German 7th Day Adventists supported an ethnic Volkisch state

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The 7th Day Adventist Church supported the Nazi folkish movement and viewed its members as the best of this ethnic mix.

Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church

HAROLD ALOMÍA

https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=jams

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It went on to support the notion of the Volkisch state, ascribing validity to that idea and saying it was in accordance with biblical principles. In the December 1933 edition of Gegenwartsfragen, one of the Adventist periodicals, it proudly proclaimed that “we are part of this revolution as well—as individual Christians and also as a corporate denominational body” (Blaich 1994:264). This type of enthusiastic approval of the state was not an isolated incident. The acceptance of the Volk concept with its racial undertones, its ideology of ethnic purity, and its implicit proscription of the Jews due to their racial heritage was accepted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church as part of the gospel proclamation. A church writer stated: “The Volk when organized . . . forms a Volksgemeinschaft or ethnic community, and Adventists should be among the very best members of such a community (Sinz 1977:17).