From archival information on racial segregation against the inhabitants of the occupied territories.

Returning to the question of the Nazi Third Reich leaders' attitudes towards Christianity, let's recall the words of the Apostle Paul that for a Christian, "there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all" (Colossians 3:11). How can this be reconciled with Nazi racial theories? Of course, it cannot. The practice of their treatment of "non-Aryan" peoples was a complete violation of all moral foundations established both in the New Testament and the Old Testament. How did the Nazis manifest this in practice, and what theory supported it? Let's turn to the materials revealed within the framework of the Global Orthodox project "The Church of the Faithful. Ukraine: Unknown Archival Documents Against the Falsification of the Past."

Everything is permitted with the natives

In 1944, the Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and Their Collaborators and the Damage They Caused to Citizens, Collective Farms, Public Organizations, State Enterprises, and Institutions of the USSR presented a report on the destruction and atrocities committed by the German-Fascist invaders in Kyiv.

The document states that upon entering Ukrainian territory, the German invaders first set about plundering the people's wealth and the property of peaceful residents, which was a direct fulfillment of the task set before them. For example, the Nazi appointee in Ukraine, Reichskommissar Erich Koch, wrote: "The primary concern is to support and secure the extremely large sources of raw materials and food products in this country for the German war economy and command, so that Germany and Europe can wage war for any length of time."

To carry out their plundering plans, the Germans attempted to establish a slave-serf regime in Ukraine. The commission cites a statement by Aviation General Kitzinger from a secret circular of the German rear forces command in Ukraine dated July 18, 1942: "The Ukrainian will remain foreign to us. Any simple, trusting show of interest in Ukrainians and their cultural existence is harmful and weakens those essential traits to which Germany owes its power and greatness."

The Commission's report states that a "gang of bloody Fascist bandits" operated in Kyiv, led by General-Kommissar Magunia, the city's commandant General Eberhardt, SS and police chief Hälterman, Ordnungspolizei General Scheer, Obersturmbannführer Erlinger, and Stadtkreisleiter SA-Brigadeführer Kvitsrau. "Under their leadership, alongside looting, destruction, and systematic extermination of the population of Kyiv, a policy of Germanizing the Ukrainian people was carried out."

The Commission notes in its report that Ukrainian culture in the occupied territory was systematically suppressed and destroyed, and Soviet people were condemned to hunger and death. Signs reading "For Germans only" appeared on the walls of numerous stores and restaurants. The Ukrainian Opera Theater named after Shevchenko, the stadium, and other public institutions were also declared accessible only to Germans. The historical site of Kyiv — Askold's Grave — was turned into a German cemetery by the occupiers.

The state of humiliation of the Ukrainian people is evident from the descriptions given in official Third Reich documents, cited in the Commission's report. For instance, Order No. 184 of August 6, 1942, issued by the city's commandant, Major General Remer, prohibited Germans from inviting "natives" (Ukrainians) to stadiums and restaurants.

The occupiers declared the majority of the population of the occupied territories to be "subhumans." Everything was permitted against them — from the destruction of religious and cultural values, and forced labor, to mass physical extermination. During their stay in Kyiv as masters, the German-Fascist barbarians practically destroyed the main street — Khreshchatyk — with explosions and fires, as well as the best buildings on the adjacent streets: Proreznaya, Institutskaya, and Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya...

The document again mentions the commandant of Kyiv, Major General Remer, who, after repeated forced deportations of Soviet people to German slavery, wrote in an order on October 9, 1942: "The city of Kyiv must again provide at least 7,000 workers for Germany in the coming days..." And as if to confirm this task, Reichskommissar of Ukraine Erich Koch notes with satisfaction in one of the documents: "Thanks to the work of German leaders, we have been able to send hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian workers to Germany, primarily to work in military industry enterprises."

The forced deportation of peaceful citizens into slavery in Germany reached its largest scale: "Fascist slaveholders" forcibly took hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens into German slavery, — the Commission states. "Two years of German-Fascist occupation were filled with continuous mockery of the human dignity of Soviet people; it was a time of hunger and devastation, a time of total lawlessness and defenselessness" (State Archive of the Russian Federation. R-7445. Op. 1. D. 1676. L. 211–212).

Bloody care for racial purity

The Nazis supported their crimes with a "highly scientific" basis. Hitler's racial theory formed the foundation of National Socialist ideology, dividing peoples into pure and inferior. Representatives of the Nordic race were contrasted with "subhumans" (in German, Untermensch).

The widely known theory of "true Aryans" was formulated for the highest German circles by German eugenicist Hans Friedrich Karl Günther. In 1925, he articulated the idea of certain races' inability to develop and work. His pseudoscience was based on dividing people by anthropological traits: skull shape/size, hair/skin/eye color. Within the Caucasian race, Günther identified the so-called "Nordic type," characterizing its representatives as tall, with narrow elongated faces, and fair skin and hair. Naturally, in terms of intellectual potential, this type was placed at the top among all others. These people, according to the author of the theory, lived in northern Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, eastern England, and along the Baltic coast.

The Nazis, seizing upon this "beautiful" idea, called blood mixing a terrible crime. The first Nazi ideologist, Alfred Rosenberg, wrote in his projects that "racial shame" could kill entire civilizations. The state seriously set about building a social hierarchy based on the principle of "blood purity." The goal was to ensure that only the "pure" received proper education and held the top positions in the country, while "mixed" citizens were disenfranchised, and "foreign-blooded" people were either expelled or turned into slaves. Theoretical Nazis saw an anti-German conspiracy everywhere (non-Aryan races, Jews, and even early Christians), which could harm the pure-blooded German society by giving the non-German masses freedom for false equality among the illegitimate. The Slavic peoples of the Soviet Union, poisoned by the "poison of Judeo-Bolshevism," received the greatest contempt from the Führer. On the eve of the invasion of the USSR, the Führer told his associates that the struggle with the Russians was a fight for racial purity. According to the Ost plan, the vast Soviet territories were to be used for German needs, while the Eastern European lands were placed under Mussolini's jurisdiction. Certain groups of Slavs were to be physically exterminated, while the rest, if Hitler's expansionist plans were achieved, were to be deported. The direction of their exile from their native lands — Siberia — was chosen with a clear calculation for the mass death of people even during transportation. The European part of Russia was to be completely Germanized, with no place envisaged for the Slavs living there.

Science and the Church could not be "aligned"

Let's return to the archival evidence of fascist crimes in Ukraine presented earlier. These only illustrate how the racial segregation policy that the Nazis initiated in the 1930s against Jews spread to the Slavic peoples during the years of Soviet occupation, reaching its peak. Labeled as "subhumans," Ukrainians were not only deprived of basic social benefits but were also subject to deportation or extermination. Naturally, the Orthodox Church could not stand aside from this inhumane phenomenon and issued an official protest against fascism in the Decree of the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church "On the Excommunication and Defrocking of Clergy Who Sided with the Fascists" dated September 8, 1943 (more on this can be found here).

Thus, the leaders of the Third Reich had to abandon their claim to the support of church governance and the masses of believers in the occupied territories. And it was in vain that they tried earlier to avoid a confrontation with Christianity, as racists wanted to distance themselves from the religious aspect of the issue, giving the doctrine of racial inequality a purely scientific coloration. Scientists were quick to distance themselves from the dangerous idea, resulting in racism being recognized on a global level as an ideology hostile to both Christianity and science, a demonic manifestation of the fallen souls of only certain representatives of humanity.