:

"The Templers – unconnected with the Knights Templar – had been expelled from Germany’s Lutheran Evangelical Church in the 19th century. They thought living in the Holy Land would save them from sin and it would be theirs to inherit, not the Jewish people’s. Many openly supported Hitler’s Nazi Party as it rose to power in the 1930s, setting up their own branches and flying the swastika over their Bethlehem."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... em-4879107

"[The Templer's] presence in Bethlehem of Galilee was significant when Hitler was trying to re-write Christianity. There have been claims that he and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, believed that, far from being king of the hated Jews, Jesus was born to Aryan tribes never driven out of Israelite settlements in Galilee."

It's worth noting that these German Templers "believed Bethlehem of Galilee, nine miles west of Nazareth, was the true birthplace of Jesus, not the West Bank town of the same name."

Re: German Templers In Palestine

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:59 am
by Gaius
Thanks, Ezra; very interesting.

Some more detail, including the assassination of the Templers' leader by Haganah and the deportation of the old and frail from "Israel" after WW2 --

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22276494

Continuation today in Germany and Australia --

http://www.tempelgesellschaft.de/

http://www.templesociety.org.au/

A History in English "Footprints of the Templers" --

http://www.tempelgesellschaft.de/posts/ ... rs-466.php

Re: German Templers In Palestine

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:58 am
by wmfinck


Love everybody... Believe nothing.
Wonderful.

Re: German Templers In Palestine

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 7:37 am
by Joe
And it ain't any love worth having Bill.
They have sold it all for nought.

Re: German Templers In Palestine

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:58 am
by brucebohn
Wow, "love everybody, believe nothing" is an understatement..
Human predators must salivate reading this mission statement.
Like fleecing sheep afflicted with retardation.
Nothing like a dose of ignorant bliss to complement your suicidal
tendencies..Can just imagine the carnival atmosphere of their
"fellowship" events.. Clowns, one and all.................