Mr. R. Mark Musser - Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo Christian Worldview in the Holocaust

Nazi Oaks

The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust

The Nuremberg Rally Stadium was modeled after the pagan Altar of Pergamum that German archaeologists excavated from Turkey. When they began the excavation in 1878, the altar was embedded in a grove of oaks. The Greek god Zeus was otherwise known as the god of the oaks. In Revelation 2:13, the phrase Satans throne is most probably a reference to the Altar of Pergamum (Photo Credit: bpk, Berlin, Karl Kolb 1938, Art Resource, New York).

By R. Mark Musser

Cover Photo the Nazi Oak that stands just inside the gated entrance of Auschwitz behind the infamous sign which reads, Work makes you free.

Nazi Oaks by R. Mark Musser, M. Div.

Copyright 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 R. Mark Musser

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Published by Mark Musser Ministries

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Originally published and reprinted by Advantage Books in 2010, 2012, and 2013.

This book and parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise) without prior written permission of the author, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

Unless otherwise indicated, Bible quotations are taken from the New American Standard version of the Bible. Copyright (c) 1995 by the Lockman Foundation.

Interior and Cover design by Sasha Yazvetski

Also by R. Mark Musser Wrath or Rest: Saints in the Hands of an Angry God

Dedication & Thanks

This book is dedicated to Charles Clough, the founder of Bible Framework, for his strong encouragement at the very beginning of this project.

A special thanks to Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media. He was a tremendous encouragement for the first edition.

I would like to thank Dr. E. Calvin Beisner for his constant encouragement.

Thanks also to Tom McCabe who volunteered many long hours to help edit the book.

Finally, thanks also to my uncle, Charles Edenstrom, the first enthusiastic reader of my rough draft when it was still in its infancy.

This picture (Courtesy Buchenwald Museum) was taken in 1944 at Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald means Beech Forest. The SS enjoyed a nearby zoo just outside the camp. The tree in the middle of the picture is an oak tree. It was known as Goethes Oak. The famous scholar Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) blazed the trail for the German Romantic movement. Today, Romanticism is known as environmentalism. Goethe spent much time around the environs of this particular oak tree, the destination of his favorite forest retreat. It was located near a wilderness area at the time. When the Nazis cleared the ground for the construction of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, they saved the oak tree. The tree died during an Allied bombing raid. Today the stump still remains at Buchenwald.

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalm 44:22; Romans 8:36

Reader Comments

"Nazi Oaks is one of those important books that is unlikely to get the kind of mainstream media coverage it deserves." Alan Caruba, Warning Signs .

"Nazi Oaks has given me a whole new perspective on religion and the environment." Steve Milloy, Junk Science .

Mr. Musser exposes the powerful religious and philosophical undercurrents that are sweeping the green tsunami over our political landscape. In a day of sound-bite rhetoric and fund-raising memos obsessed with the latest scary story of alleged damage to Mother Nature, we often are too overwhelmed to see the flow from big ideas to big consequences. As one trained in modern environmental studies and experienced in actual environmental policy regulations, Musser ably deconstructs the Third Reichs green connection--a sobering exhibit of what happens when ancient Baalist nature-worship coalesces with modern totalitarian bureaucracy. This is a lesson that biblically green creation care must learn or suffer the consequences of ignoring it. Charles Clough, BS MIT, MS in Atmospheric Science Texas Tech University, ThM Dallas Theological Seminary, Founder of Bible Framework .

Mark Musser has produced a valuable work showing the clear connections between Romanticism, the National Socialist (Nazi) ideology, and the rise of modern ecological religion. Nazi Oaks explains how romantic Mother Earth loving vibes are no guarantee for pleasant outcomes, for mankind or the earth. Dr. James Wanliss, author of the Green Dragon .

Mark Musser's research into the Nazi elements in the environmental movement is unique and absolutely needed to understand current events. He demonstrates that radical environmentalism is an effort to control peoples' lives and that the Nazis used it for that purpose. Ominously, he also proves that the Nazis used environmentalism to target groups of people they wanted to eliminate from the face of the earth. We cannot allow government to acquire this kind of power again. Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media .

Mark has written an invaluable book for anyone who wants to understand how a rejection of the God of Christians and Jews led the Nazis to worship other, grimmer, false gods. It is not a book that radical environmentalists will want you to read, which is precisely why it is indispensable reading for sane and decent people today. Bruce Walker, author and columnist .

Nazi Oaks is a tour de force, patiently accurately unearthing the explicitly anti-Biblical worldview and philosophical roots of modern environmentalism in the renewal of pagan nature worship inherent in German Romanticism a la Goethe and Wagner, racism a la Haeckel, Existentialism a la Heidegger, and Nihilism a la Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. If, as the Bible says, good fruit cannot come from a bad tree, and bad company corrupts good morals, then its time for Christianindeed for allenvironmentalists to take a sober look at the roots and branches of the tree on which they perch. Rev. Mussers book shows both historically and philosophically how and why ecologism bore fruit in Nazi totalitarianism, racism, and the Holocaust, why those dangers remain inherent in modern environmentalism, and why ecologisms worldview remains incompatible with Judeo-Christian morals. It also shows how and why ecologism led then, as it does now, to the corruption of science and its enslavement to political ideology. Those who read Nazi Oaks will be surprised, and shocked, to see how even many of their heroes were nourished by the sap of that tree, and how heavily European and North American environmentalism today remain tied to and ideologically predetermined by the anti-Christian roots from which it sprang. Thoroughly documented and insightfully argued, this book shows all the earmarks of having been written by someone who has become complete master of the ideas and the history he explains. Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Founder and National Spokesman, The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation .

It is a good guide and helpful book. Dr. Martin Erdmann, Verax Institute .

While Musser's well-researched book is jam-packed with information gleaned from dozens of sources, the text is smooth and readable. It explains the Nazis better than a shelf-full of 'official' histories ever could. Mike Gray, American Culture

This text easily passes as a piece of professional academic scholarship. More importantly, Musser definitely contributes something valuable to the conversation about environmentalism with his Pantheism versus Christianity thesis." - William Kay , Environmentalism is Fascism Blog .